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Description: | Premonstratenian Abbey founded in 1232 by Peter de Roches, Bishop of Winchester, for Premonstratensian canons. The history of the abbey was uneventful and at the supression of the monasteries in 1537 the monastic estate passed to Thomas Wriothesley, who by 1542, had converted the monastic buildings into the residence known as 'Palace House'. This survived little altered until the greater part of it was demolished in 1781. The surviving remains of the abbey include the cloister, used in the 16th century as the courtyard of the country house, and the nave of the church which became its gatehouse. The four towers of the gatehouse form the most visually impressive element of the ruins. The position of the frater, chapter house, library and the quire of the church are also known from archaeological investigations carried out by Sir William St John Hope in the early 20th century and are largely enclosed within a 16th century boundary wall. To the northwest of the abbey complex is a line of four (originally five) medieval fishponds which date shortly after the foundation of the abbey in the 13th century. Drains leading to the abbey and a pondside building are also of 13th century date. | Subjects: | Chapter House Defence Country House Religious Ritual And Funerary Courtyard Domestic Cloister Gatehouse Agriculture And Subsistence Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces Education Fishpond Recreational Library Premonstratensian Monastery Refectory Abbey Loopholed Wall Church Water Supply And Drainage Drain | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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