Haverholme Priory

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Haverholme Priory ruins

Haverholme Priory is a ruined monastery in Lincolnshire , England, 6 km northeast of Sleaford and about 1 km southwest of the village of Anwick .

founding

In 1137 Alexander the Bishop of Lincoln gave the site of Haverholme Priory to the Cistercians from Fountains Abbey . After two years of construction, the monks rejected the property and founded Park Abbey instead . Haverholme was given to Gilbert of Sempringham and his Gilbertines , who sent nuns and monks from Sempringham to the new monastery, which was to become a double monastery .

Gilbertiner

Haverholme Priory in a drawing that appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1826

Like the Cistercians before, the Gilbertines were obliged to drain the neighboring fens and to maintain a passenger ferry to Sleaford on the River Slea at Ewerby Waith . The order was summoned in 1316 because the ferry was not properly maintained. In 1360 the monks were called in again because Alice Everingham, daughter of John de Everingham , who should have taken the veil, fled the monastery, was hunted and recaptured. She complained to the then bishop that she had never made the vow and that she was being held against her will. The bishop ordered her release.

Rumor has it that Thomas Becket was hiding in Haverholme in 1164 when he was at odds with the king.

Resolution and further story

Henry VIII dissolved the monastery in 1538; it had several other owners over the next two and a half centuries. Eventually it was inherited by the Finch-Hatton family. George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and 5th Earl of Nottingham rebuilt it in 1830. It served the family as a residence for almost a century, but was for sale at the beginning of the 20th century. Haverholme was sold to an American in 1926 who had most of it quarried brick by brick with the intention of rebuilding it in the United States. However, the freight was never shipped because the buyer was killed in a train accident. The stones that were already in Liverpool were used in the construction of a new dock.

The ruins that have been preserved are the remains of a neo-Gothic building that was built by HE Kendall around 1835 and was itself a reconstruction of an earlier house from around 1780; they are a Listed Building in Grade II and designated as an Ancient Monument .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Haverholme Priory (351056). In: PastScape. English Heritage , accessed November 12, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b c William Page: A History of the County of Lincoln . Ed .: British History Online. tape 2 : Houses of the Gilbertine order. The priory of Haverholme . Dawson, London 1988, ISBN 0-7129-1045-X , pp. 187–188 ( british-history.ac.uk - first edition: London 1906, reprint).
  3. ^ The Estate Market: Haverholme Priory: Sporting Property. In: The Times. August 19, 1921, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Haverholme Priory. In: The Times. August 31, 1921, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Denys Finch Hatton's Boyhood Home , karenblixen.com.
  6. ↑ Haverholme Priory GII listing [1360563] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ Haverholme Priory scheduling [1004984] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England. Retrieved June 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '50.9 "  N , 0 ° 20' 57.5"  W.