Chantry Lands
With the Dissolution of the Monasteries 1536-1558 church lands were sold off .
The squirarchy paid the full price for monastic property , such men would not have had the large sums of ready money and so purchased what they could. These man included Sir John Fulford; Sir Hugh Stukely and Sir Richard Edgecumbe father of Johanna who married Thomas Pomeroy
Notes from the book by Joyce Youings- Calender of Particulars for Grants 1536-1558
Sir Thomas Pomeroy and his brother Hugh of Tregony purchased some Chantry lands
CF/1/156/1,2 22 July 1549 Contents: Grant (copy and translation).
Letters patent of Edw. VI to Thos. and Hugh Pomeroy.
Free chapel of Menacuddell now dissolved, late in occ. of Jn. Delamayne.
CF/1/157/1,2 15 July 1551 Contents: Bargain and sale (copy).Thos. Pomeroy, knight, and Hugh Pomeroy, esq., to Matthew Colyns
Free chapel of Menacuddle, lately dissolved.Not far from St Austell There was a chantry chapel documented in Menacuddle in 1291, and dissolved in 1519.
In the Middle Ages, the most important chapel in the area adjoined this well house, although no trace of it now remains. Because of its proximity to the road, it is a marvel that the current structure survives at all. The well house butts tightly against the twenty foot high wall
On 21 July 1549, Thomas Pomerey, knight, and his brother Hugh; obtained chantry lands and advowsons:
Chantry of Helston,
Collegiate College of St Buryan, Cornwall
Chantry of Comb Raleigh, Devon; other sources give this to Sir Edward Seymour
The fraternity of Davidstowe, Cornwall;
Holy Trinity in St Columb;
St Wynnowe Cornwall;
Heanton Punchardon, near Barnstaple in North Devon;
Lady Park, Liskeard;
Dawlyshe (Dawlish near Teignmouth in Devon)
(All of the above to both Thomas and Hugh and their heirs);
Other lands devised to heirs of Sir Thomas, only:
Dawlyshe (Dawlish) is to go to wife Joan, and her heirs;
(Heirs male of son Thomas, Esq, and default to Arthur Pomeroy, Esq; then other heirs of Sir Thomas
including Shillingham. (Shillingham is in St Stephen's by Saltash, Cornwall.)
Also Stokenham,near Kingsbridge in Devon;
In a side membrane, apart from the above named;
For Sir Thomas as the heir (not Hugh) :
chantry lands at St Stephen near Saltash;
also of the prebend of St Probus (Cornwall)
Chantry in the parish of Sylverton;
the college of Glasney alias (at) Penryn, Cornwall.
Plympton Church,
the Chantry of Ermyington;
Lanteglos, by Camelford, Cornwall;
Chantry in St Columb Nether or Minor
Chapel of Menacudell, St Austell, Cornwall,
and a chantry in East Coker, in Somerset.
EAST COKER http://www.eastcokerparish.com/local-history-2/
15th C Coker Court contains in its fabric 15th c elements Naish Priory and Hymerford all date from around that time Naish Priory might have been built by Courtenay.
Dissolution of the Monasteries 1536, smaller monasteries, Glastonbury held a small property partly in West Coker and partly in East Coker and Hartingdon.
1542 Dissolution of the Chantries Chapel of Holy Cross in St Michael's Church was stripped of its valuables and the chantry priest pensioned off. The chantry holdings went to the Crown.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_South_Somerset
Menacuddle Chantry
2 miles S.W. of Yeovil, East Coker
Naish Priory in East Coker, Somerset, Designated as a Grade I listed building with the attached Priory Cottage and northern boundary railings
There are portions of a substantial house dating from the mid 14th century to around 1400, with C19 and C20 additions. Local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings; stone slate and plain clay tile roofs between coped gables; stone chimney stacks, some octagonal with quatrefoil panel decoration.
It was not a priory & there appears no evidence of ownership by a religious house or the residence of a large community of monks on the site. However, there is evidence of a dormitory and communal living dating from the 14th century.
The extant buildings grew on a foundation that had religious obligations by way of chantry.
Probably built between 1400 and 1410 by a member of the Courteney family with court and ecclesiastical connections, especially with Henry IV and Joan of Navarre.
NOTES Cut& PAste Feb 2024
On 21 July 1549, Thomas Pomerey, knight, and his brother Hugh; obtained chantry lands and advowsons:Sir Thomas Pomeroy and his brother Hugh of Tregony purchased some Chantry lands
CF/1/156/1,2 22 July 1549 Contents: Grant (copy and translation).
Letters patent of Edw. VI to Thos. and Hugh Pomeroy.
Free chapel of Menacuddell now dissolved, late in occ. of Jn. Delamayne.
