| Summary : Medieval Benedictine grange consisting of moat, fishponds, water channels, enclosures and buildings, seen as earthworks. The manor and moiety of the church were granted by the Empress Matilda to St Nicholas, Angers, circa 1148. Suppressed 1403. |
More information : [SK 93279316] Monks Garth Moat [G.T.]. (1)
Small quadrilateral enclosure enclosed by wide, slightly banked, moat. Site of the small priory founded as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Nicholas, Angers, and built probably in the 12th century. Tanner (a) doubts that there was a priory of monks here, and says it was never conventual. Dissolved in 1414 and granted to King's College, Cambridge. Site scheduled. (2-4)
To the north-west of this moat is a fishpond, connected to it by a wide drainage channel. All three features are now dry. Surveyed at 1/2500. (5)
The moated site at Monk's Garth, described by the previous
authorities, was surveyed on the ground and mapped from good quality air photographs by the RCHME. It consists of a moat at SK 9326 9316, enclosing a platform in which the foundations of a building were identified. NW of the moat are two fishponds and associated water channels, centred at SK 9322 9323. Around the moat, particularly surviving to the west, centred at SK 9322 9320, are ditched enclosures, interpreted as paddocks or closes. Documentary evidence suggests these features are part of a Medieval Monastic grange of an alien priory, but it is unlikely to have been the site of a priory. To the SE the planned settlement of Helpesthorpe (recorded in SK 99 SW 30) may also have been associated with this Monastic grange (6a).
(Morph No. LI.618.4.1-4)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
(6-6a) |