Monument record MLI12616 - Site of Moulton Hall, Frampton

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Site of Moulton Hall, Frampton.

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The village of Moulton, originally Multon is said to have been founded in 1100 by Thomas de Multon, the first Baron, whose family has a moated mansion in hall grounds, which they occupied until 1313. The college of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford held the manor of Multon Hall in Kirton and Framton in 1539. The site now forms part of a major Fen drainage system. There are no visible remains of the hall. {1}{2}{3} Large mounds and traces of moats are still clearly visible and a general scatter of rubble on the mound was found, including bricks, tiles, stone and stone slates, bones and pottery, mostly green glazed wares including pancheon rims and bases, thumbed base of a jug, jug handles, two shell-gritted sherds, one coarse cooking pot glazed inside with applied thumb strip, four dish rims of smooth ware (Bourne ware?) one green glazed pipkin handle, two badly weathered sherds with pink body and bright green glaze with wavy line decoration, four German stoneware sherds and a fragment of thin yellow glazed tile. {4} The moated site, known as Multon Hall, is scheduled and is situated on flat, low-lying ground with the moated complex covering an area measuring 230m by 200m. Multon, or Moulton, is though to have been established by Thomas de Multon in 1100. Documentary evidence shows that the Multon family had a moated manor house which they occupied until 1313. The college of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford, held the manor of Multon in Kirton and Frampton in 1539 and for the following three centuries. {5} Multon Hall was in the hands of the Multons of Frampton from at least the 13th century. Thomas de Multon of Frampton III inherited in 1324 following a long wardship from 1311. Some accounts and other manorial documents from the 1320s survive in the archives of Magdalen College, Oxford. During the wardship the manor appears to have been poorly looked after and may even have been pillaged late in the wardship. The layout of the manorial complex can be determined from the account rolls of 1324-26. These show that there was a major programme of rebuilding occurring at this time and in addition the accounts show that the moat was being dug in 1325-26. The manor passed to the Graa family in about 1368 through marriage to the last Multon heiress and the estate was one of those with which Bishop Wayneflete endowed Magdalen college. The estate came into the Bishop's hands in 1475. {6}

Sources/Archives (6)

  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TF 33 NW: 9.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William White. 1872. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire - Third Edition. pp.750-1.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Pishey Thompson. 1856. The Histories and Antiquities of Boston. p.63.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 33 NW: E.
  •  Scheduling Record: English Heritage. 1999. Scheduling document 31610. MPP 22.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Coss, Peter. 2010. The Foundations of Gentry Life: The Multons of Frampton amd their World 1270-1370. pp.10ff..

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Grid reference Centred TF 3390 3793 (218m by 263m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish FRAMPTON, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE

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