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Priory Gatehouse, Usk

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Architectural style
  
medieval

Designations
  
Grade I listed

Country
  
Wales

Town or city
  
Usk

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

Map of Priory Gatehouse, Usk, UK

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".

References

Priory Gatehouse, Usk Wikipedia