Castle Acre Priory

Prior's Chapel .

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Prior's lodging viewed from the cloister .

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Ruins of the priory church seen from the cloister .

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The interior of the east range looking northward . As originally built , the remainder of the east range contained two vast rooms - the monks' dormitory above and a long vaulted room below , both now open to the sky .

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Undercroft

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Remains of ... latrine block . The main chancel flowed on westwards to power watermill , but the smaller one (invisible now) carrying waste took a separate course straight back to the river Nar .

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In the 1080s , William de Warenne , a Norman knight settled a small band of monks near his Norfolk home . His son gave the Castle Acre monks a new site , where , in about 1090 the existing buildings were begun .

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Castle Acre was the creation of the Warenne family , established in England by William de Warenne , a veteran of battle of Hastings . William founded the castle , and his son and descendants founded the priory on its existing site , laid out the town , and improved them over successive centuries . By the late Middle Ages the castle had been abandoned , and in 1537 the priory was suppressed , shattering the local economy but ensuring that the essentials of 12th-century Castle Acre remain with us today .

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