More information : Norton Conyers (317-763) 49 Poll tax payers in 1377. Chapel and
chantry (manorial?) here in 1420, ten tenants of closes in 1569. (1)
Chantry of St. Cuthbert in the chapel at Norton Conyers
founded by Richard Norton, Lord Chief Justice in 1422. (2)
A perambulation of the area, comprising arable and pasture,
fields, indicated by authority 1 revealed no suggestive trace
of a deserted village site. (3)
A possible deserted Medieval settlement at Norton Conyers is visible as a series of banks and field boundaries, terraced ground, and at least three building platforms. They are visible as a earthworks on air photographs and centred at SE 3176 7614.
The most prominent building platform is located at SE 3196 7614. It is roughly square in plan (20m by 19m) and surrounded by an external bank and ditch (offset from the platform by a gap of 2-3m). 167m north-west there are two further platforms that are rectangular in shape, but this time in the form of levelled cuts into slightly sloping ground. The three higher sides are topped by a narrow bank. They measure c.25m by 10m and 16m by 14m.
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