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Monument Number 209630
Hob Uid: 209630
Location : Dorset Shapwick
Grid Ref : ST9410001520
Summary : A priory was recorded at Shapwick by Hutchins, which was taken over by the Carthusian monastery of Sheen after 1414. There is no confirmatory evidence from Sheen's records, and if it existed, its status is uncertain. Sheen certainly owned land in Shapwick.
More information : (ST 94100152) Priory (NR) (Site of) (NAT). (1) At Shapwick there 'was a small priory, or cell, belonging to the house of Jesus, or Priory of Shene in Surrey of the Carthusian order, founded by King Henry V 1414; and perhaps long before a cell to some foreign monastery ....' (2) The field within which this site falls was investigated after it had been ploughed. No traces of any occupation were found. Similarly, nothing is visible on air photograph (RAF CPE/UK/1893 4092 12.12.46). (3) Hutchins suggests that there was a small alien priory or cell at Shapwick which later belonged to Sheen Priory. Sheen had land here at the suppression, but no record of a cell has been found. (4)

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Source details : OS 6" 1929
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Source details : Hutchins History of Dorset 3rd Edition 1868 Vol 3 166-7
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Source details : F1 NVQ 17-MAR-54
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Source details : Md Religious Houses 1971 462 (D Knowles & R N Hadcock)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Carthusian Grange, Priory
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Number : ST 90 SW 24
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1954-03-17
End Date : 1954-03-17

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 209630