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Aslackby Preceptory

Knights Templar preceptory, Lincolnshire, 12th–13th century

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Aslackby Preceptory in Lincolnshire lay to the south-east of Aslackby Church. Until about 1891 a tower, possibly of the preceptory church, together with a vaulted undercroft, survived as part the Temple farmhouse. Temple farmhouse was subsequently rebuilt and a 15th-century window and a stone pinnacle remain in the garden

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Presentation of Aslackby church (Dugdale)

1164

Preceptory foundation (alternative date)

1192

Tower construction

c. 1200

Suppression of the Templars

first decade of the 14th century

Later surviving architectural fragments

15th century

Farmhouse survival of medieval fabric

about 1891

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Vaults
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Towers
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United Kingdom

Coordinates

52.86° N, -0.39° E