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Sandford Templars Preceptory
Hob Uid: 338554
Location : Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire Sandford-on-Thames
Grid Ref : SP5320001850
Summary : Built as a preceptory of the Knights Templars shortly after 1240, when land was granted to the Order by Thomas the younger of Sandford. After the dissolution of the Order 1308-12, it passed to the Knights Hospitallers by 1325. It was incorporated into the camerae of the Prior of England in 1371. After the dissolution of the Hospitallers, circa 1530, it became a farmhouse, (See SP50SW69).
More information : [SP 53200185] Knight Templars Preceptory [GT] (Site of) (1) Sandford. This was one of the largest English houses of the order of Knights Templars outside London. It was founded AD 1239-40, and the community appears to have numbered about eight, including the preceptor and a priest brother. After the suppression of the order it became a house of the Hospitallers (AD 1312) and was finally dissolved in 1540. (2) The earliest identifiable feature appears to be a small Tudor doorway in a barn (SP 53170184) though it is uncertain whether this has any connecton with the Hospitallers. The adjacent building, Temple Farm, is apparently 16/17th c. (3) (SP 53200185). Site of Knights Templar Preceptory. Linear earthwork and ditch; second ditch parallel 30m apart (centred SP 533018). (4) Bronze pyx cover found at site; dates to C11th and is similar in style to Byzantine school. (5) The linear features described in authority 4 were mapped from poor quality air photographs during the Thames Valley NMP project. They represent a hollow way associated with the shrunken Medieval village at Sandford on Thames (SP 50 SW 66), and are more accurately located at SP 5347 0174. (6)

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Source details : "The Knights Hospitallers in England" 1857, (JB Larking)
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Source details : Cathy Stoertz/30-MAR-1993/RCHME: Thames Valley NMP
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : C11
Monument End Date : 1066
Monument Start Date : 1000
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Evidence : Find

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Hospitallers Preceptory, Hollow Way, Hospitallers Camera, Templars Preceptory
Evidence : Documentary Evidence, Find, Cropmark

Components and Objects:

Period : Early Medieval
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Object Type : PYX
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Period : Medieval
Component Monument Type : Hospitallers Preceptory, Hollow Way, Hospitallers Camera, Templars Preceptory
Object Type : PYX
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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Oxfordshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1433
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 50 SW 35
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1970-03-10
End Date : 1970-03-10

Associated Activities :
Activity type : WATCHING BRIEF
Start Date : 1996-01-01
End Date : 1996-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 2012-01-01
End Date : 2013-12-31

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Sandford Templars Preceptory