More information : [SP 46080406] Cumnor Hall [GT] (Site of) (1)
Cumnor Place, Cumnor, Berks, a former grange of Abingdon Abbey, was
destroyed in 1810. The house stood to the west of the church and was
of quadrangular plan with an outer court to the north. It was a
singularly interesting medieval house mainly of fourteenth century
date (2).
Cumnor Place lay immediately south of Cumnor churchyard (3). (2,3)
Cumnor Place stood at SP 46100412 on a site now occupied by a recent extension to the churchyard. The buildings enclosed a courtyard with the Hall centrally placed in the western range. (See AO/63/205(1 and 2). It was demolished to provide materials for the rebuilding of Wytham Church (SP 40 NE 31).
A series of banks and terraces to the south, representing the remains of a garden attached to the house, seem to have been mistaken by the O.S. and V.C.H. for the site of the house itself.
1/2500 survey revised. (4)
Cumnor was an important Benedictine demesne manor of Abingdon
(Abingdon Chron. 1 8n, 126, 267). At the Suppression the mansion
passed to Thomas Rowland, last Abbot of Abingdon (L & P Hen VIII
i 583), subsequently referred to as the 'Manour Place' (L & P Hen
VIII XVI, 714).
A full description of the buildings occurs in Gents' Mag. (C) and the best illustration is given by Whittock (d). (5)
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