Canonteign Barton
| Canonteign Barton | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Canonteign Barton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX83798312 |
| Location: | 50°38’10"N, 3°38’41"W |
| Village: | Christow |
| History | |
| Built Late 16th century | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Restored |
Canonteign Barton is an Elizabethan country house by Christow in the midst of Devon, presiding over the ancient manor of Canonteign at the edge of Dartmoor. Today It is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The house was built in the late sixteenth century, and after a period of decline it underwent a major restoration in the 1970s. It is built of local materials; stone rubble with granite dressings, and has a slate gabled roof.[1] As with many houses of the Elizabethen era, it is built as to its gorund plan in the shape of an "E", and studiously symmetrical
History of the manor
The manor of Canonteign is recored in the Domesday Book of 1086. In about 1125, Canonteign was given to the canons of St Mary du Val in Normandy,[2] and later conveyed to the Prior and convent of Merton, in Surrey.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the estate was granted to Lord John Russell, who received extensive lands in Devon at this time after the Reformation, and then passed through a series of , but was later sold.
During the Civil War, Canonteign Barton was garrisoned for the King and beseiged and taken by Fairfax in 1645.
In 1812, Sir Edward Pellew (later Lord Viscount Exmouth) bought the manor and the old house was reduced to a farmhouse (in local parlance a "barton" after 1828 when Lord Exmouth built Canonteign House close by. Thereafter it fell into decay and by the 1970s was semi-derelict until its thorough restoration in the 1970s.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1097834: Canonteign Barton (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Hoskins
- Hoskins, W.G.: 'Devon' (1972 edition), p. 366
- Lysons, D.: 'Devonshire' (1822), vol. II, p. 103-4