Monument record 0194200000 - WOOBURN DEYNCOURT MANOR

Summary

Medieval to post-medieval records of Wooburn Deyncourt manor - 15th century manor house and chapel. Last fragment demolished in 1931 and area re-developed

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Type and Period (2)

MANOR (15th Century to 19th Century - 1400 AD to 1831 AD)
CHAPEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1831 AD)

Description

WOOBURN MANOR ASSESSED 1086 AT 8 1/2 HIDES WHEN HELD BY BISHOP OF LINCOLN. FROM 1ST QUARTER OF C15 2 PARTS OF MANOR CALLED WOOBURN DEYNCOURT/DEANCOURT, AFTER DEYNCOURT FAMILY. LATER PASSED TO COMPTON, GOODWIN (WHARTON), BERTIE & DU PRE FAMILIES (FULL HISTORY) (B3).
SITE OF MANOR HOUSE (01:000) AT NGR (B7).

At Deyncourt Farm, 15th C outbuildings and four 15-16th C cottages are all that remain of the Manor House of the Deyncourts. The three western cottages constituted the chapel and the outbuildings included the hall (B4).

A chapel adjoined the mansion belonging to Deyncourt Manor, and was built in cruciform shape, thirty-six feet long and twenty-four feet wide. Portions of it are still traceable in the windows and roof of a building the Deyncourt almshouse (B2).

In December 1931 the only existing portions of the 15th C manor house of the d'Eyncourts and Lovells at Wooburn were pulled down. Previously, in 1920, another portion of the same group of buildings (classified in RCHM 1912 p 324 as possibly the Hall) was demolished to make room for the new road which now runs west of the church. Various materials, including two king posts, bricks, stone door and window mouldings etc were collected from the site and photographs taken of the building. From the evidence of this material and by comparison of the photographs with that in the RCHM it seems far more likely that the building recently destroyed was the great hall of the manor (B5).

The area SU 908 878 has been largely developed, and Deyncourts Manor House cannot be sited on the ground. The enclosure map of 1803 shows no buildings in a field named Dean Court Close (B11).

Reconstruction of Wooburn D'Eyncourt Manor House from building remains, structural fragments and photographs (B9).

NRHE Insert 2005 (B12).

Sources (12)

<1>SBC7327 Bibliographic reference: T Langley. 1797. HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE HUNDRED OF DESBOROUGH PP453-454.
<2>SBC6907 Article in serial: Rev W Hastings Kelke. 1865. 'DESECRATED CHURCHES IN BUCKS: DEANERY OF WYCOMBE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 3 PP121-129. Vol 3, part 4. p126.
<3>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp106,107-109.
<4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume 1. Volume 1. pp323-324.
<5>SBC13367 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1932 12 PP336-338.
<6>SBC1119 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER,1932.
<7>SBC16539 Verbal communication: WHITE REV C N TO M E FARLEY & A R PIKE, MAY 1978.
<8>SBC5229 Unpublished document: Pauline Fenley. 1978. FENLEY MRS P DEC 1978 (SEE LETTER, NOTES, PLANS ETC).
<9>SBC15145 Article in serial: John Chenevix Trench & Pauline Fenley. 1981. 'Wooburn D'Eyncourt: A Lost Medieval Manor House', in Recs of Bucks 23 pp39-50. Vol 23.
<10>SBC26937 Article in serial: Anon. 1870. 'WOOBURN', IN RECS OF BUCKS 4 PP16-23 (& SEE ALSO ILLUSTRATION OPPOSITE P21). Vol 4, part 1.
<11>SBC28155 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 JRL 20-SEP-74.
<12>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	SU 90890 87780 (point)
Civil Parish	WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire