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Friars Court
Hob Uid: 332204
Location : Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire Clanfield
Grid Ref : SP2856000840
Summary : Mid 17th century farmhouse possibly incorporating a Mediaeval building. Two-storeyed through-passage plan with twin-gabled range at right-angles to the rear forming an L-plan. There are also two surviving arms of a moat visible. These were part of a 4-sided rectangular moat visible on maps of the 1840's. The site is traditionally associated with a Preceptory of the Knight's Hospitallers.
More information : (SP 2852 0088) Friar's Court (NAT) (site of) Monastery (NR) (Name SP 2856 0084) Moat (NR). (1) Friar's Court, a 17th/18th c house, with a moat situated just to the south, said to have been built on a monastic site. There appears to be no documentary evidence to support a monastic site here (2-4) Friars Court is a three storey building of which the upper part is a later addition. The front of the house has been cement rendered. It retains the 17th century windows and porch, but it is not of special interest. See G.P. The south, west and part of the north side of the waterfilled moat remain. A copy of a map, dated 1840, which is in the owners possession shows a complete four sided moat, with an entranceway at approximately SP 2857 0093, but this is not now evident from ground inspection. There is no evidence to substantiate a monastic site, but the owner says a building shown on the 1840 map at SP 2857 0086 was traditionally a chapel. (5)

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Source details : OS 6" 1960.
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Source details : M H L G (2510/11/A, June 1952) 36.
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Source details : VCH Oxon, 2, 1907, 105-6.
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Source details : Rev ONB., 37 SW., 1911,3.
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Source details : F1 MJF 13-MAY-70
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Source details : DOE (HHR) District of West Oxford Mar-1989 1
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Vol(s) : 50, 1985

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Building
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Rebuilt
Monument End Date : 1666
Monument Start Date : 1633
Monument Type : Farmhouse
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Depicted as extant
Monument End Date : 1849
Monument Start Date : 1840
Monument Type : Moat
Evidence : Documentary Evidence, Earthwork

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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Listed Building List Entry Legacy Uid
External Cross Reference Number : 253747
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External Cross Reference Source : NBR Index Number
External Cross Reference Number : 104227
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 20 SE 12
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1970-05-13
End Date : 1970-05-13

Associated Activities :
Activity type : ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY
Start Date : 1995-11-14
End Date : 1995-11-14

Historic England Research Records

Friars Court