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| HHER Number: | 6213 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | MANORIAL SITE, TYTTENHANGER, RIDGE |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- MANOR HOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
Associated Events
- Evaluation at Tyttenhanger Quarry, St Albans (Ref: TR 31064DFA)
- Excavation at Tyttenhanger Park
Protected Status
- Listed Building (I)
- SHINE: Medieval Manorial Site, Tyttenhanger, Ridge
Full description
The manor of Tyttenhanger belonged to St Albans Abbey from before the Conquest <5>; a house was built here by Abbot Richard (1326-35) <1>, and rebuilt by Abbot William Heyworth at the beginning of the 15C <6>. <5> notes that the house was a place of resort for the abbots and for the entertainment of guests, and was large enough to enable Henry VIII and his queen (Katharine of Aragon) to stay for a fortnight in 1528. The manor was granted to Sir Thomas Pope in 1547. The present house [9669] was built by Sir Henry Blount in 1654-1660 <1>. The cellars appear to be earlier, and evaluation of the park south of the house found medieval outbuildings and a boundary ditch indicating that the earlier house stood on the same site <2, 6>. Survey of earthworks around the standing building found evidence of a medieval moat and fishponds [12764] <6>.
For the deer park, see [9972]; for the medieval gatehouse and outbuildings, see [11784], [11786], and [12763]; for tile kilns and corn drying ovens, see [10946-7], and for a late kiln, see [11785].
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Unpublished document: Stephen Castle. Information. Letter, Jan 1981 |
| <2> | Report: J Percival & A Richmond. 1996. Report on an archaeological field evaluation: Tyttenhanger quarry, St Albans, Herts (R684). field evaluation. |
| <3> | Report: Christopher E Howlett. 1995. Baseline study towards an environment assesement: archaeology and historic landscapes, Tyttenhanger, St Albans, Herts (R198). archaeological assessment. |
| <4> | Report: C R Turner & J R Hunn. 2000. A mitigation report on land at Tyttenhanger Park, Herts. mitigation report. RNO 762 |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Smith, J T. 1993. Hertfordshire houses: selective inventory. p148-9 |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Hunn, Jonathan R. 2004. Tyttenhanger: excavation and survey in the parish of Ridge, Hertfordshire, undertaken by Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. |
| <7> | Article in serial: Jonathan Hunn. 2002. Tyttenhanger Park: the rise and fall of a manorial estate; Herts Past 52 (spring 2002), 7-22. |
| <8> | Report: Christopher E Howlett & Isabel M G Lisboa. 1996. Baseline study towards an environmental assessment: archaeology and historic landscapes. Tyttenhanger (east), St Albans, Herts (R199). archaeological assessment. |
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