Haccombe

Haccombe House and St Blaise's parish church
Setting of Haccombe House and St Blaise's parish church
St Blaise's Church, Haccombe

Haccombe is an historic manor in Devon, situated 2 1/2 miles east of Newton Abbot, in the south of the county. It is or was perhaps the smallest parish in England, and was said in 1810 to be remarkable for containing only two inhabited houses, namely the manor house known as Haccombe House and the parsonage.[1] The manor house survives in its Georgian early 19th century form,[2] but a mediaeval mansion house existed previously on the site.[3] Next to the manor house is the small parish church dedicated to St Blaise, remarkable for the many ancient stone sculpted effigies and monumental brasses it contains,[4] amongst the best in Devon.[5] The manor was the seat of important branches of the Courtenay and Carew families.

Descent of the manor

The descent of the manor of Haccombe was as follows:

de Haccombe

Arms of de Haccombe: Argent, three chevronels sable.[6] These arms were apparently also adopted by the Archdekne family, successors to de Haccombe[7]


The earliest recorded holder of the manor was the de Haccombe family,[8] which as was usual took its surname from the manor.

Archdekne

Arms of Archdekne: Argent, three chevronels sable,[13] apparently arms adopted from the de Haccombe family[14]

Courtenay

Arms of Courtenay: Or, three torteaux a label azure

Carew

Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable[20]

References

  1. Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.377
  2. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.464
  3. Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.402
  4. Pevsner, p.464
  5. Hoskins, p.402
  6. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.485
  7. Pole, p.468
  8. Risdon, p.140, who starts his passage with Stephen de Haccombe
  9. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.249
  10. Pole, p.249
  11. Pole, p.249
  12. Pole, p.249
  13. Pole, p.468
  14. Pole, p.485
  15. Pole, p.249
  16. Risdon, p.140
  17. Risdon, p.140
  18. Pole, p.249; Risdon, p.140
  19. Risdon, p.140
  20. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Carew Baronets, p.155; Baron Carew p.216
  21. Vivian, pp.134,245; Pole, p.249
  22. An heiress mother who was married to a wealthy husband frequently left her inheritance to a younger son, often with a stipulation that he should adopt her paternal surname and arms, in order effectively to continue a family which had expired in the male line. See for example Sir Theobald Gorges, the subject of the famous lawsuit Warbelton v Gorges
  23. Vivian, pp.134,144; Risdon, p.140
  24. Risdon, p.140
  25. Address of 10th Carew Baronet per Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.155; Haccombe Parva (Latin, "Little Haccombe"), Killiney, Co. Dublin, Ireland
  26. Vivian, p.144
  27. Vivian, p.145
  28. Risdon, p.140, who misses out a generation of de Veres
Secondary sources
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