Of the outer courtyard (of the priory) the gatehouse still remains. This is of C14 date, restored in 1912. (1) (2)
The gatehouse, in outstanding condition and used as parish offices. (3)
The building is early C14, with porch and shrine chapel added later the same century. (4)
Named 'Abbey Gate'. (5)
Early C14 in its structure, mid-C14 in the addition of the precious porch (which gave access to a chapel in the SE angle). The main window above the entrance [is] Perp of seven lights. (6)
Roof over upper hall extensively sampled and dated. 1448-68 (1450's llikely). (7)
The initial phase of building cannot have been too far removed from (1314). (8)
20 timber samples (cores) were taken from Worksop Priory Gatehouse in 1995. Analysis of 9 samples from the main roof gave a felling date of c.1463. 2 samples from the under-croft produced a felling date of c.1389. 2 samples from the extension of the main roof had a felling date of 1661. A single sample from a strut to the main truss of the main roof gave a felling date of late 1666 to early 1667. (9)
(TPAT gives SAM 28, but not on DOE List.)
Worksop Priory gatehouse is a highly significant building of the fourteenth century. In its class, it may not reach the standards of the very finest English monastic gatehouses, such as those which survive, say, at Thornton, or at St Osyth in Essex, or even the smaller but extremely handsome building at Butley, yet this should not be allowed to detract us from its particular qualities. One would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of like structures, certainly when the degree of survival is consid-ered. …three broad phases for the medieval features of the gatehouse. In the centuries after the dis-solution it fell into gradual decline and has since been subject to several quite major programmes of restoration. There is no doubt the building has fallen into a poor state over recent years, its predica-ment not helped by its current vulnerability to vandalism. (8)
See M5159 for priory, M5160 for cross.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

Leaflet (4), Parish file

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

2 BW print, SMR; OS

Listed buildings slides, 7 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

University of Nottingham, 09/05/95, Worksop Priory Gatehouse dendro report (Plan). SNT4257.

J A Renfrew, 2000, The Priory Gatehouse (Unpublished document). SNT4808.

Robert White, Late C19, Worksop Priory Gatehouse (Plan). SNT4328.

<1> Peverel Archaeology Group, 1953, Ann Rept 5, pp 28-9 (Published document). SNT1123.

<2> Knowles D and Hadcock N, 1953, Medieval Religious Houses, p 159 (Published document). SNT869.

<3> Colquhoun FD, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT582.

<4> Bassetlaw Coun. Vol. Service, Information Sheet: The Priory Gatehouse, Worksop (Unpublished document). SNT1466.

<5> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<6> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 388 (Monograph). SNT4.

<7> Thoroton Society, 1995, TTS, p 49 (Published document). SNT1525.

<8> Lea R and Robinson DM, 2000, Worksop Priory Gatehouse, Notts, p 30 (Published document). SNT1777.

<9> Nottingham Tree Ring Dating Laboratory, 1995, Worksop Priory Gatehouse - Dendro Report (Unpublished document). SNT5141.