Monument record 638/22 - Possible Medieval Vicarage

{1} According to Baker the church was early appropriated to the prior and convent, and the vicarage ordained in 1209-34, although a charter of c.1165 referred to vicaria constructa edificata in nostro proprio solo de Beckelowe. There is reference to the vicar of Daventry in 1284 but the benefice was probably disappropriated when he died and converted again into a rectory, for no vicarage was recorded in the 1291 taxation of Pope Nicholas.
The second vicarage was ordained in 1301, with the vicar provided with food in the priory and a house outside the priory gate. The bishops of Lincoln instituted to the vicarage clerks presented by the priory, but from 1432 the church was supplied by vicars from the convent without either institution or induction. In 1655 the parliamentary commissioners certified it to be a vicarage worth £40 a year in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Christ Church.

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.2.3 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100501.

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Apr 28 2008 9:52AM