Commandery of Aslackby

The Commanderie d' Aslackby was drawn up where the village of Aslackby is today, in the Lincolnshire (the United Kingdom). A building templier was partly integrated besides into the structure of the one of the village houses.

History

Time of Templiers

The Commanderie was founded in 1192, whereas there were already a small castle and a village on the site of Aslackby. There remain almost nothing of its original structure, but descriptions and the sketches of time seem to show that the church of the commandery was similar to that of the Temple Bruer, made up of an Eastern chorus with Abside and of a round nave directed towards the west. It was besides the usual plan for the churches of Templiers, since it reproduced that of the Église of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. A famous example of this type of structure is the Église of the Temple to London. Thereafter, the two churches of Lincolnshire were enriched by turns - with regard to Aslackby, the addition (in the south of the nave) date apparently of the whole beginning of the XIIIe century.

The honor of Craon was divided, and the third of a tax of knight was granted to Templiers, which managed it since Aslackby.

Time of the Hospital ones

To dissolution about Templiers in 1312, the majority of the goods were transferred to another order, that of the Hospitaliers. But while Templiers had been created to protect the pilgrims in Jerusalem, the Hospital ones had the additional task to place them.

Under the responsibility of Hospital, Aslackby was not managed like a commandery strictly speaking, since 1312, the field was put in Fermage. Until dissolution about the Hospital ones in England, in 1540 - 1541, the field of Aslackby was supervised since Temple Bruer, so that the buildings lost their particular status at the beginning of the XIVe century, contrary with the majority of the masonries of English monasteries which continued to be used until the XVIe century. In 1539, the buildings of Aslackby were in ruins. After the dissolution of the houses of Hospital in England, the grounds of Aslackby were entrusted to the secular hands of Lord Clinton.

Internal bonds

List of the commanderies templières in the Midlands of the East

External bonds

Photography of the church of the commandery of Aslackby
Photography of the manor of Aslackby

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