| Summary : Parish church. 11th, early 14th, and early 18th century. Coursed limestone rubble, limestone herringbone, limestone ashlar. Plain tiled double ridge roofs with stone coped gables and small wooden bellcote with slatted sides and lead covered gable. Square plan. Chancel destroyed at dissolution, church reformed in 1630. |
More information : [SK 82798462] St. Mary's Ch. [T.U.] (1)
St Mary's Church, late Decorated, (2) or 13th century, (3) restored in 1894, was once the transept, (4) or nave, (5) of the conventual church of Heynings, or Knaith, a Cistercian nunnery, founded probably c.1150, and suppressed in 1539. (2-5)
Associated earthworks centred SK 826 643. Published 25" survey
revised February 1962 re-revised 28.4.64. (Ditch partly filled). The church is in normal use. (6)
The church has been erronously identified with the Cistercian nunnery
of Heynings, the site of which has now been identified elsewhere in
the parish (SK 88 NW 26). Earthworks south of the church, previously
adduced to support this interpretation are Post-Medieval formal
garden earthworks and the pale of of a contemporary deer park (SK 88 SW 23). Alleged remains incorporated in Knaith Hall have not been
investigated. (7)
Church of St Mary. Parish church, 11th, early 14th and early 18th
centuries. Grade 2*. (8)
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