Keldholme
A history of Keldholm and its Priory
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Keldholme overview
The picturesque
old dwelling standing on the site of this priory, by the banks of the Dove a
mile south of Kirbymoorside, bears few traces of its
predecessor, with the exception of the stone coffins built into the north wall
of the garden, visible from the highway. This once powerful Monastic
institution, like that of Rosedale, owed its origin to Robert De Stuteville,
the former owner of the moated castle ; after dedication to the Virgin Mary he
endowed it with all the cultivated lands to the north and south, including the
woods of " Ravenswyke," also the mill
adjoining, afterwards converted into a flax-mill, used as recently as 1824 ; it
has now entirely disappeared, the mill dam only remaining.
The importance of
this Priory may be realised from its numerous grants of land, amongst other
places at Barugh, Beadlam, Bransdale, Cropton, Edstone, Fadmoor, Gillamoor, Habton and Ingleby ;
it also had pasturage on the then unenclosed lands around Sinnington for 60
beasts and 400 sheep, which right had been partially continued to the time of
the enclosure in 1788, when the Earl of Scarborough was possessed of it.
(Ryedale and North Yorkshire antiquities, George Frank,
1888, page
133).
Keldholme Timeline
1200
Dugdale's Monasticon
says of this place Two charters of King John, both dated the 2nd year of his
reign, recite and confirm all Donations made to this Abbey whereof William
Stutevil was founder. The grant of Nicholas Stutevil gives to it four marks
yearly out of his mills at Gillamoor, and that of
William Habbeton, ten plough lands at Habbeton.
The Abby at Keldeholm
was founded for Nuns by William de Statevill, and endow'd
by the same William and several others of that Family. Confirm'd
by King John in the second year of his Reign,
1308
A catalogue of the Prioresses
included the following — Sibill, Emma de Stapleton
1308, Emma de Ebor 1317, Margaretta Aslaby, Alice Sonford
1406, Agnes Wandesford, Elena de Wandesford 1461,
Katherine Anlaghby, Elizabeth Darel (super-prioress of Basedale)
1497, Elizabeth Lyon 1534. (Ryedale and North Yorkshire
antiquities, George Frank, 1888, page
134).
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