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Hatfield Broad Oak Priory is a Benedictine monastery founded in the eleventh century in Essex, established as a daughter house of the abbey of Saint-Denis in France. The priory remained an important religious community throughout the medieval period until its dissolution during the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Substantial remains of the priory church and claustral buildings survive on the site, including significant fragments of the romanesque architecture characteristic of Norman monastic foundations. The ruins testify to the scale and architectural sophistication of this once-thriving monastic establishment in medieval Essex.
Hatfield Broad Oak Priory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002148. View the official record →
Hatfield Broad Oak Priory is a Benedictine monastery founded in the eleventh century in Essex, established as a daughter house of the abbey of Saint-Denis in France. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002148.
Hatfield Broad Oak Priory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002148.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site at Pierce Williams (1.4 km), The Ryes moated site (1.9 km), Lea Hall moated site (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hatfield Broad Oak Priory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hatfield Broad Oak Priory stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.