Landmark · England · Partial ruin
Dunwich
The site is the remains of Greyfriars, a Franciscan friary at Dunwich whose surviving elements include part of the refectory and a 14th-century gateway within an enclosing stone wall. Once part of a substantial medieval port town, the friary flourished until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 and now stands as ruins in a coastal field.
Its prime
1500
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1500
What Dunwich looked like in its prime.
Set in a flat grassy coastal field, the friary complex in its prime is a compact group of stone-built monastic ranges enclosed by a low coursed-stone boundary wall. The longest surviving block is the refectory: a long rectangular stone hall punctured by tall arched openings and regular window apertures beneath a pitched roof. The main 14th-century entrance is a robust stone gateway leading into a paved precinct, all backed by a belt of trees toward the shore.
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