Kirklees Priory Gatehouse (Kirklees): Difference between revisions

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* {{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}. Report of a presentation on the history of the priory and surviving documentary materials relating to it, on excavations, the Armytages' long ownership of the etstate, rediscovered nun's graves etc.
* {{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}. Report of a presentation on the history of the priory and surviving documentary materials relating to it, on excavations, the Armytages' long ownership of the etstate, rediscovered nun's graves etc.
=== Maps ===
=== Maps ===
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947620#zoom=6&lat=1642&lon=7287&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXXXI.SE (1894, surveyed 1889-92)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947620#zoom=6&lat=1642&lon=7287&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' Sheet CCXXXI.SE (1894, surveyed 1889-92)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947617#zoom=5&lat=1726&lon=7134&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1908, rev. 1905)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947617#zoom=5&lat=1726&lon=7134&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1908, rev. 1905)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947614#zoom=5&lat=1744&lon=7289&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1931, rev. 1931)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947614#zoom=5&lat=1744&lon=7289&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1931, rev. 1931)]

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Approximate location of the gatehouse
Kirklees Priory Gatehouse (photo: Humphrey Bolton, 29 May 2006.)

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

The gatehouse at Kirklees is where, according to tradition, Robin Hood shot his last arrow and died. He was to be buried where the arrow landed (see Robin Hood's Grave). The gatehouse is the only part of Kirklees Priory left, and it seems to have been extensively rebuilt during the Elizabethan period. At a talk he gave to members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1906, the then owner of the Kirklees estate, George John Armytage, had this to say about the gatehouse:

There is a mention of an old almshouse without the gate, and another, 40 feet long and 18 feet broad, by the beck side. This may refer to the present gate-house now standing [...]. This is supposed to be the house in which Robin Hood died, but that is another history, to which I do not propose to refer to-night. Mr. Bilson, however, thinks that this is a post-dissolution building. It has evidently been built at two different periods, the wooden portion being older than the stone.[1]

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