More information : TF 8384 4277 Remains of St Mary's Friary (NR) (Carmelite) (1)
House of Carmelite Friars at Burnham Norton founded 1242-7 and dissolved in 1538. At their foundation they occupied a site called Bradmer from which they moved in 1253 (2).
Ruins of a friary, dedicated to St Mary, consisting of a gate-house and a portion of the west end of the friary. The foundations of the whole building can be easily traced. (3)
Large quantity of friary building material re-used to build house north of the ruins (TF 83834282)
West end of church with 14th century doorway. Cottage to north ?17th century with some 14th century stone work included. Ruins and cottage Grade I. (4)
Extant remains of the Friary comprise a small buttressed gate-house, to the immediate east the entire west wall of the church is standing to its original height, architecture is contemporary with the gate-house; the plan of the church can be clearly traced as grassed walling varying in height from ground level to 0.7m; the plan shows the church to have originally had a narrow south aisle. (5)
Ancillary buildings can also be traced by either solid or grassed over walling, now portrayable as a bank. The site is under a thick and high nettle growth, perhaps obliterating other building lines. A fragment of the perimeter wall is extant adjacent to the gate-house and other stretches can be traced to the north-east and east of the building complex. The area contained by the perimeter is under pasture, there is an abundant nettle spread but no further buildings could be traced nor are there contemporary earthworks; and the wall, in places, achieves a max height of 2.4m with a general width of 0.6m. Friary Cottages are constructed primarily with material filched from the Friary, in themselves they are not outstanding. See photographs. Resurveyed on MSD.
Carmelite Friary ruins. First Carmelite foundation (1241) after expulsion (1238) from Mount Carmel in Sinai. Detached gable wall. C14, decorated flint with cut stone dressings. Grade II* (see list for details) (6)
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