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Tintern Abbey Guest House

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00718g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Tintern
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : SO53200002
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval GUEST HOUSE

Summary :
Building foundations, possibly including the remains of the guest house, were found to the west of the Abbey church.

Description :
Building foundations, possibly including the remains of the guest house, found to the west of the Abbey church.

These are situated in the outer precinct. The principal remains are those of an aisled hall, and of the undercroft of a long, narrow range of six bays with a row of octagonal piers down the middle; this was presumably the undercroft to the domitory. The hall had four bays. There is also the remains of a building of at least two storeys with rectangular windows.

Sources :
Bowden, R. and Roberts, R. , 2012 , Monastic Sites in Glamorgan and Gwent
Courtney, P , 1989 , Excavations in the outer precinct of Tintern Abbey , Medieval Archaeology : 33 : 99-143
Newman, J , 2000 , The buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire
Robinson, D. M. , 2006 , The Cistercians in Wales: Architecture and Archaeology 1130-1540

Events :
E000294 : Tintern Abbey (year : 1980)
E001386 : Early medieval ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales desk based assessment (year : 2003)
E002119 : Assessment of Monastic Sites in Glamorgan and Gwent (year : 2012)
E002126 : Tintern Abbey (year : 2011)
E008772 : GGAT52: Monmouthshire Historic Settlements, Trellech & Usk (year : 1997)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 00713g

Compiled date : 02-03-1988


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