Monument record MLI22441 - CELL, SEMPRINGHAM PRIORY, AT RIGBOLT HOUSE

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CELL, SEMPRINGHAM PRIORY, AT RIGBOLT HOUSE

Type and Period (2)

  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Full Description

Rigbolt House, Beach Bank, Gosberton, an 18th century brick building on moated site of Gilbertine cell or grange. The cell or grange was first mentioned about 1280. It has been suggested that the grange probably arose in the second half of the 12th century. Rogbolt was granted to Sempringham in the late 13th century. The right of holding a fair at the Manor of Wrightbald was conceded in 1293 to the Gilbertine Priory of Sempringham, which were said to have useful sources of revenue for the Abbey. In 1535 the list of the granges, lands and tenements belonging to the house included Wrightbald. {1}{2}{3}{4}{9}{10} Rigbolt House is late 18th century brick and stone building. There are no known remains of an earlier structure. A double moat survives, the southern leg integrated into modern drainage Published survey (25 inch) revised.{1} The monument, which is located close to a medieval fen bank enclosing marine silts which were probably taken in from the fen in the early 12th century, includes a moated site incorporating two enclosures on a line north to south, and adjoining this, to the north and east of the northern enclosure, the remains of part of a field system of medieval type. It survives well, being undisturbed by cultivation and to a large extent unencumbered by later building. Its proximity to Newhall moated site, a grange of Spalding Priory less than a kilometre to the south in the neighbouring parish of Pinchbeck, is of additional interest for comparative studies of this class of site and for the study of the medieval landscape in this part of the fenland region. Rigbolt House, which is a Listed Building grade II is excluded from the scheduling, as are the farm buildings which occupy part of the eastern side of the site, all track and yard surfaces, paths, an oil tank, lamp posts and clothes line posts in the grounds of the house, the garden wall and fence, a lawn tennis court to the south of the house, service poles, a pump house and pump adjacent to the northern arm of the moat, and all field boundary fences and gates, although the ground beneath all these features is included. There is a full description in the scheduling document 20816. {8} A watching brief at Rigbolt House identified a large east-west aligned ditch believed to form part of the moat or field system complex that survives as earthworks immediately to the west. Close to the ditch was a large posthole. The function of the timber upright implied by this post-hole is indeterminate. However, it is possible that the post was intended to enforce the demarcation provided by the ditch, perhaps by serving as part of a fence. The ditch was back-filled in the post medieval period. {9}{10}

Sources/Archives (12)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. GOSBERTON. TF 12 NE:6,1965, D.A..
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William Page (ed). 1906. The Victoria County History: Lincolnshire - Volume 2. VOL 2 P 183 AND 186.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William White. 1872. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire - Third Edition. 3RD EDN:P 795.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. GOSBERTON. TF 12 NE:E -.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William Marrat. 1814. The History of Lincolnshire; Topographical, Historical and Descriptive. VOL II.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Hayes, P. P. and Lane, T. W.. 1992. The Fenland Project No.5: Lincolnshire Survey, the South-West Fens. REPORT 55 P 53-64.
  •  Scheduling Record: ENGLISH HERITAGE. 1995. SCHEDULING DOCUMENT 20816. MPP 22.
  •  Unpublished Document: SIDEBOTTOM, P.C. AND LANE, T.W.. 1990. FENLAND RESEARCH PROJECT. -.
  •  Unpublished Document: R.H. Healey and D.R. Roffe. Some Medieval and Later Earthworks in South Lincolnshire. PP 41-3; Fig.26.
  •  Report: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT SERVICES. 1994. RIGBOLT HOUSE. GRH94.
  •  Archive: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT SERVICES. 1994. RIGBOLT HOUSE. LCNCC 171.94.
  •  Article in Serial: F.N. Field and I. George. 1995. Archaeology in Lincolnshire. VOL 30 P 41.

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Grid reference Centred TF 1945 2819 (309m by 395m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish GOSBERTON, SOUTH HOLLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE

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