Knights Templar in Temple Cowley

Temple Cowley is named from the now lost preceptory of the Knight's Templar.  Brick and stone cottages lying amidst the 19th and 20th expansion act as reminders of its origins as a small village.  Today the area is perhaps better know as being the home of William Morris' first car factory, formerly the Military Academy, and later the Nuffield Press.

Area Excavated: 1m x 1.5m in lawn

Bartlemas Chapel

St Bartholomew’s Chapel (Bartlemas) lies within a small secluded fragment of medieval England, tucked away behind the busy Cowley Road.  The chapel, hospital building and chaplain or wardens house were founded in the early 12th century by Henry I to accommodate 12 lepers (known as brethren) and a chaplain. The site lay on a plateau within Cowley Marsh and had its own gardens, springs and holy well, and was surrounded by cultivated land, meadows for grazing animals, and woodland.