User:Noswall59/The Grange, Broadhembury condensed

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Descent of the manor[edit]

The Domesday Book of 1086 records that, on the death of Edward the Confessor, Brictric, son of Algar, held Broadhembury.[1] But, by 1086 a man named Odo, son of Gamelin, held a fee in the hundred of Sulfretona incorporating the settlements of Broadhembury and Plymtree.[1][2] In 1166 Geoffrey de Hembury held Broadhembury for 1 fee of William de Toriton (d. 1233), nephew of William, son of Odo; William sold Broadhembury to William Briwere (d. 1227), who gave it to Dunkeswell Abbey (of which he was a founder) sometime before he died.[2] The modern estate is so named because it had been Dunkeswell Abbey's grange before the dissolution.[3] At the dissolution of the abbey, the lands were surrendered to the King in 1539. In the following July, Broadhembury was included among a royal grant of lands to John Russell, Baron Russell. However, shortly afterwards, the land reverted to the Crown, probably in exchange for other former monastic estates. In c. 1545, the king granted the manor and lands in Broadhembury to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton.[4]

The Grange was later acquired the Drewes of Sharpham and Killerton. J. L. Vivian records that Thomas Drewe "received Queen Elizabeth at the Grange".[4] Other accounts state that his son, Edward Drew, purchased The Grange from Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, the grandson of the Earl who was granted it.[5][6] Edward began work on building a house on the site.[5] After his death, the estate passed through his heirs male until the death of Major-General Francis Edward Drewe in 1891.[n 1] On his death The Grange was inherited by his sister Adéle Caroline, the wife of John Arthur Locke (died 1888), of North Moor House in Dulverton. After she died in 1895, the estate passed to her eldest son, Arthur Charles Edward Locke, who subsequently sold it.[8][9] Colonel Henry Bowden Gundry purchased the Grange in 1903; in 1914, he is listed as the lord of the manor.[10][11][12] He died, still lord of the manor, in 1916.[13] The estate was put up for sale again in 1921,[10] but Gundry's son, Henry Edward Bowden Gundry, was still living at the Grange ten years later;[14][15] he put the house, along with 500 acres of land, up for sale in 1964.[16] By the time he died in 1966, he was living at Bowerwood.[17] In 1997, Martin and Lindy Evans bought the house and refurbished it, before putting it up for sale in 2000.[18] The house sold for £1 million.[19] By 2009, it was owned by the television presenter Kirstie Allsopp.[20][21]Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ the estate passed to his eldest son, Sir Thomas Drewe, who died in 1651. His eldest son, William died in c. 1654; his only son, Edward, having predeceased him in 1630. The Grange passed to William's next younger brother, Francis Drewe (1604–c. 1675), who was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas Drewe (1635–1707). He left two daughters but no sons and the Grange passed to his younger brother, Francis Drewe (1636–1710), and then to the third brother, Edward Drewe, Canon of Exeter, who died in 1714; it passed to his only son, Francis Drewe (1673–c. 1734), who served as Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1714 to 1734, and then to his eldest son in turn, Francis Drewe (1712–c. 1773), who was High Sheriff of Devon in 1738. On his death, the estate passed to his eldest son Francis Rose Drewe (1733–1801), but he died childless and was succeeded by the next brother, Thomas Rose Drewe (1740–1815); the next brother, Richard Rose Drewe, having died in 1801, after Thomas Drewe's death in 1815, the estate was held successively by the next younger brothers, William Rose Drewe (1745–1821) and John Rose Drewe (1747–1830). The latter had married, and had two children, but his only son, Charles, died in 1801. On John Rose Drewe's death, the estates passed to his nephew Edward Simcoe Drewe, JP, DL (1805–1877) (he was the eldest son of Rev. Edward Drewe (1756–1810), the elder son of Francis Drewe (1712–c. 1773) by his second marriage; the sixth and youngest son by the first wife, Rev. Herman Drewe, rector of Wootton Fitz Paine, died in 1817 leaving only daughters). After Edward Simcoe Drewe's death in 1877, it passed to the Major-General, his eldest son.[7][8]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ a b Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association .... vol. 42 (July 1910). p. 238
  2. ^ a b "Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society", The Gentleman's Magazine, 1865, pt. ii (London: John Henry and James Parker), p. 71
  3. ^ M. A. P. and P. W. Hasler (1981). "Drew, Edward (c.1542–98), of Sharpham and Killerton, Devon." The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603; his younger brother was Richard Drewe, MP for Dartouth in 1589.
  4. ^ a b J. L. Vivian (1895). The Visitations of the County of Devon (Exeter: H. S. Eland). p. 306
  5. ^ a b H. L. (1904–05). "The Grange, Broadhembury". Devon Notes and Queries. vol. 3. p. 41
  6. ^ Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner (1992). The Buildings of England: Devon. 2nd ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press). p. 217
  7. ^ Bernard Burke, Ashworth Peter Burke (1894). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Harrison). vol. 1. pp. 539–540
  8. ^ a b E. G. Punchard (1904–05). "Heraldic scrolls at the Grange". Devon Notes and Queries. vol. 3. p. 44
  9. ^ "The Grange Estate". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 23 July 1902. p. 3
  10. ^ a b "Collumpton". Western Times. 19 August 1904. p. 12
  11. ^ Kelly's Directory of Devon and Cornwall. vol. 1 (1914). p. 115
  12. ^ "Lt.-Col. H. B. Grundy: Rotherham Howitzer Brigade Ex-Commandant Dead". Sheffield Independent. 21 September 1916. p. 3
  13. ^ "Broadhembury Funeral: Mrs. Elizabeth Gundry, of Sidmouth". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 5 August 1938. p. 5
  14. ^ "London Wedding". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 11 June 1931. p. 5. He married Rosemary Alice, daughter of H. Osborne, of Currandooley.
  15. ^ "Tithe Barns, Oasthouse and Cottages for Conversion". Times (London). 5 October 1964. p. 7
  16. ^ "Deaths". Times. (London). 10 June 1966. p. 2. He was survived by his wife, sons, John and George, and daughters Joanna and Susan.
  17. ^ Wilson, Mary (9 July 2009). "Too far from the madding crowd". The Times (London).
  18. ^ "It was a year of two halves". Western Morning News (Plymouth). 27 January 2001
  19. ^ "A walking tour of Broadhembury and St Andrew's Church, followed by a visit to the Grange, Broadhembury". 11 July 2009 (National Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings). p. 1
  20. ^ "I've found my perfect home in Devon, reveals TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp". Western Morning News. 15 December 2010
  21. ^ Beardsall, Jonny (5 July 2006). "Kirstie's great relocation". The Telegraph.
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