I N their exhaustive monograph on the barns of the abbey of Beaulieu,' Horn and Born declare that of the estimated two to three thousand Cistercian barns once existing in England, only two certainly remain-those of Great Coxwell, Berkshire, which is intact, and Beaulieu St. Leonard's, Hampshire, which is ruinous. Both are former granges of Beaulieu.
On the evidence of an ink sketch plan in a scrap-book in the Avery Library, Columbia University, New York, Horn and Born allow the possibility that a third example of a Cistercian barn may have existed substantially intact at Shilton, Oxon, as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.'
A Lost Cistercian Barn at Shilton By P. L. HEYWORTH (Oxoniensia 1971)
