Monkwick Grange (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Colchester.
In the historic county of Essex.
Modern Authority of Essex.
1974 county of Essex.
Medieval County of Essex.

OS Map Grid Reference: TL998227
Latitude 51.86753° Longitude 0.90137°

Monkwick Grange has been described as a Fortified Ecclesiastical site although is doubtful that it was such.

There are no visible remains.

Description

Moat at Monkwick Farmhouse. The moat was levelled in the C17. At Domesday the farm supplied St Johns Abbey.
Incomplete, rectangular moat; sketch plan on back of MSRG card.
The farm supplied the monks of St Johns Abbey, Colchester and the manor of which it formed part was granted to the abbey by its founder Eudo Dapifer in 1100. After the dissolution of the monasteries the manor was granted to John Stepnie, Stratford with reversion to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and later Duke of Northumberland. Nothing is known of the early buildings on the site but tradition has it that there was a 'watch tower' on the island in the fishpond. Sir Francis Jobson probably built or rebuilt the house and resided there in the time of Elizabeth I.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 384148.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 11768.

Periodical Articles
- Cant, L., 1963, 'Monkwick Farmhouse, Berechurch' Colchester Archaeological Group Annual Bulletin Vol. 6.3 p. 17 online copy

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