Priory Gatehouse, Cornworthy
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Priory Gatehouse, Cornworthy
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 17 Feb 2015
The grade I listed gatehouse http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1291588&searchtype=mapsearch is all that remains (above ground) of an Augustinian priory. "Cornworthy Priory was the most westerly and isolated of the houses founded specifically for nuns in England" http://list.english-heritage.org.uk /resultsingle.aspx?uid=1008673&searchtype=mapsearch " The main southern passage for mounted travellers and wheeled vehicles has a tunnel vault ... the smaller pedestrian passage has a ribbed vault" . See also Image, taken from the other side.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.388445
Longitude
-3.658871