Latitude: 54.879 / 54°52'44"N
Longitude: -2.8306 / 2°49'50"W
OS Eastings: 346804
OS Northings: 554121
OS Grid: NY468541
Mapcode National: GBR 8DN0.ZT
Mapcode Global: WH804.HM9J
Plus Code: 9C6VV5H9+JQ
Entry Name: Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
Listing Date: 1 April 1957
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1087695
English Heritage Legacy ID: 77770
ID on this website: 101087695
Location: Wetheral, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA4
County: Cumberland
District: Carlisle
Civil Parish: Wetheral
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Wetheral Holy Trinity and St Constantine
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Gatehouse
WETHERAL WETHERAL NY 4654
14/189 Wetheral Priory 1. 4.57. Gatehouse
I
Gatehouse tower. C14, for Benedictine Priory of Wetheral. Dressed red sandstone walls with moulded dressings and stone-slate replacement roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Chamfered plinth course and moulded string-course to each storey, with battlemented parapet. Large round-headed moulded entrance arch with barrel-vaulted passage. Mullioned windows of 2 lights with chamfered dressings, hood moulds and trefoil cusped heads above entrance: windows in other elevations are similar, but of one light. Label moulds to sides show single storey roof line of original adjoining buildings now demolished. Internal spiral staircase gives access to floors and roof. Priory was founded c1100, but the gatehouse represents a later rebuilding, probably after the destruction of the buildings following successive border raids. Scheduled A.M. See, J.H. Martindale, The Priory of Wetheral, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland, Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, vol xxii, p.239-251.
Listing NGR: NY4680454120
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