MRP: Wingham Mansion or Wingham Court

Wingham mansion or Wingham court

Editorial history

02/12/11, CSG: Restructured page

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Suggested links

See Wingham

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Images

The antient seat of the Palmers at Wingham, 1794

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Wingham college and church, 1808

An engraving entitled Wingham College and Church, dated 1808, shows the Palmer's house to the right of the parish church.

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Image credits

(1) 'The antient seat of the Palmers at Wingham, plate in Kentish Register and Monthly Miscellany (?London, November 1794), betw. p. 1442 & 443
- Book and image are out of copyright

(2) 'Wingham College and Church', plate in E.W.Brayley, XXXX (XXXX, XXXX), vol. 8 (London, 1808), betw. p. 1090 & 1091
- Book and image are out of copyright

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Profile of Wingham Mansion (alias Wingham Court)

Wingham Mansion, also known as Wingham Court, was a mansion house owned by the Palmer family, located close to Wingham parish church, and about one mile to the north of the Oxenden's mansion house of Deane.

The Palmer family's residence in Wingham dated to the purchase by Sir Henry Palmer of the grant of the college of Wingham, following the dissolution of ecclesiastical property, which Sir Henry and later Palmers then made their seat. An engraving in the Kentish Register and Monthly Miscellany shows a close up of the Palmer's house.

Dorothy Gardiner states in her notes to a letter from Sir Thomas Palmer to Sir James Oxenden that "the house stood immediately to the east of the church, behind a tall old red brick wall which still borders the highway." "Within living memory", she states, "it was described by old people in the village, who could recall its demolition, as the Mansion, or Wingham Mansion."

However, John Mockett states in a book published in 1836 that from the tower of Wingham parish church "I discovered that the fine old mansion house, and very extensive premises, called Wingham Court, had lately been pulled down."

There is clearly some confusion as to the precise location and identity of the Palmer mansion, since English Heritage lists "Wingham Court and Garden Wall" as a Grade 2 listed building, and identifies this as the manor house of the Archbishop's manor of Wingham.

Hasted records that Sir Thomas Palmer's grandfather was well known for his hospitality at his mansion, a custom which, from the correspondence of Sir James Oxinden and his son Henry Oxinden of Deane, appears to have continued to the grandson's residence at the mansion in Wingham.

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Sources used

Letter from Sir Thomas Palmer to Sir James Oxinden of Deane, MS. 27,999, f. XXX
Letter from Henry Oxinden of Deane to Henry Oxinden of Barham (his cousin): Letter 1, MS. 27, 999, f. 308
- Hasted, Edward, 'Parishes: Wingham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, vol.9 (1800), pp. 224-241
Mockett, John, Mockett's Journal: a collection of interesting matters relating to remarkable personages, ancient buildings, manners and customs, &c., beginning from the 50 : also, particulars of various churches, origin of the reculvers, parochial matters to St. Peter's (Canterbury, 1836), p.189
- English Heritage listing for "Wingham Court and Garden Wall, Wingham," ID 178374

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Notes

Lady Palmer, 1666

My Lady Palmer does modestly enquire after her adventure (sometimes) of twenty ??pounds in Gould she gave you

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