Oxney Priory |
| Hob Uid: 352071 | |
Location :
City of Peterborough
Non Civil Parish
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| Grid Ref : TF2250000950 |
| Summary : Oxney House on site of Benedictine cell, moated monastic grange, and chapel. The Priory was extant in the reign of Edward I and there were several monks there in 1307. Although the Victoria County History dimisses its use as a cell, preferring to call it a grange, Knowles and Hadcock believe it to have primarily being a cell until dissolved in 1538. The fact that there is a moat appears to indicate that the cell may have ceased to exist before 1538 and that it had been converted to a grange afterwards. |
More information : (TF 2250 0095) Oxney House on site of (TI) St Mary's Chapel (LB). Moat. (1)
The site of the grange of Peterborough Abbey at Oxney, first mentioned in the reign of Henry I was occupied in 1906 by a farmhouse and buildings. The only remains were a stone-vaulted room of 14th cent (2) date and the moat(3).
Here was a chapel before 1155 (2) of which there were no remains in 1791 (4). It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary (3).
AP's show moat and possible buildings - sites. (2-5)
Nearly all of the moat has been filled in, the surviving portion being a short length of the west arm adjacent to the road.
Published survey (25") revised.
The present occupier of the house knows of no stone vaulted room. (6)
TF 22500100. The moat consists of a roughly rectangular island covering 8 acres, formerly bounded by a ditch. The ditch survives only on the west side where it is 10-15 feet wide and 4 feet deep. The other three sides have been destroyed by ploughing and gravel working. (7) |