Winnold House

The St Winwaloe's Priory was founded by the earls of Clare during the reign of Richard I in the late twelfth century. It was dedicated to Winwaloe (also known as Guenolo or Winnold), a Breton saint who flourished about 550 CE, and whose body was enshrined in the Abbey of St Salvius and St Winwaloe, Monsterol (now Montreuil-sur-Mer) in the diocese of Amiens in France. It was an alien priory of Monsterol. The earliest extant deed of the priory is one of 1199, whereby L., prior of St Winwaloe, with the consent and advice of his brother, Remigius, abbot of Monsterol, granted a toft and eleven acres to Robert de Stradesete. In 1270, there was an exchange of lands in Wereham between the abbot and…

The priory's stonework is ashlar and coping, and the roof is composed of slate. South front of two storeys in two bays. 20th-century door and porch to left. Windows are 3-light cross casements under re-used square hoods on head stops. Triangular stops to first floor casements. Moulded ashlar eaves cornice below gabled roof with 19th-century internal end stacks carrying twin octagonal gault brick flues. Gable ends on kneelers. East wall with remains of external stack, flat buttress to left and clasping buttress to right, the latter being the remains of a 12th-century pier: single shaft to left and on north face multi-shafted above set-off. Two set-offs to the east gable wall, remains of one…