This brief descriptive history has been edited by David Harding and produced by The Friends of Croxley Great Barn in association with The Three Rivers Museum Trust: Chair Barbara Owen, The Rickmansworth Historical Society: Secretary Ann Vernau, who have provided much assistance, information and some archive photographs. Any corrections, amendments and additions will be most welcome.

Photographers and others have been individually credited where known but we are in addition greatly obliged to the following for information, advice and permission to use writings or photographs:

Dr Martin Bridge, Stephen Castle, Heather Falvey, Mary Forsyth, Adrian Gibson, Len Leach, Roger Miles, English Heritage National Monument Record Centre, and finally the Master and Fellows of Gonville & Caius College and their archivist Gemma Bentley.

This is a private web site run by David Harding and is a repository for information from all sources.

 

 

1396/1401    Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani p 447

1793    P Newcome, The History of the Abbey of St Albans p 286

1870    E J Cussans, History of Herts. p 130

1904    D Moul & F G Kitton, Picturesque Hertfordshire p 33

1908    Victorian County History Vol 2 pp 379, 400

1910    Royal Commission on Historic Monuments-Herts. p 171-2

1912    E Roberts & E Gross, Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College Vol 4 p 73-4

1938    G S Hewins, Notes on Ancient Tithe Barns p 25

1953    Nikolaus Pevsner, Hertfordshire (Penguin, 1977) pp 58, 135

1966    G Bailey & B Hutton, Crown Post Roofs in Herts. pp 4, 7

1969    M Baker, Discovering Hertfordshire (Shire 1969) p 38-9

1973    Stephen A Castle, The Medieval Aisled Barns at Kingsbury Manor Farm, St Albans

            and Croxley Hall Farm Herts. Archaeology Vol 3 pp 134-8

1975    Chiltern Society, Sixtyfive seventyfive p 26

1979    Jane H Roberts, Five Medieval Barns in Hertfordshire Herts.

            Archaeology vol 7 pp 159-80

1987    R W Brunskill, Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain p 49

1992    J T Smith, English Houses 1200-1800 (The Herts Evidence) RCHME pp 176-7

2000    Dr Martin C Bridge, Tree–ring Analysis Report 25/2000, (Eng Heritage)

2000    Derek V Stern, (Ed Christopher Thornton) A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster

            Abbey Intro xxvi (Herts. University)

 

[The Kinsbourne Barn at Harpendenbury Farm was built 1398, perhaps a year after Croxley Great Barn and of similar size]

 

 

1963    A Leach & P Rogers, Rickmansworth Historian No 6

1969    A Leach & P Rogers, Rickmansworth Historian No 18 

1970    L C Leach, SW Herts. Archaeology Bulletin no 11 p8 

1972    Editorial, Chiltern News No 42 p7 No 43 p8 The Chiltern Society

1972    Barbara Brown Herts Archaeology Review No 6 pp 108-9 

1973    Editorial, Chiltern News No 48 p11 The Chiltern Society

1975    L C Leach, Rickmansworth Historian No 29

1976    G Cornwall, Rickmansworth Historian No 31

1994    Rickmansworth Historian Anniversary No 40 pp 18-25

1998    Richard Kearey Hertfordshire Countryside Vol 53 No 465 p15

2003    Mary Forsyth, SW Herts. Archaeology Bulletin No 78 pp 25-6

2003    Yesterday-today No 33 pp 8-9 Journal of Three Rivers Museum Trust

2003    Chiltern News No 170 p37 The Chiltern Society

2004    Yesterday-today No 34 p14 Journal of Three Rivers Museum Trust