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Launceston, White Hart Hotel, Cornwall

Location
(50°38′13″N, 4°21′31″W)
Launceston, White Hart Hotel
SX 333 846
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cornwall
now Cornwall
  • Hazel Gardiner
16 Sep 2005

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Feature Sets
Description

The front entrance to the White Hart Hotel in Launceston is a reset doorway thought to be from the ruins of the Augustinian Priory of St Stephen, founded in 1136, which stands nearby.

History

The Domesday Book records that Count Robert of Mortain held Launceston in 1086 and was also tenant-in-chief. It does not record who held the land before the Conquest.

Features

Exterior Features

Other

Comments/Opinions

Pevsner notes that Henderson (C. Henderson, Cornish Church Guide, Truro , 1925) believes that the doorway may have come from the chapel of Launceston Castle.

Bibliography

C. and F. Thorn (eds) Domesday Book: Cornwall, Chichester, 1979, 5,1,22.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 2nd ed., London, 2000, 98.