Abbey Precinct Wall London, England
Listed Building Data
Abbey Precinct Wall has been designated a Grade I 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1357235
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 24 February 1958
- Name
- ABBEY PRECINCT WALL
- Location
- ABBEY PRECINCT WALL, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1ABBEY PRECINCT WALL, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30148 79337
- Easting
- 530148.3650
- Northing
- 179336.7870
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TO 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/20 (ABBEY PRECINCT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) 24.2.58 Abbey Precinct Wall
G.V. I
Precinct wall. Early medieval and c.1374 with later additions and alterations. 20 ft high wall of Kentish Ragstone rubble with ashlar below high tide level along the former river front, weathered brick coping. The wall can be traced above ground level eastwards from the left hand part of the ground floor of No. 30 Great College Street, free standing along the south and east sides of the Abbey or Canons' Garden. The re-entrant opposite the Jewel Tower was built c.1374-76 and is incorporated into No. 4 and the otherwise post war rebuilt No. 3 Little Cloisters. The early wall returns westwards to the south of the Chapter House and is incorporated into the back north elevation of Nos. 2, 2A, 2B and No. 3 Little Cloisters with rebuilt octagonal stone tower to rear of No. 1. To Great College Street there are late medieval 5-centred arched doorways and later C.18 and C.19 square headed doorways inserted.
R.C.H.M.
Listing NGR: TQ3014879336
