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Ankerwyke Priory Ruins

A Grade II Listed Building in Wraysbury, Windsor and Maidenhead

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4442 / 51°26'39"N

Longitude: -0.5566 / 0°33'23"W

OS Eastings: 500410

OS Northings: 172679

OS Grid: TQ004726

Mapcode National: GBR F91.J27

Mapcode Global: VHFTH.9YMR

Plus Code: 9C3XCCVV+M9

Entry Name: Ankerwyke Priory Ruins

Listing Date: 23 September 1955

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1319364

English Heritage Legacy ID: 40703

ID on this website: 101319364

Location: Runnymede, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, TW19

County: Windsor and Maidenhead

Civil Parish: Wraysbury

Built-Up Area: Wraysbury

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Wraysbury

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Summary


C13 and C15 ruins of Ankerwyke Priory.

Description


C13 and C15. Two short lengths of two storey chalk rubble wall, one L-plan other partly of red brick. Three windows of C13, C14 and C15.

VCH 111 p.321 RCHM.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2015

History


Ankerwyke Priory, a Benedictine nunnery lies across the River Thames from Runnymede. The Priory was founded in the late C12 and was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’, was sealed at Runnymede on 15th June 1215. This was an agreement between King John and his barons and clergy which, for the first time, made the monarch subject to the laws of the land. It also gave free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Over the subsequent 800 years it has influenced many constitutional documents including the United States’ Bill of Rights.

Runnymede today is a memorial landscape to the on-going struggle for democracy and liberty.

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