NHER 6158 (Monument record) - Site of Blakeney Friary or Sniterley Friary

Site of Carmelite Friary, founded 1296, see (S1).
Dissolved 1538.
Also known as Sniterley.
E. Rose (NAU)

Vicar claims parish church was used as its church, see NHER 6167.
E. Rose (NAU)

Fragments of monastic walling survive at the northeast corner of the house, with a doorway in the north wall of an adjacent building.
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 25 May 1990

(S2) reproduces a map of 1586 which shows the friary still standing.
E. Rose (NAU) 7 November 1997.

(S3) disputes that the friary used the parish church and suggests it was not in fact founded until after 1300.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 September 2002.

February 1979. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Long flint wall rising to about 11 to 12 ft high with later segmental- headed gateway through.
Information from (S4).
S. Spooner (NLA) 29 August 2006.

The upstanding flint wall at this site is the likely location of a possible bee bole recorded on the 'Bee Bole Register' (S5) as being at 'Friary Orchard, Blakeney', within a wall that was "…once part of [the] 14th-century Carmelite Friary, then in 18th to 19th century in kitchen garden of farm, then orchard; now in garden of house built 2006…".
P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2025.