Standon Preceptory was a Knights Hospitaller foundation in the parish of Standon, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It was founded before 1154,[1] probably shortly after the Knights became possessors of the Standon Church in 1151,[2] and dissolved before 1443–4.[1]

Gilbert de Clare gave the church of Standon, 140 acres of land and his vineyard to the Hospitallers, who used it as a residence for sisters of the order until 1180.[3] The site was also used as a hospital and a school.[4] The building had a dormitory above and a refectory and kitchen below. It may have housed a dozen or more Knights.[2] At one time two Sisters of the Order named Melisene and Johanna resided within the commandery.[5]

When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, the manor, rectory and right to recommend an Anglican vicar at Standon were given to Ralph Sadler.[3] A fifteenth century timber-framed barn of aisle construction survives.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Standon Hospitallers Preceptory (370437)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 Brown, J. A. The Standon Hospice, Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, Volume 1, East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Stephen Austin & Sons, 1901 p289-291.
  3. 1 2 William Dugdale (1846). Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with Their Dependencies, in England and Wales. Vol. 6. Translated by John Caley. London: J. Bohn. p. 804.
  4. ↑ Pamela Shields (2005). Hertfordshire A-Z. The History Press. p. 149. ISBN 9780750953207.
  5. ↑ Struckmeyer, Myra, The Sisters of the Order of Saint John at Mynchin Buckland, in Luttrell, Anthony, and Helen J. Nicholson, eds. Hospitaller women in the Middle Ages. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006.
  6. ↑ Nicholas Doggett (2004). "The Demolition and Conversion of Former Monastic Buildings in Hertfordshire at the Dissolution". In Doris Jones-Baker (ed.). Hertfordshire in History: Papers Presented to Lionel Munby. University of Hertfordshire Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780954218942.

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