Barrow Camera

[1] A Camera is: "A residence used during short visits by an official and attendants of the Knights Hospitallers for administrative purposes on their estates.

[3] During the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189), Robert de Bakepuze donated the church and some land at Barrow upon Trent to the Knights Hospitaller of Yeaveley Preceptory, also in Derbyshire.

[5] By 1338 the camera is recorded as having a bailiff and an income of £30; Page, however, believed that it was "doubtful if regular brethren of the order were ever resident here".

[5] The Preceptory and Camera were suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries; its property and lands were confiscated in 1543 and granted by Henry VIII to Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy.

[4] Following the Dissolution were incorporated into Arlestone House Farmhouse which was constructed in the 16th–17th century, and is currently Grade II Listed.

Barrow Upon Trent Church construction began under the care of the Knights Hospitaller.
Areleston House from across the Trent and Mersey Canal .