Description

TQ 00 NW LYMINSTER ARUNDEL ROAD,
9/190 CROSSBUSH
12.10.54
Priory Farmhouse
[formerly
listed as Priory
Farmhouse
(incorporating remains
of Calcetto Priory)]

II*

Queen Adelisa, the widow of Henry I, who married as her second husband William de
Albini, Earl of Arundel, founded a small house here for Augustinian Canons at some
time before 1151. It was dedicated to St Bartholomew and was known as the Priory de
Calceto or of the Causeway. It was suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey in 1524. Of the
buildings, a portion of a square tower remains, which is now a farmhouse of which the
name is spelled Calcetto with two "ts". Square C13 building of stone rubble and
flints with red brick with dressings and 2 stone buttresses on the south west side.
Pyramidal tiled roof. Casement windows. 3 s, 3 w. On the south east a modern addition
of 2 s, and 1 w has been made and on the north west a similar addition of 1 s with a
penthouse roof.

Listing NGR: TQ0247406337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553484

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