Abbeys & priories · East of England
Lavenham Priory
Lavenham Priory — a Grade I-listed abbey in england-east, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
About
Lavenham Priory is a Grade I-listed building in england-east, United Kingdom. Grade I status is conferred by Historic England (or Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland or NIEA equivalents) on buildings of exceptional national interest. See the linked Wikipedia article for full historical and architectural details.
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From the Wikipedia article
Lavenham Priory is a 13th-century Grade I listed building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Aubrey de Vere I was the Lord of the Manor, according to the Domesday Book of 1086. In the early 13th Century De Vere gifted the property to an Order of Benedictine Monks. It was a monastic house until probably the early part of the 15th Century, after which it was acquired by Roger Ruggles - who made a fortune from the cloth industry. It is rumoured that Henry VIII's Comptroller was dispatched to Lavenham (and specifically to Lavenham Priory) and fined the then owner the equivalent today of £1 million for "displaying too much ostentatious wealth". This may explain the Tudor pargeting on the front of the building. For the past 20 years Lavenham Priory has operated as a boutique guest house.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 52.1073, 0.7965
- Address
- Market Place, Sudbury, CO10 9QZ
- Official site
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6502556 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lavenham Priory (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lavenham Priory?
- Lavenham Priory is in East of England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.1073°, 0.7965°.
- Is Lavenham Priory a listed building?
- Lavenham Priory carries the heritage designation "Grade I" — a protective status under UK heritage law.