List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
List Entry Number: 1126476
Location
PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, CHURCH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: East Cambridgeshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Isleham
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 01-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment: 17-Nov-1983
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 48821
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Details
TL 6474 ISLEHAM CHURCH STREET
(North Side)
14/10 Priory Church of
St. Margaret of Antioch
/formerly listed as
Priory (now barn)7
1.12.51
I
A small Benedictine priory of c.1080-90 built by Count John and
given to the abbey of St. Jacut in Brittany. Later it was used
as a barn and now it is in the care of the Department of the
Environment. Although restoration has taken place, the priory
is substantially intact and remains a rare example of Romanesque
work. The walls are principally of clunch laid in herringbone
pattern with Barnack limestone plinth and dressings to door and
window openings. The roofs have been rebuilt and that of the
nave has been raised. Plan of nave, choir and apsed sanctuary,
originally with a semi-domical roof. The west end has two C16
buttresses of flint with red brick quoins and a single round-
headed lancet window. The barn doors in the north and south
walls of the nave are also probably of the C16. The south
doorway of the choir and most of the window openings are C13
with Caernarvon heads. The apse has original pilaster
buttresses of Barnack. Interior. Round-headed choir arch,
double recessed and unmoulded, on responds each with two
attached half round columns with cushion capitals and splayed
bases. Vacant nook shafts on west side. Sanctuary arch has
been demolished but the rectangular piers have survived with
moulded capitals and bases. At the west end of the nave there
are three bulls eye window openings.
RCHM: Record Card.
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.416.
Listing NGR: TL6424574349
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 416
Map
National Grid Reference: TL 64245 74349
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