Monument record 2416/45 - Rectory Manor

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{1}The rectory was held by the Abbot of Peterborough until the dissolution but it was not impropriated until the later 15th century. However, in 1338 the Abbot had received licence to acquire the rents out of tenements from Robert of Croyland, parson of Oundle relating to 33/- rent out of tenements called Claryvausefe in Oundle. This may have been the Nicholas Clerivaux who was killed in 1347.

The earliest known rector was Ralph, who occurs in 1159. It may be that the rectory was finally impropriated because the Abbott was intending to lease out the Burystead manor site and needed the Rectory as a base for the management of his Oundle property. This is the implication when in 1539 the Rectory itself is leased out to Robert Baker (although the Rectory was already leased out in 1518, to Richard Wilkinson ). He was required, for his rent of £45/6/8d, not only to maintain the property but also to share with the Abbot and his officers ‘sufficient lodgyng, convenient sheddyng and house room in the hall parlor chambers and kitchen with the untensilles of the Kitchen and convenyent stabullyng, hay littor for their Horses’.

In 1590 the crown granted the rectory to Sir Anthony Mildmay for life and in the late 17th century it was acquired by the Walcot family. As with the rest of the town, the Rectory was further developed in the medieval period to exploit the growth in wealth and population in the town by the creation of new tenements from within the Rectory property. There were certainly tenants of the rector by the 1230s for John de Burgo, rector of Oundle in 1234, granted William de Milton a house which Harwisia filia John Capellani held in Oundle with half an acre of field land.

Apart from the single tenement in West Street, the Rectory property lay wholly within North Street. The majority of these tenements in 1565 lay on the east of the Rectory, between it and the High Street and seem on topographical grounds to have been carved out of the original Rectory property following or as part of the laying out of North Street to the new North Bridge, which occurred some time before 1214-22

The topography of the Rectory and the Church must be considered together because they share a north-south boundary dividing them from the Burystead manor. The Rectory comprised the north east part of the putative pre medieval enclosure at the core of the settlement, the church having been taken out of the south eastern part of the eastern part of the enclosure.The manor is accurately located by 1400. In 1292 Hugh of Collingham, who was rector of Oundle in the late 13th century, paid 12d for right of access to the fields over the Abbot’s furlong. This must have been at the north west corner of the Rectory where the property abutted the Burystead demesnes, confirming the location of the rectory earlier in the medieval period. In the 1565 survey the rectory is described and accurately located. It comprised ‘within the gate’ the manse, barns, stables, other buildings, easements and curtilage. It was leased for £15/13/04. On its east side it was divided from the High Street by the tenements of the rectory fee, except for one plot which contained the kiln house (‘le kilne’ or ‘ustrinum’) and the gate of the rectory, opening out onto North Street.


<1> Foard G.; Ballinger J.;, 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle, 3.1.1.2 Rectory Manor (Report). SNN102637.

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  • <1> Report: Foard G.; Ballinger J.;. 2002. Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle. NCC. 3.1.1.2 Rectory Manor.

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Grid reference Centred TL 02084 87706 (2806m by 1247m)
Civil Parish OUNDLE, North Northamptonshire (formerly East Northants District)

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Record last edited

Aug 29 2014 10:38AM

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