Gokewell / Goykewell

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Long-abandoned ruins of Gokewell Priory Farm near Broughton. Gokewell Priory was small house of Cistercian nuns founded by William de Alta Ripa c1148, in 1376 there was a Prioress, 9 nuns and 2 sisters, it was dissolved 1536. Earthworks and ponds surround the site and some of the 13th century stonework was re-used in the buildings of Gokewell Priory Farm."

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 February 1991 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3200083] [accessed 26 April 2019]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Long-abandoned ruins of Gokewell Priory Farm near Broughton. Gokewell Priory was small house of Cistercian nuns founded by William de Alta Ripa c1148, in 1376 there was a Prioress, 9 nuns and 2 sisters, it was dissolved 1536. Earthworks and ponds surround the site and some of the 13th century stonework was re-used in the buildings of Gokewell Priory Farm."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 February 1991 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3200127] [accessed 26 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22116GOK
Church/Chapel: Cistercian Priory Church [disappeared]
Church Location: [cf. Geo Directions]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared priory of Gokewell in located halfway between Broughton and Santon, in N Lincolnshire; a Priory Farm was built with materials from the priory ruins, but it was demolished itself
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
No individual entry found for Gokewell in the Domesday survey. The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The small priory of Gokewell now in Broughton was founded by William de Alta Ripa during the reign of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189] [...] The revenue of the house was probably never more than sufficient for ten or twelve nuns: in 1440 there were eight, and at the dissolution seven. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there was a master or warden appointed to take charge of the temporalities, as in other small nunneries: and even in the fifteenth century a secular priest acted as their steward. [...] It was dissolved before Michaelmas, 1536."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.581138, -0.580901
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 34′ 52.1″ N, 0° 34′ 51.25″ W
UTM: 30U 660144 5939642

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.