2. Brief history of Croxton Kerrial
• Founded in 8th century by Anglo Saxons
• Original site to west of existing village on
road to Branston at bottom of hill next to
the stream
• Anglo Saxon artefacts found there in 70s
during construction of sewage works
• Conquered in 870S by the Danes. Village
centre moved to present site?
4. DOMESDAY SURVEY
• The king holds Crohtone. There are 24
carucates of land. In demesne there are
2 ploughs and 5 serfs; and 22 villeins
with 2 borders have 2 1/2 ploughs and
30 sokemen have 8 ploughs. There are
30 acres of meadow and 2 mills
rendering 8s
5. Holders of the Manor
• Held by Earl Algar then by his son, Earl Morcar, Earl of Northumberland
• 1086 Held by King William – no priest in Domesday, but mentioned elsewhere, Saxon
cross in south isle 0f church
• Farmed to Hugh Fitzbaldric a tenant in chief in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
• After his death manor went to Earl Meulan who fought on the losing side for Robert of
Normandy against his brother Henry the First in 1106 and lost his lands
• Henry I feoffed the manor to his nephew Stephen
• 1158 Stephen passed it to his son William Count of Boulogne who gave the site of the
abbey.
• King Henry II
• 1176 Hugh Porter - started the present church circa 1186?
• Hubert de Burgo, King Johns’ Chamberlain given Croxton by John
• 1195 Hugh Porter recovered Croxton when King Richard returned
• 1204 Geoffrey Lutterel of Bescaby and Saltby given Croxton in 1204
• Various hands including the abbey, probably ‘farmed’
• 1242 Croxton given by King John to Lord Bertram de Criol, Sherriff of Kent
• 1245 Nicholas son of Bertram, lived in the manor house died 1303
• Nicholas aged 21 succeeded to manor
• 1318 John de Criol leased the manor to Stephan de Segrave
• 1335 John de Criol sold the manor to John de Segrave
• 1336 John de Segrave gave the manor to the Abbey of Croxton
• 1538 Dissolution of the monastery, manor granted to the Earl of Rutland by Henry 8th
• The church pews are believed to be from the abbey and date from the 15th century and
earlier
6. The Manor House
• 1176 Hugh Porter granted to Abbey all his demesne of Croxton
except his mansion
• 1245 Nicholas de Criol lived in the manor house
• 1336 Manor given to Abbey
• 1519 Richard Mawburn paid £8 for the grange (manor house)
• 1559 George Pilkington ‘gent of Crowson’ held the site of the
manor or grange
• 1601 Roger and Ed Pilkington lease of grange etc and enclosing
land
• 1603 Ed Pilkington rented site of manor and watermill
• 1653 John and Ed Attwood of Knipton yeoman paid for ‘lease of
ancient grange house late in the tenure of Dorothy Yates’.
• Edward Remington was tenant of both "le Hall" and "le
Sta[ble?]" in 1685.
45. Is it Croxton Manor House?
• What we don’t have -
• What we do have-
• the site is adjacent to church – most
common site for a manor house
• it is a high status domestic site – the pit arch
- substantial quality masonry
• pottery finds date the building from the 11th
cto the 16th
• highly unlikely to be any other high status
medieval building in such a small village
49. Thanks
• Michael Copley – permission to carry out
geophysics and excavate
• Belvoir Estate – permission to excavate
• Alan Morris – geophysical surveys
• Gerald Botterill – use of barn for storage
• Peter Foden – archivist – for historical
information and 1799 map
• Most importantly – the diggers and recorders
