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Wothorpe, ruins of hall (Religious Houses of Cambs, 1988)

Wothorpe Towers

History of Wothorpe Towers

Listed Building:

Ruins of a house built circa 1600 for Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, Lorn Burghley’s eldest son. Built of ashlar faced rubble.

It was briefly occupied by Royalists in the Civil War and later partly demolished and allowed to decay.

See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire

the Benedictine nunnery was founded during the12th century and was endowed with the rectory of the parish of Wothorpe. All the nuns died or fled during the Black Death and as a result the nunnery united with the adjacent one at Stamford St Michael.

At the Dissolution the manor, rectory and surrounds of the vicarage were granted to Richard Cecil. The village was already deserted and the parish church was demolished a hundred years later. The nunnery became a manor house before being replaced by Wothorpe Hall.

 

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