Maltby Hospitallers Preceptory |
Hob Uid: 354643 | |
Location : Lincolnshire East Lindsey Raithby cum Maltby
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Grid Ref : TF3080084430 |
Summary : Supposed House of Knights Templars, founded circa 1135-54, passed to the Knights Hospitallers in 1312, dissolved 1540, according to the Monastica Anglicanum. However, Knowles and Hadcock, (1971) state that the Monastica Anglicanum was incorrect, that the house was founded for the Hospitallers by Ranulf, Earl of Chester (died 1153), and was never a Templar property. It was united with Skirbeck in 1386, and annexed to the estate of the prior of England in 1445. Medieval moats possibly associated with the monastic use of the site are visible as earthworks. |
More information : [TF 30808443; TF 30808488; TF 31058420; TF 31468401: Moat [G.T.] (four times). (1) The house of the Knights Hospitallers of Maltby by Louth was founded temp. Stephen and dissolved in 1540. This was apparently a house of Templars according to Mon.(a) V.C.H. refers to the property of the Templars passing to the Hospitallers in 1312, when the order was suppressed. (4)The four moats and earthworks [B.C.D. and E.] represent the remains of the religious house, and there are traces of mediaeval work in the cottage "A" [TF 31068402] [See also TF 38 NW 7 for D.M.V.] (2-4) The restored cottage at 'A' shows some work of an 18th C. date but nothing definitely earlier. Of the 4 earthworks - 'B' is contraction of Raithby village; 'C' a relatively recent drainage moat, now filled in; 'D' a small moat - fishpond complex, part ploughed out; and 'E' is apparently only ornamental. Published surveys (25" 1906) revised. The associated of any of the remains with the house of the Templars/Hospitallers is problematical. (5)
The four Medieval or Post Medieval moats refered to by the previous authority were visible as earthworks and have been mapped from good quality air photographs. The moats are centred at TF 3080 8443, TF 3146 8401, TF 3080 8443 and TF 3105 8420 (referred to by the previous authority as B, C, D and E respectively ). Moat B is just an arrangement of substantial croft boundaries and has been mapped as part of Raithby Medieval settlement (TF 38 SW 47). Moat C is linked to drainage features associated with Maltby Medieval settlement (TF 38 SW 7) and could be a Medieval or Post Medieval drainage moat as suggested by the previous authority. It could also serve as a Post Medieval ornamental feature, perhaps related to an ornamental garden. Moat D appears isolated from Raithby and Maltby Medieval settlements by a large block of ridge and furrow but could the remains of a manorial complex associated with the settlement but it could equally be an ornamental moat. If any of the moats are associated with the Knights Hospitallers this moat seems most likely but only because it is isolated from the Medieval settlement. Moat E and associated fish ponds sits on the north western fringes of the Medieval settlement of Maltby (TF 38 SW 7) but is probably a Post Medieval ornamental moat, perhaps part of an ornamental garden, and therefore not connected with the Medieval settlement. (Morph No. LI.198.2.16, 24, LI.198.3.1,5)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (6) |