Wenlock Priory - A Final Visit

One last visit to Wenlock Priory now, and I thought I'd feature some of the ancillary structures that still survive, scattered around in the vicinity of the priory.

The first is a gatehouse, which was once incorporated into the boundary walls that enclosed the monastic precinct.  In the background, the tower of the parish church is just visible - that's somewhere we'll be returning to very soon!

There's the remains of a tall, two storey wall abutting the building, and a steeply pitched raggle marking a former roofline, which shows where the gatehouse once formed one structure in a larger range.

Inside the monastic precinct, the structure that once housed the infirmary remains in excellent condition.  The original twelfth century structure was one storey in height - the first and second floors were added at a later date, and I would suspect that the fact that Pinnell is coy about when these upper floors were added, suggests that the experts haven't a clue when these alterations might have taken place.  I'm assuming the building reached its final form within the medieval building - there's nothing about the architecture that screams TUDOR!!! so that seems like a reasonable assumption:-

Where's Dan Cruikshank when you need him?  I'm sure he'd be delighted to try and give us an answer to this conundrum...