More information : [TA 13840849] Grange [GT] (Site of). (1)
Great Limber, dependent on the Cistercian Abbey of Aunay-sur-Odon, was perhaps a grange rather than a priory. Afterwards appropriated to the Carthusian Abbey of St Anne. In existence before 1157 and dissolved in 1393. (2-4)
Extensive earthworks which occupy the site have been re-surveyed at 1:2500. Adjacent early fields and roads are more probably associated with the village of Great Limber than with the monastic complex. (5)
TA 1381 0854. Camera of the Knights Hospitallers, medieval
settlement and cultivation remains, post-medieval house and gardens. Scheduled RSM no. 22688. [See also source 9 below for online access to information about this Designation]. (6)
A rectangular enclosure, which overlies the south-eastern corner of the extensive settlement remains (recorded as TA 10 NW 11) referred to here by Authorities 5-6, was seen as an earthwork and mapped from good quality air photographs. The substantially embanked enclosure, 95m by 80m, overlies earlier closes and has a large rectangular enclosure, possibly a barn, in the south-east corner. It has been suggested that these later features may be connected with the holding by the Templars (sic) and Hospitallers (7a), whilst a compact arrangement of rectilinear, conjoined enlosures which also lies within the enclosure, probably represents the ground plan of a sizeable Post Medieval house. Centred at TA 1384 0849
(Morph No. LI.282.1.6-8)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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Additional reference. (8)
At the time of amending this record in 2012, online access to the designation information (i.e. the scheduling noted above in source 6) is available through the National Heritage List for England. (9) |