Titchfield

Title

Titchfield

Also Known As

Funtley, Ticchefeud, Tichefell, Tichfield, Tychefelde, Tychefeud, Tychefield, Tychesfeld, Tychfeild

Dates

Founded 1222; dissolved 1537

Dedication

John the Evangelist; Mary

Affiliation

Welbeck

Medieval Diocese

Winchester

History

The abbey of Titchfield was founded in 1232 by Peter de Roches, Bishop of Winchester. The first brothers came from Halesowen. It was a small and moderately prosperous house, and was the last Premonstratensian abbey to be founded in England.

Following the suppression of the abbey in 1537, the property passed into private hands, and the monastic complex was converted into a private residence. The building was partly demolished in the late 18th century. Titchfield was partly excavated in the early 1900s.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Richard, 1222-?
Isaac, ca. 1239-ca. 1249
Henry de Branewyk, fl. 1249?
Henry de Spersholte, fl. 1272
Yvo
Adam, fl. 1281
William de Byketon (or Bickton), fl. 1290
John Sydemanton, fl. 1305/06
Roger de Candever, ca. 1309-ca. 1328
John de Combe, ca. 1329-ca. 1348
Peter de Wynton (or of Winchester), 1348-1349
William de Wallup, ?-1370
John de Thorny, 1370?-1390
John de Ramsey, 1390-?
Richard Aubrey, ca. 1431-ca. 1446
Thomas Bensteade, ca. 1453-ca. 1462
William Winchestour (or Fryer), ca. 1463-ca. 1470
William Auysten (or Aleyn), 1470-1485
Thomas Coyk (or Oke), ca. 1486-ca. 1508
Thomas Blankpayne, 1509-ca. 1529
John Maxey, ca. 1529-1536
John Simpson (or Salisbury or Thetford), 1536-1537

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

London, British Library

Add. 70506. (Late 14th c.; register)

Add. 70509. (Late 14th c.; court register)

Add. 70509. (Late 14th c.; rentals)

Add. 70509. (Early 15th c.; library catalogue)

Harleian MS 6602

Harleian MS 6603

Sloane 4935

London, Lambeth Palace Library

P.D. 106 (1477)

Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS. Bodl. 249. (14th c., Augustine, Commentary)

MS. Digby 154. (12th-14th c.; miscellany)

MS. Laud Misc. 357. (ca. 1200; miscellany)

Redruth, Kresen Kernow

PB/1/605

Winchester, Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

27A01/C58

4M53/B3 (1377)

4M53/I1 (1537)

46M48/1 (1537)

46M48/109 (13th-16th c.)

46M48/111 (mid-15th c.)

46M48/132 (1537)

5M50/1339 (1511)

5M53/18 (late 13th c.)

5M53/19 (late 13th c.)

5M53/20 (late 13th c.)

5M53/21 (1296)

5M53/183 (1283)

5M53/995 (1546)

94M84/4 (late 15th c. (later copy))

94M84/9 (1334 (later copy))

94M84/16

94M84/40

DC/M4/8/31 (1246)

Bibliography

Dickins, Bruce. “Premonstratensian Itineraries from a Titchfield Abbey Manuscript at Welbeck.” Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Literary and Historical Section. 4 (1938): 349–61.

Doubleday, H. Arthur, and William Page, eds. “Houses of Premonstratensian Canons: Abbey of Titchfield.” In A History of the County of Hampshire, 2:181–86. London, 1903. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol2/pp181-186.

Given-Wilson, Chris. “The Bishop of Winchester, the Abbey of Titchfield and the ‘Pretended Chapel’ of Hook, 1375–1405.” In People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod, edited by Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, and Anthony Musson, 137–56. Studies in Medieval History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Green, P.M., and A.R. Green. “Mediaeval Tiles at Titchfield Abbey, Hants., Afterwards Place or Palace House.” Hampshire Field Club 17 (1949): 6–29. http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1940s/vol17/Green&Green.pdf.

Hautenville-Cope, J. “The Catalogue of Titchfield Abbey.” Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 7, no. 3 (1916): 14–66. https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1910s/Vol_7/Hautenville-Cope.pdf.

John Hope, W. H. St. “The Making of Place House at Titchfield, Near Southampton, in 1538.” Archaeological Journal 63, no. 1 (January 1, 1906): 231–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1906.10853030.

Madden, F. “Abbats [Sic] of Tichfield Abbey, in Hampshire.” Collectanea Topographica  et  Genealogica 1 (1834): 14–16. https://archive.org/details/collectaneatopog01londuoft/page/14/mode/2up.

Minns, G.W. “Titchfield Abbey and Place House.” Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society 3, no. 3 (1898): 317–38. https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1885-99/Vol_3/Minns_pt3.pdf.

Prideaux-Brune, E.S. “On an Ancient Deed Between the Abbot of Titchfield and the Monks of Quarr.” Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 4 (1903): 177–82. http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1885-99/Vol_4/Prideaux-Brune.pdf.

Roberts, Edward. “Two Dated Monastic Buildings at Titchfield.” Hampshire Studies 55 (2000): 10–20.

Stevenson, Janet H. “The Last Days of the Abbeys of Durford and Titchfield and a Case of Mistaken Identity.” Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 71 (2016): 110–19. http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/2010s/Vol_71/s8.pdf.

Watts, D. G. “The Estates of Titchfield Abbey, c. 1245 to c. 1380.” B.Litt. Thesis, University of Oxford, 1957.

———. “The Villages on the Manors of Titchfield Abbey.” Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 21, no. 1 (1958): 31–37. https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1950s/vol21/Watts.pdf.

Watts, D. George. “Peasant Discontent on the Manors of Titchfield Abbey, 1245-1405.” Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 39 (1983): 121–35. https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1980s/vol39/Watts.pdf.

Wilson, Richard M. The Medieval Library of Titchfield Abbey. Leeds: Chorley & Pickersgill, 1940.

Image Credit

The remains of Titchfield Abbey, 2014. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Southern England

Citation

“Titchfield,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/114.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Welbeck
Item: Titchfield (St. Peter's) DependentOn This Item
Item: Corhampton DependentOn This Item
Item: Lomer DependentOn This Item
Item: Crofton DependentOn This Item