Listed Building record MDO27930 - Fryer Mayne House, West Knighton

Site of a manor house of the Knight's Hospitallers. The present house, built in around 1600, probably stands on the site. The Hospitaller's chapel is documented as being demolished in the 19th century.

The Knights Hospitallers had an ancient manor house at Fryer Mayne. In the early 19th century, Mr Cockerham the owner, removed the ruins of the chapel. <1>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 501 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 73738650) Fryer Mayne and remains of (NAT) Manor House (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 137 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(2) Fryer Mayne, manor house (737865), two-storeyed, has stone walls and tiled roofs. A medieval house of the Knights Hospitallers stood on this site, but the present house was probably built by John Williams soon after 1600. It probably consisted of three ranges round a courtyard open to the W., but the E. and S. ranges were rebuilt in the second quarter of the 19th century and the courtyard partly filled in. The N. range has a central projection of which the lower part forms a porch with original arched entrance; some of the stone-mullioned windows are also of the 17th century. The interior is entirely modernised, but reset in the hall and in the yard wall are 15th century stone corbels carved with angels and other stones carved with quatrefoils. In the garden wall are the moulded arch and broken bowl of a late mediaeval piscina, and other medieval worked stones reset to form an archway. The site of a deserted medieval village (Monument 19) lies to the N.W.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454079 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 2 2024 2:44PM