Haverholme Priory

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Haverholme
Ewerby and Evedon - Haverholme Priory.jpg
Ruins of Haverholme Priory
Haverholme is located in Lincolnshire
Haverholme
Haverholme
 Haverholme shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference TF107494
   – London 100 mi (160 km)  S
Civil parish Ewerby and Evedon
District North Kesteven
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Sleaford
Postcode district NG34
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Sleaford and North Hykeham
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Haverholme Priory was a monastery in Lincolnshire, England. Its remains are situated 4 miles (6 km) north-east from the town of Sleaford and less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west from the village of Anwick.[1]

Foundation

Gilbert of Sempringham founded the only English order of the Cistercian monks, who were given Haverholme Priory, by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, located between the villages of Anwick and Ewerby in Lincolnshire. The Cistercians later sold the monastery to Gilbert.

Gilbertine operation

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Haverholme Priory in an 1826 sketch in The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gilbertines also inherited the responsibility for keeping the neighbouring fens drained, and to maintain a foot ferry to Sleaford across the River Slea at Ewerby Waith. They were however summoned to account in 1316 when it fell into disrepair. They were summoned again in 1360 when Alice Everingham, daughter of John de Everingham, who was supposed to have taken vows, fled from the Priory, only to be hunted down and recaptured. She complained to the Bishop of the time that she had never taken vows and she was being held against her will, so he ordered her to be released.

It is rumoured that Thomas Becket hid there during one of his arguments with the King.[citation needed]

Dissolution and subsequent history

Henry VIII dissolved the Priory and it had various owners for the next two and a half centuries. It was bought by the Finch-Hatton family. George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and 5th Earl of Nottingham rebuilt it in 1830. It was used as a family home by the Finch-Hatton family for almost a century but by the early 1920s it was up for sale.[2][3] Haverholme was sold in 1926 to an American woman who had most of it dismantled, stone by stone, to be rebuilt in America. The cargo was on the dock in Liverpool when the buyer became a victim in a train crash. Eventually the stones, never shipped to America, were used to build new docks.[4]

One casualty of this[clarification needed] was the Sleaford Canal locks, which also fell into disuse, effectively closing the canal.

The present ruin is the remains of a Gothic building built around 1835 by H.E. Kendall, itself a rebuild of an earlier house dating from 1780, and now a Grade II listed building and designated Ancient Monument.

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  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ The Estate Market: Haverholme Priory: Sporting Property. The Times, 19 August 1921, p. 15, col. G (first paragraph).
  3. ↑ "Haverholme Priory". The Times, 31 August 1921, p. 18, columns A and B.
  4. ↑ "Denys Finch Hatton's Boyhood Home", karenblixen.com
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