The Gatehouse website record for Quarr Abbey

In the civil parish of Ryde. In the historic county of Hampshire (Modern Authority of Isle of Wight, 1974 county of Isle of Wight).

Fortified monastery. Precinct walls has circular gunloops. Roughly square enclosure. licensed 1365.
Edward III 24 Oct. 1365 Westminster
Licence for William, abbot of Quarr, in the Isle of Wight, and the convent of the same place, in the lifetime of the said William, to enclose with a wall and crenellate as many plots of land and of such precinct as they please on their own soil in the island, as well in the place called "Fisshehous" on the coast as elsewhere where it shall be expedient, and make castles or fortalices of these.
[C 66/272 Part 2, 39 Edw. III; or Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1216-1553, p.168.]
40 Edward III 12 June 1366 Westminster
Whereas the King lately granted licence for William, abbot, and the convent of Quarr in the Isle of Wight to enclose and crenellate divers plots of land on their own soil and castles or fortalices thereon in a place called Fisshehous on the sea coast and elsewhere on the island; he has now learned on the abbot's behalf that, whereas he has caused certain fortalices to be constructed at Fisshehous and at the abbot's mill and elsewhere on the island by virtue of the said licence, certain men of those parts are scheming to hinder those works and often set themselves to lay low and destroy the works begun by the abbot at his mill, the King has therefore taken the abbot, monks and fellow brethren, and the workmen and works of the abbey into his special protection, and has appointed Richard de Pembrugg and Theobald de Gorges, and deputies whom at the request of the abbot they shall appoint to survey the works, maintain and defend the abbot, monks and workmen and works, and arrest all contrariants during pleasure.
[C 66/273 Part 1, 40 Edw III ; or Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1216-1553, p. 253.]

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ56629266

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 461626
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