Great Wilbraham Preceptory

Great Wilbraham Preceptory is a preceptory in Great and Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Much of the Church of Saint Nicholas at Great Wilbraham dates back to 1226 when a preceptory was established here by the Knights Templar when the manor was given to Alan Martel, who was at that time Templar Master. There is a Templar tombstone hidden away under the tower and a Templar cross on the outside north wall. In the nearby village of Little Wilbraham, at Temple End, an Elizabethan manor house stands on the site of the preceptory. Previous to the ownership of the Templars, the lands were held by monks of Ely. At the dissolution of the Templar order, ownership passed into the hands of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.

There are some pictures and a description at the Cambridgeshire Churches website [1].

Pictures

• Church exterior
• St. Nicholas Roll of Honour

See also

• Knights Templar
• Knights Templar in England

References

• Conybeare, Edward Conybeare (1897). A History of Cambridgeshire. Original from Harvard University: E. Stock. p. 138. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Murray, John (1875). Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. Original from the New York Public Library: J. Murray. p. 399. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Lysons (1808). Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of Great Britain. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. 283. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)