Great Wilbraham Preceptory

Great Wilbraham Preceptory is a 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.

Pictures

* [http://www.ely.anglican.org/bells/cambridge/pix/greatwilbraham.jpgChurch exterior]
* [http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/images/WilbrahamStNicholasRoll.jpgSt. Nicholas Roll of Honour]

See also

* Knights Templar
* Knights Templar in England

References

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last =Conybeare
first =Edward Conybeare
authorlink =Edward Conybeare
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title =A History of Cambridgeshire
publisher =E. Stock
date =1897
location =Original from Harvard University
pages =page 138
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last =Murray
first =John
authorlink =
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title =Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire
publisher =J. Murray
date =1875
location =Original from the New York Public Library
pages =Page 399
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=3-UuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA399&dq=Great+Wilbraham+Preceptory&as_brr=1
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first =
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coauthors =Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons
title =Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of Great Britain
publisher =Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies
date =1808
location =
pages =Page 283
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=-zwJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA283&dq=Great+Wilbraham+Preceptory&as_brr=1
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