Wenlock Priory - A Final Visit
Nov. 28th, 2011 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesOne 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!
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...
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:-
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...
