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PANFIELD
White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages
PANFIELD, or Pantfield, is a pleasant and salubrious village and parish on the western side of the vale of the river Pant, or Blackwater, 2 miles N.N.W. of Braintree. It contains 299 souls, and 1475 acres of land.
Panfield Hall, a fine old mansion, commanding extensive prospects, has been much altered by frequent repairs, but its quadrangular tower and handsomely clustered chimneys still retain their ancient appearance. It has long been occupied with the farm by the Lambert family, and belongs to Guy’s Hospital, London. It was built in 1546, and enlarged in 1583, by George Cotton, Esq., whose family obtained the estate by marring the heiress of the Langham family; before whom it had belonged to the Watervils.
Captain S. H. Henderson, John Bernard, Thomas White, and a few smaller owners have estates in the parish, mostly freehold. Near the church was a Priory, founded at a very early period, and made a cell to St. Stephen’s Abbey, in Normandy, in 1070,by Waleran Fitzralph, who endowed it with the little manor of Panfield. It was one of the alien priories seized by Edward II., in 1285. It was afterwards restored, but was finally suppressed in 1415, when it was granted by Henry V. to John Woodhouse, of Norfolk, to be held by the service of a red rose. It reverted to the Crown in 1460, and afterwards passed to the Bourchier, Capel, Wright, Wilson, and other families.
The Church (St. Mary and St. Christopher,) is a small neat structure, on an elevated site. It has a tower, containing three bells, and crowned by a shingled spire. The chancel is large in proportion to the nave, and has an elegant altar-piece, given by the Rev. Thos. Kynaston, a late rector; and several monuments belonging to the Cotton and other families.
The rectory, valued in K.B. at £10.10s., and in1831 at £349, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. R. L. Page, who has a good residence and 9a. of glebe.
Butcher John, blacksmith, wheelwright, and parish clerk
Newman John Baker, carpenter and vict. Bell Inn
Page Rev. Rt. Lemon, M.A., Rectory
Reynolds John, shoemaker
Willis John, bricklayer
Willis Martin, shoemaker
Willis Steel, bricklayer, shopkeeper, and beerhouse
Farmers (* are Owners.)
*Barnard John, Light Waters
Byford Henry, Lee Thongs
Challis Nancy, Perry Childs
Lambert John, Panfield Hall
Metson Stephen, Cold Hall
Pool George, Great Priory
Ratcliff John, Little Priory
*White Thomas, Panfield Farm
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
PANFIELD, or PANTFIELD, a parish in Braintree district, Essex; near the river Pant, 2 miles NW by N of Braintree r. station. Post-town, Braintree. Acres, 1,475. Real property, £2,532. Pop., 308. Houses, 71. The property is much subdivided. Panfield Hall was built in 1546; and is a fine structure, with square tower and clustered chimneys. A Benedictine priory was built, about ½ a mile N of the church, in 1250; was a cell to Caen abbey in Normandy; came to the Crown in 1460; was given, at the dissolution, to Sir Giles Capel; and has left no remains. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £502. Patron, the Rev, E.J. Hill. The church, in the Perpendicular style, is a small handsome edifice, beautifully restored.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
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