Chacombe Priory

Augustinian priory in Chacombe, England

52°05′28″N 1°17′18″W / 52.0911°N 1.2884°W / 52.0911; -1.2884Grid referenceSP48854388Visible remainscore of building incorporated into country house;
also chapel and medieval fishponds

Chacombe Priory (or Chalcombe Priory) was a priory of Augustinian canons at Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England.^[1]

Hugh of Chalcombe, lord of the manor of Chacombe, founded the priory in the reign of Henry II (1154–89).^[1] on low-lying land just west of the village close to the stream.^[2] Hugh gave the priory endowments including a yardland at South Newington.^[3] In about 1225 the priory's property included eight tenements in Banbury, seven of which it retained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.^[4] By the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 the priory owned a tenement in Warwick, where it expanded its holdings until it owned a substantial number of tenements and cottages by the time of the Dissolution.^[5]

On 27 September 1535 Sir John Tregonwell reported to Thomas Cromwell:

At Chacombe the prior is newly come, and is competently well learned in Holy Scripture. He is bringing into some order his canons, who are rude and unlearned. I am only afraid that he is too familiar and easy with them.^[6]

When the priory was suppressed in 1536^[1] its property included land at Boddington, Northamptonshire,^[7] Rotherby, Leicestershire^[8] and Wardington, Oxfordshire,^[9] and a tenement at Thorpe Mandeville.^[10] Today the only visible remains of the priory are a small chapel apparently built in the 13th century^[11] and a set of mediaeval fishponds.^[1] However, at least three medieval stone coffin slabs, including one from the 13th century, have been found in the priory grounds.^[2]

Part of the priory site is now occupied by a house, also called Chacombe Priory. The house has a large Elizabethan porch and a late 17th-century staircase, and was remodelled in the Georgian era.^[1]^[11] The house is a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

Burials at the Priory

Nicholas de Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave and his wife Maud
John Segrave, 2nd Baron Segrave
Stephen de Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave (d. 1325)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Historic England (11 September 1953). "Chacombe Priory (1041228)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
^ ^a ^b RCHME 1982, pp. 26–27.
^ Baggs et al. 1983, pp. 143–159.
^ Colvin et al. 1972, pp. 42–49.
^ Stephens 1969, pp. 480–489.
^ Gairdner 1886, pp. 143–165.
^ Gairdner & Brodie 1898, pp. 315–331.
^ Gairdner & Brodie 1902, pp. 227–244.
^ Gairdner 1890, pp. 239–254.
^ Gairdner & Brodie 1901, pp. 272–287.
^ ^a ^b Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 146.

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