Halesowen Abbey

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN

understanding heritage matters

with Michelle Eaton and Stuart C Palmer

Ian Greig MA MIfA

Report No 1315 Draft 1.0 April 2013

HALESOWEN
456) ) ne r Way(A Mano y Manor La erl (Form

To Manor Lane/Way

Manor Abbey Farm

Sites of important local nature conservation Landscape Heritage Area Scheduled Monument Former Scheduled area Possible outer precinct boundary according to: Marsden (1986, g 19) Brown (2005, g 13) Litherland and Moscrop ( g 23) 0 100 200m

456) ay(A ane) or W Man Manor L erly (Form

425-003

425-004

425-001

425-001 425-002

425-001 AMP number Standing masonry Lease-car park Pedestrian access 0 100m Vehicle and pedestrian access Vehicle and pedestrian access (works only) Maintenance and sca olding rights Maintenance and sca olding rights and hut/toilets

Fig 2: Guardianship and lease details

HALESOWEN
456) ) ne r Way(A Mano y Manor La rl e (Form
1794 7246 7245 7371 12902 12903 6181 12918 12905 12778 12782

LAPAL
eS an lL pa La th ou
4323 12920 12779 12030

Illey Brook

4329 873 12801

12788 12813

7406 12904 12787 12781 1796

12722 12641 10595 8541 12794

Scheduled Monument

12909 12792 12795 12780 12783

12906 12699

12784 12923 4136 12369 12264 12786 12368 12440 12736 12460

12919 12724

12373

12374 12785

12907 12789

ill B 4551

4871 12790 4137 4138 4139 12443 4140 12726 12387 12458 12389 12370 1793 12388 12718 12370 12507 12295 12296 12791 12727 12508 12391 12811 12810 12927 12366 12390 12371 12365 12360 12372 12924 1795 12297 12908 4326 12690 12364 12367 12363

Gran

ge H

12723

4482

8539 12698

M5

100

500m

ILLEY

Fig 3: Dudley Historic Environment Record data

Fig 4: Engraving of Halesowen Abbey by S & N Buck, 1731

Scheduled Monument

Fig 5: Halesowen (Lapal township) tithe map, 1841

Scheduled Monument

Fig 6: Detail from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1885

Scheduled Monument

6: Detail from Ordnance Survey map of 1885 Fig Fig 7: Detail from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1904

Scheduled Monument

Fig 8: Detail from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1918

Scheduled Monument

Fig 9: Detail from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1948

Scheduled Monument

Fig 10: Detail from Ordnance Survey map of 1:2500, 1971

Scheduled Monument

100

200m

Fig 11: Detail from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 2013

Fig 12: Air photograph from 1948 showing sports stadium under construction and infilling of former ponds in the field between the stadium and the farm access (NMR ref RAF/541/15 Lib No 855 Frame 4013)

Fig 13: Air photograph, 1952, looking south west (NMR ref CAP 8056 frame 43)

In rmary

Existing building Areas of past excavations (after Marsden 1986 g 12) Existing standing medieval wall Previoulsy recorded medieval walls or foundations 2007 evaluation 2003 watching brief Conjectural Possible monastic structure shown by 1986 geophysics Possible pre-monastic structure shown by 2003 geophysics

Farmhouse

10

50m

Fig 14: Monastic building layout and previous archaeological work

Fig 15: Undated, probably early 20th-century plan in English Heritage Archive (ref 853/24)

Fig 16: Brakspear's plan of 1906, showing monastic buildings related to the existing farmyard buildings as known and conjectured at that time (VCH 1906, opp p136; Brakspear 1906)

Fig 17: Halesowen Abbey, 1777, by Thomas Hearn

Fig 18: Existing farmhouse from approximately the same viewpoint

Fig 19: Interpretative plans (top) by Litherland & Moscrop (nd, fig 23), on interpretation panel in the infirmary (centre), and sketch plan on EH file ref AA/690734/1 Pt 2 (lower)

Inner precinct

Scheduled Monument

Outer precinct

100

200m

Fig 17: Interpretation plan by Brown (2005, g 13) with Scheduled Monument boundary added

HALESOWEN
456) ) ne r Way(A Mano y Manor La rl e rm o (F

AREA 3
POND 2 POND 4 POND 5 Illey Brook POND 3

POND 1

AREA 2 AREA 1a
South Transept Walls C17 Barn Cloister West Wall In rmary Farmhouse Cloister South Wall Presbytery Wall

AREA 1b AREA 4

AREA 7

AREA 5

AREA 8 AREA 6

100

200m Public footpath Scheduled Monument

Fig 19: Buildings and Areas described