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Haverholme Priory
Haverholme Priory was a former monastery and a country house in Lincolnshire, England. Its remains are situated 4 miles (6 km) north-east of the town of Sleaford and less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west from the village of Anwick.
In 1137, Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln offered the site of Haverholme Priory to the Cistercian monks of Fountains Abbey. After two years of construction, the order rejected the site and instead established Louth Park Abbey. Haverholme was offered to Gilbert of Sempringham and his Gilbertine order, who sent nuns and brothers from Sempringham to inhabit the new buildings of what was to be a double monastery.
It is rumoured that in 1164 Thomas Becket hid at Haverholme during one of his arguments with the King.
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.
Henry VIII dissolved the Priory in 1538, which by the time the members of the Priory had dwindled down to a small number. The Priory was granted to Edward Lord Clinton, he sold it and it had various owners for over two hundred years.
Haverholme was then bought by Sir Samuel Gordon, 1st Baronet in 1763, it passed to his son Sir Jenison William Gordon, 2nd Baronet, who in 1788 improved and enlarged it. Sir Jenison had married Harriet Finch "Lady Gordon", they often visited Eastwell Park (home of Harriet's brother) and met Jane Austen there, who made kind descriptions of the couple in 1805.
Sir Jenison and his wife had no issue, so when Sir Jenison died in 1831, he left Haverholme to his wife's nephew, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, because of high costs and Sir Jenison's provision in the will for him to live here, he decided to abandon one of his estate of Kirby Hall for Haverholme.
The 10th Earl of Winchilsea then commissioned Henry Edward Kendall to redesign Haverholme in 1830s, the work being completed in 1835. A resemblance to Haverholme Priory can be seen in Carre's Hospital at Sleaford, designed also by Kendall.
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Haverholme Priory
Haverholme Priory was a former monastery and a country house in Lincolnshire, England. Its remains are situated 4 miles (6 km) north-east of the town of Sleaford and less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west from the village of Anwick.
In 1137, Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln offered the site of Haverholme Priory to the Cistercian monks of Fountains Abbey. After two years of construction, the order rejected the site and instead established Louth Park Abbey. Haverholme was offered to Gilbert of Sempringham and his Gilbertine order, who sent nuns and brothers from Sempringham to inhabit the new buildings of what was to be a double monastery.
It is rumoured that in 1164 Thomas Becket hid at Haverholme during one of his arguments with the King.
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.
Henry VIII dissolved the Priory in 1538, which by the time the members of the Priory had dwindled down to a small number. The Priory was granted to Edward Lord Clinton, he sold it and it had various owners for over two hundred years.
Haverholme was then bought by Sir Samuel Gordon, 1st Baronet in 1763, it passed to his son Sir Jenison William Gordon, 2nd Baronet, who in 1788 improved and enlarged it. Sir Jenison had married Harriet Finch "Lady Gordon", they often visited Eastwell Park (home of Harriet's brother) and met Jane Austen there, who made kind descriptions of the couple in 1805.
Sir Jenison and his wife had no issue, so when Sir Jenison died in 1831, he left Haverholme to his wife's nephew, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, because of high costs and Sir Jenison's provision in the will for him to live here, he decided to abandon one of his estate of Kirby Hall for Haverholme.
The 10th Earl of Winchilsea then commissioned Henry Edward Kendall to redesign Haverholme in 1830s, the work being completed in 1835. A resemblance to Haverholme Priory can be seen in Carre's Hospital at Sleaford, designed also by Kendall.
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