BARNACK MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Barnack Manor in historical Northamptonshire, with Pases as an alternative name. Independent historical evidence identifies the Barnack manor house as a high-status, moated manorial site at Barnack, and archaeological scholarship places the manor house within the manorial curia around St John the Baptist's Church. The 1307-1308 court roll lead is consistent with the documented medieval manor.
Representative point: 52.63479, -0.40262
Basis: documented_manor_house — The documented Barnack manor house, described as a fine moated high-status building, is located at approximately OS grid reference TF082053/TF08230534, east-north-east of St John the Baptist's Church. The coordinate is an approximate conversion of that historical site reference.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; exact period of the requested manor extent not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The sources establish the manor-house site and its location within a manorial curia, but do not provide a defensible polygon for the manorial landholding. The modern parish boundary, village envelope, and other administrative boundaries have therefore not been substituted for the historical manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Barnack Manor, MDR record F278622: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F278622 — Registry record for Barnack Manor, including the alternative name Pases and authority/reference GB/NNAF/M299847.
- Barnack Castle, The Gatehouse Gazetteer: https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/2985.html — States that Barnack's manor house was a fine, moated, high-status building and gives OS grid reference TF08230534; also states that no other manorial site in Barnack is indicated.
- Buildings of Secular and Religious Lordship, UCL doctoral thesis: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1396780/1/Shapland%20Tower%20Nave%20Thesis%20Redacted%20Vol%201.pdf — Figure 6.17 and accompanying discussion place the Barnack church within a distinct manorial enclosure or curia containing the manor house.
- Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, Part I: Barnack: https://fiftywordsforsnow.com/ebooks/domestic/domestic1.html — Describes the Barnack ancient manor house, its demolition around 1830, its association with the Earl of Exeter, and its ruined high-status character.
- St John the Baptist, Barnack, CRSBI: https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=8600 — Provides the authoritative location of the nearby parish church at approximately 52.63256, -0.40694, helping anchor the manorial-curia context.
- 1307-1308 court roll, WRO 9/30/24: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N16462584 — Existing MDR research lead for a medieval court roll associated with the manor-record research context.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The manor-house site is historically documented, but the exact building footprint and the full manorial land extent are not recoverable from the consulted sources.
- The returned point is suitable as a representative manor-site coordinate, not as a claim that the entire manor occupied only that point.
- No historical manor boundary polygon has been returned; the Barnack parish boundary and modern administrative boundaries were deliberately not used as substitutes.