The Abbey Gatehouse Byland with Wass, England
Listed Building Data
The Abbey Gatehouse has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1149576
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 4 January 1955
- Name
- THE ABBEY GATEHOUSE
- Location
- THE ABBEY GATEHOUSE, OLDSTEAD LANE
- Parish
- Byland with Wass
- District
- Ryedale
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 54761 79025
- Easting
- 454761.3370
- Northing
- 479025.4130
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BYLAND WITH WASS OLDSTEAD LANE SE 57 NW Byland
4/23 The Abbey Gatehouse (previously 4.1.55 listed together with Byland Abbey) GV II
Gatehouse to Byland Abbey (q.v.), now ruinous. Early C13. Limestone ashlar and rubble. Remains of gateway across approach road to abbey, and return wall. Gateway: roll-moulded imposts carrying roll-moulded capitals supporting round arch of 2 hollow-moulded orders with hoodmould. Remains of springer for vault above. Return wall contains pointed doorway of 2 orders with keeled mouldings, now blocked, carried on plain imposts with moulded capitals. This wall is now incorporated into the farm buildings of College Farm (q.v.) which are of no special interest. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: the North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE5474979033
