Notley Abbey: an Augustinian abbey and associated post-Dissolution dovecote

Heritage listing

Details Notley Abbey is located some 600m to the north west of the A418 Aylesbury Road, between the north bank of the River Thame and Notley Farm. The monument is in two areas of protection. The first includes the buried remains of the abbey church, conventual buildings and other features within the area of the inner precinct; a group of fishponds and leats extending to the north east, and a series of earthworks representing further buildings and related structures adjacent to the precinct to the south west. The second area includes an elaborate 16th or early 17th century dovecote, situated on the hillside to the north of the abbey. The abbey church and the majority of the original abbey buildings survive only as buried remains, although portions of the claustral range (which formed a square to the south of the church) were retained within the house and outbuildings of a post-Dissolution farm - now Notley Abbey House. The enclosing wall at Notley Abbey House is Listed Grade 1 and follows the line of the east range of the cloister, incorporating stones probably of 13th century origin. The house itself, which stands some 100m north west of the Thame, is excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath it is included. The house was adapted from the abbot's lodgings and guest house, which were constructed in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and stood toward the north west corner of the claustral range. The present house, a Grade I Listed Building, contains elements of the abbot's hall, parlour and a western solar wing. The attached western arm of the cloisters has largely been rebuilt as a long service wing, although the east wall and the single doorway which it contains, survive from the original structure. The south wing, formerly the refectory, kitchens, warmi

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.