Priory Gatehouse, Usk

The Priory Gatehouse, Usk
General information
Architectural style medieval
Town or city Usk
Country Wales
Coordinates 51°42′09″N 2°54′03″W / 51.70244°N 2.90096°WCoordinates: 51°42′09″N 2°54′03″W / 51.70244°N 2.90096°W
Designations Grade I listed

The Priory Gatehouse in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a surviving fragment of a Benedictine priory founded around 1135 and dissolved in 1536.[1] It stands beside the main entrance to the churchyard. It is a Grade I listed building.[2]

The gatehouse is of two storeys, with gables and wide inner and outer arches.[3] The style of the windows suggests a "sixteenth century date, possibly even post-Dissolution".[3]

Notes

  1. "PRIORY GATEHOUSE, USK | Site Details". Coflein. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. Good Stuff IT Services (1953-02-16). "The Priory Gatehouse - Usk - Monmouthshire - Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. 3.0 3.1 The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, page 587

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