Gatehouse to St Benet's Abbey, Horning, Norfolk
This ruined arch was the gatehouse to St. Benet's Abbey. It dates from the late 1300s. The earliest monastery was founded here by Saxon monks in c800, but destroyed by the Danes in 870. It was refounded by Wulfric in 960. King Cnut founded a Benedictine Abbey here in 1019. The abbey was not dissolved by Henry VIII but given to William Reppes, Bishop of Norwich in 1540. He stripped it and expelled the monks. The red brick tower mill was built into the ruins between 1728 and 1735.
