Type

Monument

Title / Name

The Priory or Marlborough Whitefriars

Summary

A medieval priory of the White Friars or Carmelites.

CARMELITE FRIARY, Medieval (1066 to 1539)

Source Detail: Waylen, James, 1854

Title: A History Military and Municipal of the Town of Marlborough

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI11232

Description: In 1820 the old building was finally demolished and a dwelling house, called the 'Priory', was erected on part of the original site using some of the old materials including a deep recessed window.

Source Detail: Sewell, E.R.A., 1938

Title: Excavations at St Margaret's Priory, Marlborough

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI12190

Additional Information: Marlborough College Natural History Society Report 87

Description: An excavation was carried out to identify the location of a road that might have run through the Priory grounds. Some evidence of Medieval building foundations, tiled floors and four human burials in a possible cemetery, were found but not the road.

Source Detail: Knowles, D. + Hadcock, N., 1953

Title: Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales - 1953

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI12711

Description: A house of the White Friars or Carmelites was founded in AD1316. There were five friars at its dissolution in 1538. The building was finally demolished in 1820.

Source Detail: Pevsner, N., 1963

Title: The Buildings of England, Wiltshire (1963 Edition)

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI13567

Source Detail: Phillips, B., 2002

Title: St Martin's Mews, Marlborough

Summary: Excavation - Full report Source ID: SWI24568

Description: Wall foundation trenching in 2002 revealed four deep grave pits that contained coffined adult skeletons. Other shallower burials were observed. The graves cut the floor of a building , which sealed a humus layer containing late thirteenth or early fourteenth century pottery sherds. Structural debris overlay the floor and included terracotta floor and roof tile fragments. Two further burials in a shallower grave cut were of a young female adult apparently associated with a six-month old child burial. The initial feature of the thirteenth century is a extensive flat-bottomed hollow, having dished sides and measuring c4.5m by 4.3m by 0.35m deep. There followed a period when humus built up, and animal bone and a few pottery sherds indicated a date of the thirteenth or early 14th century for its formation. Over this a building was erected having chalk and flint packing laid to support its floor. Mortar deposited on the packing and terracotta tile fragments suggest it may have been a tiled floor. It is not clear whether the graves and the rubbish /latrine pit were cut within the building or after its demolition. A later well was constructed possibly within a building. Pottery included wares from the Cricklade area, from Nash Hill and from the Kennet Valley. Four fragments of terracotta tiles were recovered, three of which overlay the mortar bedding of the medieval building. Two retained their glazed surface. Roofing tile fragments were also recovered including ridge tiles.

Source Detail: National Monuments Record, 1974

Title: List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of Kennet - 1974

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI26238

Additional Information: English Heritage 694

Source Detail: Historic England, Various

Title: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) Entry

Summary: Data held by the NRHE database. The data is made available and licenced under the Open Government Licence version 3. Source ID: SWI29488

Description: Much of the present building, still called "Priory", is covered in ivy and because of this and the general condition of the stonework it is impossible to differentiate between the C19 building and any re-used earlier work (Field Investigators Comments: F1 ANK 21-AUG-69).

Source Detail: Ordnance Survey, 1900

Title: Ordnance Survey 1:2500 Map - 1900

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI29823

Additional Information: 1:2500

Description: (SU 18756897) Priory on Site of (NAT) Priory (NR) (White Friars) (NAT).

Source Detail: Knowles, D. + Hadcock, N., 1971

Title: Medieval religious houses in England and Wales - 1971

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI30549