Ware Priory - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

Taken from Ware Online web-site:

The original friary was founded in 1338 (no one knows the story of how it came to be known as The Priory). After the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the 1530s, the building has undergone many phases of construction and alteration during its 650-year life. Being in private ownership, a hospital during the first World War, and then in 1920 the then owner, Mrs Anne Elizabeth Croft, daughter of Mr. Henry Page, one of the most influential maltsters of Ware in the 18th century, gave the Priory, then valued at the huge sum of £10,000 to the town. Ware Town Council as Trustees of the Priory Charity are now the freeholders.

Taking the Priory into the 21st century has been a major conservation project. Much remains of the known Friary buildings. The original back walls of the cloister are probably indicated by he main beam that runs the length of the present hall and by the heavy west wall of the entrance hall. Much of the main wall structure almost certainly survives from the 15th century, and a very strong indication of this is the roof construction.

Blue Plaque managing agency: Ware Council Individual Recognized: Ware Priory building Physical Address: Ware Priory High Street Ware, Herts United Kingdom SG12 9AL Web Address: [Web Link]

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