The Gatehouse website record for Fawley Court

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Fowley, Divine Mercy College

In the civil parish of Fawley. In the historic county of Buckinghamshire (Modern Authority of Buckinghamshire, 1974 county of Buckinghamshire).

Country house constructed in 1684, possibly to designs by Sir Christopher Wren, on the site of an earlier manor house. Foundations of fortified house said to lie under later building. There is a C12 doorway reset in a dairy which, even if from an ecclesiastical building as suggested by the VCH, implies this was the manorial centre from that date, despite being some distance from the parish church. 200 acres of deer park and the asserted right to fishing in the adjacent Thames suggest the reason for unusual location. The tenurial history, held for a knights fee by a sub tenant, is not inconsistent with a small fortified manor house but there does not seem to be any real evidence of medieval fortification here. The house was attacked in the Civil War, which might weakly suggest there was something defensive about it then, but has been completely rebuilt and the landscape remodelled so that not even a moat survives.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU76528421

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 245262
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 0193901000 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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