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Hirst Priory
Hirst Priory is an 18th-century country house in Belton on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The current house was built on the site of a 12th-century Augustinian priory (Hirst Priory).[citation needed]
Hirst Priory served as a family residence first for the Stovin family, and later for the Lister family in the 19th century. In 1903, the property was purchased by D. Stubley for £18,000. In the early 1990s, a development group purchased Hirst Priory in order to develop a hotel and leisure complex, but these plans were abandoned. In 2014, Hirst Priory was converted to a wedding and events venue, with renovation work carried out to ensure the preservation of the Grade II listed building.[citation needed]
Hirst Priory is a red brick-built structure consisting of a partial subterranean basement, ground floor, first-floor, and second-floor loft space which previously served as servants' quarters.
The house was built in two stages, with the older of the two parts containing a partially subterranean brick-vaulted basement. The 19th-century extension added another more standard basement area. This part of the basement has a hand wheel water pump, an end room with barred windows, and a reinforced door reputed to have served as a temporary holding cell for the local magistrates.[citation needed]
All the rooms, including the loft and the basement extension, have open hearths. The northwest first-floor corner room also includes a bread oven. Under the courtyard on the west side of the building is a large vaulted and vented brick storage area, most likely used for keeping fuel stores dry. The building is only accessible via raised entrances with steps to ensure the ground floor is well above any potential flood level.[citation needed]
Hirst Priory was the site of Augustinian priory cell in Nostell, founded by Nigel d'Albini in the early 12th century as Hyrst Priory. It was not conventual, and was likely intended for one or two canons as a supervising estate of Nostell. It was dissolved c. 1540. A rectangular moat and buildings are shown on an "ancient map" and the Ordnance Survey 1-inch first edition map of 1824. "The moat is still perfect on the NE and W, and enclosed about half an acre of ground, an old barbary tree marks the place where the chapel stood; and at a short distance is the holy pond, which seems to have been a well dug to some small spring, which was descended by a few steps, of these there are some remains."
The present building is Georgian-Victorian, and part of the moat survives, possibly altered by later landscaping.
Founded before 1135 and dissolved in 1539, the Hirst Augustinian cell was dependent on Nostell. The priory of St. Mary was built as a dependency of Nostell by Nigel D'Albini, apparently in the reign of Henry I (Dugdale's Monasticon). The canon in charge may have had two companions at first, to comply with the regulations; but from the 14th century, there was probably only one canon with 1–2 servants, supervising the estate of Nostell.
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Hirst Priory
Hirst Priory is an 18th-century country house in Belton on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The current house was built on the site of a 12th-century Augustinian priory (Hirst Priory).[citation needed]
Hirst Priory served as a family residence first for the Stovin family, and later for the Lister family in the 19th century. In 1903, the property was purchased by D. Stubley for £18,000. In the early 1990s, a development group purchased Hirst Priory in order to develop a hotel and leisure complex, but these plans were abandoned. In 2014, Hirst Priory was converted to a wedding and events venue, with renovation work carried out to ensure the preservation of the Grade II listed building.[citation needed]
Hirst Priory is a red brick-built structure consisting of a partial subterranean basement, ground floor, first-floor, and second-floor loft space which previously served as servants' quarters.
The house was built in two stages, with the older of the two parts containing a partially subterranean brick-vaulted basement. The 19th-century extension added another more standard basement area. This part of the basement has a hand wheel water pump, an end room with barred windows, and a reinforced door reputed to have served as a temporary holding cell for the local magistrates.[citation needed]
All the rooms, including the loft and the basement extension, have open hearths. The northwest first-floor corner room also includes a bread oven. Under the courtyard on the west side of the building is a large vaulted and vented brick storage area, most likely used for keeping fuel stores dry. The building is only accessible via raised entrances with steps to ensure the ground floor is well above any potential flood level.[citation needed]
Hirst Priory was the site of Augustinian priory cell in Nostell, founded by Nigel d'Albini in the early 12th century as Hyrst Priory. It was not conventual, and was likely intended for one or two canons as a supervising estate of Nostell. It was dissolved c. 1540. A rectangular moat and buildings are shown on an "ancient map" and the Ordnance Survey 1-inch first edition map of 1824. "The moat is still perfect on the NE and W, and enclosed about half an acre of ground, an old barbary tree marks the place where the chapel stood; and at a short distance is the holy pond, which seems to have been a well dug to some small spring, which was descended by a few steps, of these there are some remains."
The present building is Georgian-Victorian, and part of the moat survives, possibly altered by later landscaping.
Founded before 1135 and dissolved in 1539, the Hirst Augustinian cell was dependent on Nostell. The priory of St. Mary was built as a dependency of Nostell by Nigel D'Albini, apparently in the reign of Henry I (Dugdale's Monasticon). The canon in charge may have had two companions at first, to comply with the regulations; but from the 14th century, there was probably only one canon with 1–2 servants, supervising the estate of Nostell.
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