Grace Dieu Manor

Grace Dieu Manor is a 19th-century country house near Thringstone in Leicestershire, England, now occupied by Grace Dieu Manor School. It is a Grade II listed building.

Early history

The house is named afterr the adjacent Grace Dieu Priory, a priory founded in 1240 by Roesia de Verdun for fourteen Augustinian nuns and a prioress . It was dissolved in 1540 and granted to Sir Humphrey Foster, who immediately conveyed it to John Beaumont, who made it his residence.

Beaumont was Master of the Rolls. His son Sir Francis Beaumont was also a judge and his grandson John Beaumont was created the first of the Beaumont baronets of Grace Dieu in 1627. Sir Francis Beaumont's other son, also Francis Beaumont, (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist and poet, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

The third and last baronet died in 1686 and the estate was sold to Sir Ambrose Phillips (1637–1691) and became the Phillips family home. Phillips pulled down most of the priory church in 1696. On his death in 1796 the estate passed to his cousin Thomas March, who took the name Thomas Phillips.

Grace Dieu

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Grace Dieu (ship)

Grace Dieu was launched in 1418 as the flagship of Henry V of England and was one of the largest ships of her time. She sailed on only one voyage, and spent most of her life laid up in the River Hamble, where in 1439 she was struck by a bolt of lightning and burnt.

Design and construction

She was built to a three-layeredclinker-built design by William Soper, a burgess of Southampton and Clerk of the King's Ships. A dock was specially built for her construction near Town Quay in Southampton.

The remains of Grace Dieu suggest that it was built in a hurry. It was certainly not made to look good: some of the planks and ribs are roughly finished. It was a vast ship built with 2735 oak, 1145 beech, and fourteen ash trees, and mounted twelve cannon. The prow rose 50 feet above the waterline, providing a large and high platform for archers to rain death on smaller ships. It was 218 feet long and 50 feet wide, making it comparable in size to HMS Victory and twice the size of Mary Rose. Grace Dieu retained the clinker technique. The ship was triple clinker – three planks were nailed together with long iron rivets to provide a thick, reinforced hull waterproofed with tar and moss sandwiched between the planks. The shipwrights and carpenters who worked on her between 1416 and 1418 were experimenting in ship design, taking a Genoese ship and applying northern principles to the construction. It must have been a work of trial and error which explains the crudeness of its timbers.

Grace-Dieu

Grace-Dieu is a placename of Leicestershire, England, named after Grace Dieu Priory which fell into disrepair following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIIIth. The ruins are visible from the main road to Loughborough. Grace Dieu Manor was a private house but is now a preparatory school, Grace Dieu Manor School. It is near to Thringstone.

Gracedieu Vineyard is south facing and was established in 1991 in Charnwood Forest. Its 'Green Man' wine based on the Madeleine Angevine grape is known for its floral bouquet.

Coordinates: 52°45′32″N 1°20′56″W / 52.759°N 1.349°W / 52.759; -1.349