The Priory Gatehouse in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a surviving fragment of a Benedictine priory founded around 1135 and dissolved in 1536.[1] It stands beside the main entrance to the churchyard. It is a Grade I listed building.[2]

The Priory Gatehouse, Usk
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Interactive map of the The Priory Gatehouse, Usk area
General information
Architectural style
medieval
LocationUsk, Wales
Coordinates51°42′09″N 2°54′03″W / 51.70244°N 2.90096°W / 51.70244; -2.90096
Design and construction
DesignationsGrade I listed

The gatehouse is of two storeys, with gables and wide inner and outer arches. The style of the windows suggests a "sixteenth century date, possibly even post-Dissolution".[3]

Notes

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  1. "Priory Gatehouse, Usk (20702)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  2. Cadw (16 February 1953). "Priory Gatehouse, Usk (2126)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  3. Newman 2000, p. 587.

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