CF/1/157/1,2 15 July 1551 Contents: Bargain and sale (copy).Thos. Pomeroy, knight, and Hugh Pomeroy, esq., to Matthew Colyns
Free chapel of Menacuddle, lately dissolved.Not far from St Austell There was a chantry chapel documented in Menacuddle in 1291, and dissolved in 1519.
In the Middle Ages, the most important chapel in the area adjoined this well house, although no trace of it now remains. Because of its proximity to the road, it is a marvel that the current structure survives at all. The well house butts tightly against the twenty foot high wall
Chantry of Helston,
Collegiate College of St Buryan, Cornwall
Chantry of Comb Raleigh, Devon; other sources give this to Sir Edward Seymour
The fraternity of Davidstowe, Cornwall;
Holy Trinity in St Columb;
St Wynnowe Cornwall;
Heanton Punchardon, near Barnstaple in North Devon;
Lady Park, Liskeard;
Dawlyshe (Dawlish near Teignmouth in Devon)
(All of the above to both Thomas and Hugh and their heirs);
Other lands devised to heirs of Sir Thomas, only:
Dawlyshe (Dawlish) is to go to wife Joan, and her heirs;
(Heirs male of son Thomas, Esq, and default to Arthur Pomeroy, Esq; then other heirs of Sir Thomas
including Shillingham. (Shillingham is in St Stephen's by Saltash, Cornwall.)
Also Stokenham,near Kingsbridge in Devon;
In a side membrane, apart from the above named;
For Sir Thomas as the heir (not Hugh) :
chantry lands at St Stephen near Saltash;
also of the prebend of St Probus (Cornwall)
Chantry in the parish of Sylverton;
the college of Glasney alias (at) Penryn, Cornwall.
Plympton Church,
the Chantry of Ermyington;
Lanteglos, by Camelford, Cornwall;
Chantry in St Columb Nether or Minor
Chapel of Menacudell, St Austell, Cornwall,
and a chantry in East Coker, in Somerset.
The Manor of East Coker was held by the Courtenay family of Powderham from 1306 until 1591. They built Coker Court as the manor house which was eventually sold to Edward Phelips, a wealthy landowner in the region. Upon Edward's death, the manor was left to his trustee, William Helyar, whose family it descended into for the next 300 years. After the last Helyar heir died in the first half of the 20th century, the lordship was acquired by a descendant of the Courtenay family who is the current lord of the manor. [5]
Coker Court was built as a 15th-century manor house, and is now divided into several properties. The 18th-century portion was built by Sir William Chambers. It was used as Clare School at one time. It is listed Grade I.[11]
Helyar Almshouses built between 1640 and 1660.
Hymerford House (also known as Grove Farmhouse) dates from the 15th century and is listed Grade I.[12]
Naish Priory listed Grade I contains extant portions of a substantial and important establishment that was part of the manor of Coker and dates from the 14th century.[13]
The church of St Michael in East Coker dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[20] The church is the final resting place of the ashes of T. S. Eliot, whose ancestors came from the village.[21]
There can't be many villages of this size that have a trio of Grade I Listed buildings. All of East Coker's are privately-owned but are nevertheless visible from public road or footpath. Naish Priory has portions dating back to the 14th century. Hymerford House, at the village's north end, by the mill stream, is 15th century, whilst just south-west of the church is Coker Court, the manor house, which is essentially Tudor. There's a central 15th century hall with perpendicular windows and a robust-looking porch. The east range is later (late-18th century with Venetian windows). Some of this can be viewed from the drive and a row of yews leads from church to manor.
Lords of the Manor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_manor
https://www.eastcokerparish.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maritime-Heritage-Walk.pdf
Between 1762 and 1878, East Coker manufactured the finest sailcloth as well as ropes and twine. The sails of Nelson’s Victory were made from “Cokercloth” and it was used by all the best yachts.
Flax had been grown locally for many years and evidence of the “retting ponds” for treating the fibres still exists in fields around the village
The dozen Helyar almshouses at the foot of the path leading to the church are mid-17th century (c1640). They took 20 years to finish because of the distractions of the English Civil War and that plague (1645) and were intended for 11 women and one lucky man. They have gabled dormers, mullioned windows and lofty chimneys: they're characterful and still almshouses to this day. The Helyar family, who built them, lived at Coker Court for hundreds of years.
East Coker Mill A Grade II Listed Building, sometimes called “North Coker Mill”; it is a former water mill and mill house of the late 18th century.
George Victor Lewis who had run a family butchers and poulterers in East Coker took over the mill in 1918 setting up business as a miller and corn merchant grinding barley meal, maize and crushed oats until the Second World War.