Snainton Preceptory

Foulbridge Farm, in 2010

Snainton Preceptory (also known as Foulbridge Priory) was a priory, just south of the village of Snainton, in North Yorkshire, England. The preceptory was started by the Knights Templar at Foulbridge which sits 1-mile (2 km) to the east of a Benedictine Priory at Yedingham. Both houses were on the River Derwent.^[1]

The preceptory was founded before 1226, but was suppressed between 1308 and 1312 and passed to the Knights Hospitaller in 1324, as confirmed by Edward II.^[2] The preceptory was given to the Archbishop of York in 1556, but it is unclear what happened afterwards.^[3]

Some of the buildings are now a grade I listed farmhouse and cottage. They consists of a timber framed aisled hall, much of which has been retained. It was enclosed in the 18th century by a farmhouse and cottage. These are in brick and have a pantile roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. The house has two storeys, a double depth plan, and three bays. On the front is a porch with chamfered posts and a cornice, and the windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with wedge lintels.{^[4][5]

See also

• Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district)
• Listed buildings in Snainton

References

1. "OL27" (Map). North York Moors - Eastern area. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319242667.
2. Historic England. "Foulbridge Templars Preceptory (64846)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 8 April 2019.
3. "Parishes: Brompton | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
4. Historic England. "Foulbridge farmhouse and attached cottage (Grade I) (1172918)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
5. Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.

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