Chacombe Priory

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Chacombe Priory
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House on the site of Chacombe Priory
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Location within Northamptonshire
Monastery information
Order Augustinian
Established12th century
Disestablished1536
People
Founder(s)Hugh de Chacombe
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II* listed
Designated date11 September 1953
Site
Location Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England
Coordinates 52°05′28″N1°17′18″W / 52.0911°N 1.2884°W / 52.0911; -1.2884 Coordinates: 52°05′28″N1°17′18″W / 52.0911°N 1.2884°W / 52.0911; -1.2884
Grid reference SP48854388
Visible remainscore of building incorporated into country house;
also chapel and medieval fishponds

Chacombe Priory (or Chalcombe Priory) was a priory of Augustinian canons at Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England. [1]

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Hugh of Chalcombe, lord of the manor of Chacombe, founded the priory in the reign of Henry II (1154–89). [1] on low-lying land just west of the village close to the stream. [2] Hugh gave the priory endowments including a yardland at South Newington. [3] In about 1225 the priory's property included eight tenements in Banbury, seven of which it retained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. [4] By the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 the priory owned a tenement in Warwick, where it expanded its holdings until it owned a substantial number of tenements and cottages by the time of the Dissolution. [5]

On 27 September 1535 Sir John Tregonwell reported to Thomas Cromwell:

At Chacombe the prior is newly come, and is competently well learned in Holy Scripture. He is bringing into some order his canons, who are rude and unlearned. I am only afraid that he is too familiar and easy with them. [6]

When the priory was suppressed in 1536 [1] its property included land at Boddington, Northamptonshire, [7] Rotherby, Leicestershire [8] and Wardington, Oxfordshire, [9] and a tenement at Thorpe Mandeville. [10] Today the only visible remains of the priory are a small chapel apparently built in the 13th century [11] and a set of mediaeval fishponds. [1] However, at least three medieval stone coffin slabs, including one from the 13th century, have been found in the priory grounds. [2]

Part of the priory site is now occupied by a house, also called Chacombe Priory. The house has a large Elizabethan porch and a late 17th-century staircase, and was remodelled in the Georgian era. [1] [11] The house is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

Burials at the Priory

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Historic England (11 September 1953). "Chacombe Priory (1041228)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 RCHME 1982, pp. 26–27.
  3. ↑ Baggs et al. 1983, pp. 143–159.
  4. ↑ Colvin et al. 1972, pp. 42–49.
  5. ↑ Stephens 1969, pp. 480–489.
  6. ↑ Gairdner 1886, pp. 143–165.
  7. ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1898, pp. 315–331.
  8. ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1902, pp. 227–244.
  9. ↑ Gairdner 1890, pp. 239–254.
  10. ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1901, pp. 272–287.
  11. 1 2 Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 146.

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