Chacombe Priory
![]() House on the site of Chacombe Priory
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Location within Northamptonshire
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Order | Augustinian |
Established | 12th century |
Disestablished | 1536 |
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Founder(s) | Hugh de Chacombe |
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Heritage designation | Grade II* listed |
Designated date | 11 September 1953 |
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Location | Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Grid reference | SP48854388 |
Visible remains | core 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]
Hugh of Chacombe, 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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 RCHME 1982, pp. 26–27.
- ↑ Crossley 1983, pp. 143–159.
- ↑ Crossley 1972, pp. 42–49.
- ↑ Stephens 1969, pp. 480–489.
- ↑ Gairdner 1886, pp. 143–165.
- ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1898, pp. 315–331.
- ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1902, pp. 227–244.
- ↑ Gairdner 1890, pp. 239–254.
- ↑ Gairdner & Brodie 1901, pp. 272–287.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 146.
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