Faxfleet Hall Garths, Blacktoft (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Faxflete

In the civil parish of Blacktoft.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of East Riding of Yorkshire.
1974 county of Humberside.
Medieval County of Yorkshire East Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE86022483
Latitude 53.71200° Longitude -0.69816°

Faxfleet Hall Garths, Blacktoft has been described as a Palace although is doubtful that it was such, and also as a probable Fortified Manor House, and also as a probable Fortified Ecclesiastical site.

There are earthwork remains.

Description

Earthworks of deep hollow ways enclosing small fields occur at the reputed site of an establishment of Knights Templars which existed at Faxfleet in the 12th century. The preceptory of Faxfleet was one of the most important in the country, and when suppressed between AD 1308-12 its value was 290 pounds. Foundation date not known, but extant by 1220. (PastScape)

Although very little is known of this preceptory, it was clearly one of the most important in the county. The value in 1308 is returned as £290 4s. 10d., a greater sum than was set down for any other Yorkshire preceptory; the chapel was remarkably well provided, the value of its contents reaching the exceptional sum of £12, and there was 'a certain treasury with many written deeds and bulls relating to estates in Yorkshire,' which was duly locked up and sealed with the seals of the sheriff and the preceptor of Yorkshire. Several of the Templars arrested in 1308 said that they had been received into the order of Faxfleet. Hugh of Tadcaster, for instance, related how he had formerly been ' claviger' at Faxfleet, and when he desired to be admitted the Grand Master, William de la More, received him into the order in the chapel. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 61229.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 721; 14508.

Books
- Loughlin, Neil and Miller, Keith, 1979, A survey of archaeological sites in Humberside carried out for the Humberside Joint Archaeological Committee p. 40
  Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p. 111
  Knowles, David and Hadcock, R Neville, 1971, Medieval religious houses in England and Wales (Longman) p. 236
  Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 937
  Page, Wm (ed), 1913, VCH Yorkshire Vol. 3 p. 257-8 online transcription
Periodical Articles
- Butler, L., 1994, 'An Attack on Sandal Castle in 1413' Medieval Yorkshire (Newsletter of the Medieval section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society) Vol. 23 p. 33-6
  1929, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 29 p. 371-2
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1910, Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry V (1413-16) Vol. 1 p. 65 online copy

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