Bottesford Preceptory

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.

Templars Bath, a spring in the field behind Bottesford Manor, is now hardly discernible, being simply a gathering of stones.

The only distinctive Templar artefact found here was an ancient gravestone with a large cross upon it.

Archaeologists excavated the Templar fields nearby in 1983, but little was found and the land was back-filled.

A small stone building with wrought iron gates against a long stone wall. Huge yew trees overhang the wall, and a straggly bit of ivy clings to theside of the well house
St. John's Well
The Victorian well house over the medieval well [ 1 ]
A shallow depression in the grass with a stone lined pit in the centre. It is surrounded by railings with a small interpretation board next to the gate. Behind the shallow depression is an earth bank, and behind that a row of recent houses. A large leafless tree is on the left
The Templar's Bath
The dipping well [ 1 ]