Venue Type & Location
Overview
Located near the main road from London to Canterbury, the manor house of the Savage family may have been adjacent to the site of the present church. A Georgian house named Bobbing Court may sit on the flint and ragstone foundations of the medieval residence.
Performance History
A probable performance venue. Sir Arnold Savage's minstrels performed at Boxley Abbey in the late 14th c. and they probably also performed at his residence though household accounts do not survive.
Current Status
History of the Venue
late 12th c. Ralph de Savage purchased the manor from the Molynes family.
1420 Sir Arnold Savage's sister Eleanor, married to William, son of Sir Lewis Clifford (d 1404), inherited the manor and took the property into the Clifford family.
1603 Sir Conyer Clifford's (d 1599) widow Anne bequeathed the property to her 3 sons who sold it to Sir Edward Duke of Cossington, Kent. Sir Edward sold Bobbing to Sir Richard Gurney (d 1647), alderman and Lord Mayor (1641) of London, who gave it to his brother-in-law Henry Sandford.
17th c. Acquired by Sir George Moore, baronet, via marriage to Henry Sandford's daughter.
ca. 1700 Sold by Robert Crayford, 3rd husband of Moore's widow, to Thomas Tyndale of North Nibley, Gloucestershire.
1748 William Tyndale had the mansion demolished.
Record Source
REED Kent: Diocese of Canterbury 2.908
Patrons who owned this venue
| Name | Date | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Savage, Arnold | 1358-1410 | Knight |
Bibliographic Sources
- Brayley, E.W. The Beauties of England and Wales; or Delineations, topographical, historical and descriptive of each county. 18 vols. London: Vernor and Hood, 1801--16
- Fairley, Michael, Peter Judges and Dorothy Fairley. Bobbing: Two Thousand Years of Kentish History. Potters Bar: Mifair Publishing, 2007
- Harris, John. The History of Kent. London: D. Midwinter, 1719
- Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. 1st ed [1778]. 12 vols. Canterbury: Printed for the author by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778
- Newman, John. North East and East Kent. Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1983
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Philipott, Thomas [and John Philipott]. Villare Cantianum: Or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. 1659. London: William Godbid, 1664
- Roskell, J.S. 'Sir Arnald Savage of Bobbing: Speaker for the Commons in 1401 and 1404.'. Archaeologia Cantiana 70 (1956): 68--83.