Bagot Manor Farm
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Bagot Manor Farm
Other names
- Old Bagot Manor
- Old Bagot Manor Farm
Location
Bagot Manor Road, St Saviour
Type of property
Farmstead, previously attached to manor
Valuations
The property has not changed hands recently and does not appear in the database of transactions
Families associated with the property
In the 19th century Bagot Manor Farm was owned by the Gosset, Vautier, Payn and Le Boutillier families before being acquired by Philippe Jean Picot from Laura Le Boutillier in 1895. The farmhouse remained in the Picot family until 1927 when it was purchased by farmer Walter Philip Mourant
- Bandinel
- Messervy
- Picot: In 1901 farmer Philip John Picot (1868- ) and his wife Alice Jane, nee Mourant (1867- ) were living here with their daughter Alice Frances (1895-1981)
- Mourant: During the German Occupation the property was occupied by Walter Philip Mourant (1895- ), his wife Olive Mary, nee Gallichan (1899- ) and their sons Graeme (1923- ) and Roy (1924- )
Datestones [1]
- GB 1731 - for George Bandinel [2]
- PM MP 1628 - For Philippe Messervy (Seigneur of Bagot) and Marie Pipon (St S), who married in August 1616; with heraldic devices in shields for each family and a fleur-de-lis above the date [3]
History
There was a house on this site, accompanied by a chapel, a vivier and a colombier, from 1500, or even earlier. Since then it appears that there have been probably three replacement houses, although two were standing together for a long period.
Benjamin La Cloche’s diary refers to the rebuilding of the eastern end of the manor in 1637, followed three years later by the rebuilding of the western end. This house, which was the home of the distinguished miniaturist Isaac Gosset and his family, was demolished in 1935. A benétier was discovered, which is now in the hands of La Société Jersiaise.
Today’s house dates from the early 18th century, and it is known that it took the place of an older house facing south.
It was Philippe Messervy, son of Philippe, son of Richard, who underook the alterations in 1637 and 1640. The tenure of the younger Philippe, born in 1594 and married to Marie Pipon in 1616 is recorded in one of the four engraved stones at the property. The stone is dated 1628, and presumably coincided with some alterations prior to the major rebuilding the following decade.
Another records the marriage in 1559 of his grandfather Richard Messervy to Mabel Dumaresq, widow of Thomas Lempriere. The three family arms are included on the stone, as is that of the de Carterets, although why this should be is not known.
The property passed from the Messervys on the marriage of Rachel Messervy to David Bandinel in 1657. A further stone from 1731 carried the initials of their son George.
Thought to have been built in the 17th to early-18th century, Bagot Manor Farm takes its name from the old Bagot Manor which was located to the south of the farmhouse until the manor was demolished in 1935.
It was Walter Philip Mourant who, along with Captain Robin of Petit Menage, in 1961 objected to the proposed compulsory purchase of part of what was agricultural land including at Bagot Manor Farm. While Captain Robin eventually sold his land in 1969, Walter Mourant, who had purchased Bagot Manor Farm in 1927 from Reginald Picot, held firm, and the property remains standing to this day.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Bagot Manor found itself at the centre of two controversies. In 1886 the owner of Bagot Manor, Philippe Gosset, who held a dual role as manager of the Jersey Banking Company and Treasurer of the States, was found guilty of embezzlement of public monies, resulting in his assets, including the property, being liquidated and sold. However, the Bagot Manor in question was not the actual manor, but a property on the other side of Longueville Road named on the 1849 Godfray Map as ‘Petit Bagot‘.
In 1923, the manor was picked as the fictional address of a fake filmmaking company which scammed islanders into giving up their money for a non-existent chance to appear on the silver screen.
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Historic farmstead associated with Bagot Manor. Principally 19th century farmhouse, with earlier 17th century origins, and extensive range of associated buildings retaining original features, character and integrity as a farm group. Associated manor demolished 1935. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. Historic farm group. Ruins of probable 18th century house in field.
Old Jersey Houses
The property was sold by Matthew Gosset to Jean Vautier in 1902, and the contract mentions le colombier, le douet, la fontaine, le vivier ou étang, le droit de chapelle, la Chapelle de St André, ci devant située proche le susdit manoir de Bagot, tombée en ruines. (The dovecot, stream, spring, vivier or pond, the right of chapel, the Chapel of St Andre, anciently situated near the said manor, and now fallen in ruins.
As Joan Stevens records in Volume 1:
- "This confirms that there was a manorial chapel there, dedicated to St André. There is a field known as Jardin de la Chapelle. An entry in the Registry of the Secretariat of the See of Coutances (1487-1557) says: 'On the twentieth day of the aforementioned month (March) for a licence to celebrate in a certain chapel of St André recently erected in the parish of St Saviour in the island of Jersey'. A further entry for 1496 says: 'The fifteenth day of April there was granted licence for celebration in the chapel of St André founded in the parish of St Saviour in the Island of Jersey".
