Monkton House (Wiltshire)
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Monkton House is a country house in the village of Broughton Gifford in the English county of Wiltshire . The house from the 16th century has English Heritage as a historical building II *. Grade listed.
history
In the 12th century, Cluniac Benedictine monks founded a monastery in Monkton Farleigh and bought land in the vicinity for it. After the dissolution of the English monasteries , the abbey and its lands, including the manor of Monkton, were transferred to Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hartford . Seymour leased the manor to Edward Long , son of a wealthy Wiltshire cloth merchant, Henry Long of Whaddon . Edward had acquired the manor from Rood Ashton three years earlier .
Later, on May 15, 1615, Long also bought the country house and left it to his two sons Edward and John , who lived there successively. John seems to have had extensive construction work carried out on the house around 1647, as indicated by a plaque on the house wall. The work included repairs, alterations, a new roof and an extension on the east side. A heavily hewn mantelpiece is believed to have been part of an altar tomb at Monkton Farleigh Monastery and is now in one of the bedrooms.
At some point during the English Civil War , the household was forced to house soldiers who fought for Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary army. Possibly the above-mentioned conversions overused John Long's finances, as he was declared bankrupt in 1649-1650 and the property was sequestered . He was followed by his son Thomas Long from Rowden in Chippenham († 1691), the property was secured and remained in the hands of the Long family until Thomas Long sold it to Sir James Thynne from Longleat House on May 10, 1669 . It appears, however, that Thomas Long rented the house from the new owner until 1671. William Thynne then appears as the owner.
Today the house belongs to the Coote family .
Individual evidence
- ^ Monkton House with Attached Garden Walls . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ Monkton House with Attached Garden Walls, Melksham . Images of England. Historic England. English Heritage. ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, Long Family Records. Cat. 947/1417.
- ^ Peter Waterman: Wiltshire Libraries and Heritage Service .
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ N , 2 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W.