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Description: | A small religious house at Hartsholme founded in the early 12th century by Ranulf, Earl of Chester and others, passed as a cell to Bardney Abbey before 1200 and recorded in their cartulary as a hospital. {1}{2}{3}{4}
In 1311 King Edward II sent a servant there to be looked after with a pension, and in 1402 Laurence Allerthorpe was made master of the house. There are no further historic references. {5}
A. J. White identified a medieval site on Hawhill near Swanpool in Lincoln and suggested this might be the site of this cell or hospital. Hawhill is a low lying island of higher land within what used to be an area of water and wetland associated with the Brayford. The top of the raised knoll was thickly covered with finds, with building debris and charcoal found. The finds were medieval tile and late medieval pottery together with some broken limestone including cut blocks, also animal bone with marks of butchering and shell fish, being mostly oyster and cockles. The pottery included sixteenth and seventeenth century wares indicating that the site continued in occupation in some form after the dissolution of the monasteries. {6}{7}{9}
An enclosed religious house, founded in the early 12th century by Ranulf Earl of Chester and others. It was subsequently a small monastic cell of Bardney Abbey and it also seems to have been a hospital for the poor. This monastic site is potentially of great interest as it seems to have the same character as the 'hospital' at Partney, which was also a cell of Bardney Abbey set on an 'island' site. If this parallel is valid then St Mary's Hartsholme may be a middle Anglo-Saxon church site which was given to Bardney on its re-foundation in recognition of its early status. {8} | Temporal: | 700 - 900 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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