Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Chtcfcsano ^riorp, Beofortjgfttre; THE SEAT OF SIR JOHN OSBORN, BARONET. About the year 1150, Pain de Beaucharap and Roese his wife, relictof JefFery de Mandeville, founder of Walden Abbey, established aPriory at Chicksand for Nuns and Canons of the Order of St. Gilbert ofSempringham ; which in 1538 was dissolved, and in the following yeara grant was made of its site to Richard Snow. Towards the closeof Queen Elizabeths reign, it was purchased of the Snow family by SirJohn Osborn, Knight, ancestor of the p
Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Chtcfcsano ^riorp, Beofortjgfttre; THE SEAT OF SIR JOHN OSBORN, BARONET. About the year 1150, Pain de Beaucharap and Roese his wife, relictof JefFery de Mandeville, founder of Walden Abbey, established aPriory at Chicksand for Nuns and Canons of the Order of St. Gilbert ofSempringham ; which in 1538 was dissolved, and in the following yeara grant was made of its site to Richard Snow. Towards the closeof Queen Elizabeths reign, it was purchased of the Snow family by SirJohn Osborn, Knight, ancestor of the present proprietor. At this timethe Mansion is the residence of Thomas Potter Macqueen, Esq., thecounty member. The Priory, which is in the Hundred of Clifton, about a mile fromShefford, remains extra-parochial, and exhibits, as will be seen in theannexed Plate, much of a monastic appearance. The principal or car-riage front has on the ground-floor seven trefoil-headed windows, withlabels ; in the centre is a porch with pinnacles richly ornamented; thesecond story has the same number
Size: 1226px × 2038px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthornealejo, bookcentury1800, booksubjecthistoricbuildings
