Monument record 727/43 - Medieval Tenement Group, East of Watling Street, South of Market Place

{1}Among the endowments of Sponne’s chantry which had been established by letters patent dated 17 November 1448 was a messuage with one end abutting Church Lane and the other lying towards ‘le courteyerd’.

In 1448-9 a tenement was described as lying ‘on the corner opposite the rector’s door between the tenement once of Mr William Sponne on the north, and the lane .... towards the ‘convulendum’ (presumably a mis-reading of molendinum) of the lord on the south, Watling Street on the west and the manor gate of Towcester on the east....’. This tenement was therefore located just to the north of Church Lane and the manor accordingly lay between the motte and the church.

<1> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Laughton J.; Steadman S.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Towcester, 3.5.2 (Report). SNN103132.

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