MONUMENT NO. 191830

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Site of a moated manor house and possible fishpond. The house was fortified without licence circa 1329. In 1866, an Elizabethan manor house and a building dated 1345 were recorded on the site. The 14th century building was serving as a barn. Both were probably demolished circa 1900.

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[ST 3429 1449] Manor House [G.T.] (site of) (1)

Collinson refers to Park Farm, Donyatt, 1/2 mile east of the church, as an ancient manor house, fortified in 2 Edw III (2).

The society visited the manor house in 1866, and a building dated 1345, described as having been a chamber attached to the manor house on one side of a quadrangle, was then in use as a barn. It had windows which appeared to be of 14th Cent. date, probably part of the original building. One window was of the Decorated Style. The main house was then Elizabethan (3).

The last remaining part of the manor house built in 1345, was recently pulled down [c.1900] and the material used in adjacent farm buildings (4)

There are now no remains of either building described by Authy 3. Bothare illustrated in Braikenridge(a)(See AO/65/231/2 & 3) and a comparison of these drawings with the Tithe Map suggests that the earlier building was at ST 3430 1447 and the Elizabethan house at ST34321445.

The remains of a dry moat can be traced on three sides of this site and it is said that the moat could be seen on the fourth side until the present farm buildings were erected c.1900. A large pond within the moated area may be a fishpond.Surveyed at 1:2500.

Medieval encaustic tiles in Taunton Museum (ACC 3193-4) presented by W.L. Radford in 1901 are described as "from the chapel at Park Farm", Donyatt. (5)

No change. (6)

The site has been surveyed as part of an ongoing programme of surveys of moated sites in Somerset by Somerset County Council. (7)

Listed as a possible castle by Cathcart King. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" (Prov) 1962

( 2) General reference

Hist of Somer 1 1791 35-6 (Collinson)

( 3) Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Bath

13 (1), 1867 Page(s)46-7

( 4) Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Object Name Book reference

ONB 1902-28 7 A W Hellian Agent

( 5a) General reference

Mss. Braikenridge's illustrated Collinson (Somer A & NHS Library)

( 5b) General reference

Tithe Map of Donyatt 1838

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 GHP 19-OCT-65

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F2 MJF 24-JUL-75

( 7) Moated Sites Research Group report

8, 1981 Page(s)24

(8) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)446

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