South Kyme

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Venue Type & Location

Private Residence

Site Name: South Kyme
Location: South Kyme
County: Lincolnshire
Location Type: Countryside - at determined location

Overview

The fortified stone manor house defended by a moat was located in the loop of the River Slea in flat fen countryside.

Only a single 4-storey residential tower faced with limestone ashlar and the remains of a moat survive. The adjacent hall range was demolished in the early 18th c. 'It is thought that this part of the building had a very low pitched roof with gargoyles on either side to carry off the water from it through the parapets.... According to Archdeacon Trollope, this hall was said "to have been adorned with carved figures of mounted knights, perhaps representing jousts"' (Newton, South Kyme 73).

Performance History

Possible performance venue. Entertainers belonging to the Tailboys family appeared elsewhere in the mid-15th c.

Current Status

Privately owned.

History of the Venue

ca. 1100 Manor granted to the Kyme family.

1338 Acquired by Robert de Umfraville via marriage with the Kyme heiress Lucy.

1350s Castle built by Sir Gilbert de Umfraville replacing older manor house.

1386 Ownership passed to Walter Tailboys, son of Gilbert's niece, Eleanor, and her husband Sir Henry Tailboys.

ca. 1530 Acquired by Sir Edward Dymoke via marriage to Anne Tailboys.

ca. 1700 South Kyme no longer used as a residence.

1720s Mostly demolished.

1730 Sold by Lewis Dymoke to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle.

1748 Sold to Abraham Hume.

1810 Passed via marriage to Earl Brownlow of Belton.

Record Source

REED York 1.69--70, 75--6

Patrons who owned this venue

Name Dates Titles
Tailboys, Walter 1350-1417 5th Baron
Tailboys, Walter 1391-1444 6th Baron
Tailboys, William 1416-1464 7th Baron , Earl of

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Allen, Thomas. The History of the County of Lincoln, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1834.
  • 'Castles and Country Houses, Monuments, and Collections of Pictures and Sculpture.' Archaeological Journal 103 (1946): 189–96.
  • Emery, Anthony. Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300–1500. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996–2006.
  • Mackenzie, James D. The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure. 2 vols. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1896.
  • Newton, Margaret. South Kyme: The History of a Fenland Village. South Kyme: Kyme Publications, 1995.
  • Pettifer, Adrian. English Castles: A Guide by Counties. Woodbridge: The Boydell P, 1995.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, and John Harris. Lincolnshire. 1964. The Buildings of England. London: Penguin Books, 1998.
  • Platts, Graham. Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire. History of Lincolnshire IV. Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee, 1985.
  • Salter, Mike. The Castles of the East Midlands. Malvern: Folly Publications, 2002.
  • Trollope, Edward. Sleaford, and the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn, in the County of Lincoln. London and Sleaford: W. Kent and Co.; William Fawcett, 1872.