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The Priory Gatehouse in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a surviving fragment of a Benedictine priory founded around 1135 by Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. This nunnery, dedicated to St Mary, was one of only three such establishments in medieval Wales. The gatehouse, a Grade I listed building, features two storeys with gables and wide inner and outer arches. The style of its windows suggests a sixteenth-century date, possibly even post-Dissolution. (en.wikipedia.org) After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, the priory church became the parish church of Usk, with the gatehouse remaining as a prominent feature beside the main entrance to the churchyard. (nationalchurchestrust.org)
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