Gowran - Church of St Mary, (HI)

Guided tours; exhibition; toilets; disabled toilet; car park. Restricted disabled access. This collegiate church built in the late 13th century is on the site of an earlier monastery. It was served by clerics who lived in a community, who did not submit to the rule of the monastery. They lived in a house, now destroyed, beside the church.

The church was large, with an aisled nave and a long chancel. In the late middle-ages a massive tower was inserted between the nave and the chancel. In the 19th century this tower was incorporated into the parish church.