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The Guest house of the Knights of St John is a stone building located in Wiltshire that dates to the medieval period and represents the architectural heritage of the Knights Hospitaller in England. The structure reflects the order's extensive landholdings and charitable activities during the Middle Ages, when the Knights maintained numerous properties throughout England to support pilgrims and travellers. The building's physical fabric demonstrates characteristic medieval construction techniques and planning appropriate to its function as accommodation for guests of the order. As a surviving example of monastic or military order domestic architecture, the structure contributes to understanding the physical infrastructure and daily operations of the Knights of St John in medieval England.
Guest house of the Knights of St John is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005648. View the official record →
The Guest house of the Knights of St John is a stone building located in Wiltshire that dates to the medieval period and represents the architectural heritage of the Knights Hospitaller in England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005648.
Guest house of the Knights of St John is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005648.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Woodcutts Common, 850m south east and 845m SSE of Arundell Cottages (8.3 km), Bowl barrow in Barrow Coppice, 660m north of Wayside Cottage (8.5 km), Scrubbity Barrows: a round barrow cemetery in Scrubbity Coppice (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Guest house of the Knights of St John's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Guest house of the Knights of St John stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.