The fine Elizabethan residence of the Manwood family was located next to the churchyard in the small village of Hackington on the outskirts of Canterbury. It appears to have had a walled courtyard surrounded by a number of outbuildings. These buildings featured large chimney stacks and generous, wide multi-paned windows, while the main portion of the house included decorative crenellated towers and an arched doorway.
A trumpeter patronized by Sir Roger Manwood appeared at Canterbury in the 1580s but no entertainers who may have performed for him at Place House have been discovered.
Demolished.
1227 Archbishop Stephen Langton built a residence for his brother, Simon, archdeacon of Canterbury, next to St Stephen's Church. Used by successive archdeacons until the Dissolution.
1530s Sought after and likely granted to Sir Christopher Hales (Hasted, History of Kent 9.46).
ca. 1550 Reverted to the Crown.
1563 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor to Sir Roger Manwood who rebuilt the house, probably on the same site.
1642 John Manwood sold the property to Sir Thomas Colepepper, former lieutenant of Dover Castle.
1675 Sold to Sir Edward Hales of Tunstall.
1759 Edward Hales pulled down Manwood's residence and built a new house, called Hale's Place, on a different site to the NE of St Stephen's Church.
1880 The estate came into the hands of the Jesuits and was known as St Mary's College.
1928 College closed and buildings demolished. The former manor is now a housing complex.
REED Kent: Diocese of Canterbury 1.218
| Name | Dates | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Hales, Christopher | 1488-1541 | Knight |
| Manwood, Roger | 1532-1592 | Knight |
