More information : [TL 6331 0205] Site of [TI] Bedeman's Berg [GT] Chapel [GT] (Remains of) [TI] (1) Bedeman's Berg, Essex. A Priory Cell, for Benedictine Monks, founded temp. Hen. I and dissolved c. 1536. (2) The ruin consists of an angle of the chapel wall. There are the remains of fishponds, and a well still called Holy Well. (3) Roman tiles; and millstones among these ruins are of Neider Mendig lava. (4) This site is located at an active farm called Monk's and Barrow's Farm. No ruined chapel wall could be identified (1975) and no Roman tiles or millstones could be seen. Local enquiries regarding these and the Holy Well were entirely negative. A single waterfilled fishpond still exists to the north east at TL 63350214 and a stream valley to its immediate west may be the site of another pond. (5) No trace of a chapel was found (1988). The farmer claimed a fragment of collapsed flint walling immediately NW of the present farmhouse as its site, but the use of modern bricks for the quoins makes the extant fabric at least, unlikely to be that of the medieval chapel. It is possible fishponds originally existed in the small valleys N of the farm, but nothing convincing now remains. (6)
See source for details. (7)
According to the Sites and Monuments Record, maintained by Essex County Council, this site was surveyed again in 1993. During the survey ruins of a wall and a pond were identified. The wall made of flint and roman tile and had collapsed and was lying on its side. Tile, brick and other building remains were scattered on the ground. Other earthwork features were also idenitified which are thought to have been the remains of other ponds. See record 751 on their website for details. (8) |