Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A moated stone house apparently built by Geoffrey Lowther c.1430; it was sold by his brother Robert in 1448, at which point it was described as ‘all that his manor or tenement called the Moat in the parish of St Martin’s near Canterbury’. A map of c.1560 clearly shows a moated manor with a gatehouse in this vicinity, close to where the Canterbury/Sandwich road crosses the Lampen stream.

Monument Types

• MOAT (Medieval to Unknown - 1430 AD)
• MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to Unknown - 1432 AD)

Full description

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Possible former site of a moated stone house apparently built by Geoffrey Lowther c.1430; it was sold by his brother Robert in 1448, at which point it was described as ‘all that his manor or tenement called the Moat in the parish of St Martin’s near Canterbury’, as Sparks shows (1). It has been suggested that this manor was located close to where the Canterbury/Sandwich road crosses the Lampen stream (2): this proposal is based on documentary evidence including Canterbury Cathedral Archives Map 49 (c.1560): Estate Map: Map of Barton farm, St Paul's, Canterbury, showing St Augustine's abbey, the deer park, the Sandwich and Dover Roads, St Paul's and St Lawrence's hospital, which clearly shows a moated manor with a gatehouse in this vicinity.

<1> Margaret Sparks, 2016, Wyke (or Moat/Mote), near Canterbury, and the Finch Family (Article in serial). SKE51667.

<2> Tracey Dessoy, 2017-2022, Verbal communication from local researcher (Tracey Dessoy) (Verbal communication). SKE32144.

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