Otteham
Title
Otteham
Also Known As
Otham
Dates
Founded ca. 1180; dissolved 1526
Dedication
Laurence
Affiliation
Medieval Diocese
Circary
History
Founded ca. 1180 by Ralph de Dene, the Premonstratensians soon moved from Otteham to Bayham because the location was considered inhospitable for a large monastic community.
Otteham remained in the possession of the abbey of Bayham as a grange with an associated chapel. There is a surviving mid-14th-century chapel on the site.
Otteham remained in the possession of the abbey of Bayham as a grange with an associated chapel. There is a surviving mid-14th-century chapel on the site.
Status
Abbey; grange aft. 1208
Reference
Bibliography
Cooper, George Miles. “Researches into the History of the Abbey of Otteham.” Sussex Archaeological Collections 5 (1852): 155–76. https://books.google.ie/books?id=Zpk9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA155.
Page, William, ed. “Houses of Premonstratensian Canons: Abbey of Otham.” In A History of the County of Sussex, 2:86. London, 1973. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol2/p86.
Image Credit
Sketch of the chapel of Otteham, ca. 1850. George Miles Cooper, "Researches into the History of the Abbey of Otteham", 173.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Otteham,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/368.
Geolocation
Item Relations
| This Item | DependentOn | Item: Bayham |