Community of the Knights Templar in Lindsey, England
St. John's Well The Victorian well house over the medieval well[1]The Templar's Bath The dipping well[1]
Bottesford Preceptory was sited at Bottesford, just to the south of Scunthorpe, in Lindsey, England. It was on low-lying land, near the Bottesford Beck, about 3 miles (5 km) to the west of the escarpment of the Lincoln Cliff limestone upland, and about the same distance to the east of the River Trent. A preceptory was a community of the Knights Templar who lived on one of that order's estates in the charge of its preceptor. A preceptory also referred to the estate and its buildings. The present Bottesford Manor is believed to have been the gatehouse to the preceptory.
Templars Bath, a spring in the field behind Bottesford Manor, is now hardly discernible, being simply a gathering of stones.[1] The bath has been attributed to the Romans but others believe it was a dipping bath or well used by the Templar workers. It was once used as a "magic" health-giving spring. Travellers would drink its waters and leave cloth offerings (a "rag well"). This healing property was probably associated with its position near a Templar hospital. The only distinctive Templar artefact found here was an ancient gravestone with a large cross upon it. It was covering a body buried in a grave that had been placed at the angle formed by the north wall of the chancel and the east wall of the north transept, though this description is inconsistent with a normal Templar round church.
Archaeologists excavated the Templar fields nearby in 1983, but little was found and the land was back-filled.
^ abcHistoric England. "St John's well (and the dipping well) (60786)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 20 January 2010.
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