Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
26764
Building Number
Grade
I
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/07/2002
Date of Amendment
17/07/2002
Name of Property
Refectory at Penmon Priory
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llangoed
Town
Locality
Penmon
Easting
263044
Northing
380709
Street Side
Location
Slightly set back from the N side of a country road leading to the SE tip of the island at Black Point, or Trwyn Du, Penmon. The Refectory forms the S side of a cloister yard; abutted by the Priory house at the NW corner.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Linear range of monastic buildings, probably contemporary with the chancel of the adjacent church erected in the first half of the C13. Comprising refectory with cellar below and dormitory above and extended by the addition of a warming room and upper rooms at the E end in early C16.
Exterior
The substantial, roofless, remains of a 3-storey range of monastic buildings built of local rubble masonry with limestone dressings and large boulders as quoins. The refectory is a 5-window range with 3 narrow lights to the dormitory and 3 openings to the cellars below; a doorway to the L and narrow windows with deep slayed reveals to the right. The L (W) return has a tall lancet window in the gable apex and 2 rectangular lights to the refectory. A blocked arched window can be seen from the cloister courtyard to the N.
The warming room addition is built to the E end and has similarly detailed cellar openings with doorway to the R. There is a single 1st floor window of paired arched lights and square headed openings to each floor in the E gable with doveholes in the gable apex.
Interior
The position of each floor is clearly visible in the masonry inside the building; shown as ledges along the lateral walls and joist holes. The warming room block retains lower and 1st floor fireplaces; the 1st floor has square jambs and an elliptical arch, a small carved bust on the L (W) jamb. To the NE corner is a small doorway to a narrow passage to a garderobe with corbelled vault and blocked loop in the E wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as the substantial remains of a predominantly C13 monastic building, part of an important monastic estate including the adjacent Priory Church, and other conventual buildings, the nearby holy well and cell and also the monastic remains at Ynys Seiriol.
Ancient Monument No 1/1838/AN 027 (ANG) G.
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