# Collaton St Mary > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Collaton_St_Mary > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Collaton_St_Mary.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaton_St_Mary > Source revision: 1336498925 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Village in Devon, England}} {{Use British English|date=February 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|St Mary's church, Collaton St Mary '''Collaton St Mary''' (before 1864 '''Collaton Kirkham'''Long a possession of the Kirkham family of adjoining [Blagdon, Paignton](/source/Blagdon%2C_Paignton)[https://books.google.com/books?id=jJFIAQAAMAAJ&dq=john+parker+blagdon&pg=PA456]. Church built in 1864, new parish created from the manor) is a village, parish and former [manor](/source/Manorialism) in Devon, England, situated about 2 miles (3 km) west of the town of [Paignton](/source/Paignton). The village is bisected by the A385 Paignton to Totnes road. The parish is now administered within the unitary authority of [Torbay](/source/Torbay_Council), Devon. The parish church, the [Church of St Mary](/source/Church_of_St_Mary%2C_Collaton_St_Mary), a [grade II*](/source/Listed_building) listed building{{NHLE|num = 1207472| desc= PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY |access-date = 4 July 2014}} was built in 1864-6 by Rev. J.R. Hogg, [lord of the manor](/source/lord_of_the_manor) of nearby [Blagdon](/source/Blagdon%2C_Paignton), in memory of his daughter who died in 1864.[Pevsner, Nikolaus](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner) & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.839 It was one of several new churches built in the 19th century which served the needs of the expanding town of Paignton. Collaton St Mary takes its name from Hogg's daughter, Mary Maxwell Hogg, who was the granddaughter of [Henry Francis Lyte](/source/Henry_Francis_Lyte). In adding to Blagdon Manor, the also lived at Berry Head House. The village Pub is called the Parker's Arms after the [Parker family](/source/Earl_of_Morley), the manor of Blagdon having been purchased by [Montagu Edmund Parker](/source/Montagu_Edmund_Parker) (1737–1831)[Risdon, Tristram](/source/Tristram_Risdon) (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.378 (later of [Whiteway House](/source/Whiteway_House), near [Chudleigh](/source/Chudleigh)), [Sheriff of Devon](/source/Sheriff_of_Devon) in 1789 and a younger brother of [John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon](/source/John_Parker%2C_1st_Baron_Boringdon) (1735-1788) of [Saltram House](/source/Saltram_House), Plympton. ==History== The manor is not listed in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086, as it was a sub-manor of the manor of [Paignton](/source/Paignton), the 18th of the 24 Devonshire holdings of the [Bishop of Exeter](/source/Bishop_of_Exeter) listed in the Domesday Book.Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985: Part 1, Chapter 2:18 It is first recorded in surviving records in the [Book of Fees](/source/Book_of_Fees) (''circa'' 1302) as ''Colethon''.[Book of Fees](/source/Book_of_Fees), p.767, quoted in Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985: Part 2 (Notes), Chapter 2:18 Since then the name of the manor and village (''alias'' Coletone, Coleton, etc.) has changed many times, dependent on the surname of its holders, the first suffix being [Coleton Clavill](/source/Coleton_Clavill)Spelling per Pole, p.297; Thorn & Thorn, Part 2, Chapter 2:18 (or [Colaton Clavell](/source/Colaton_Clavell)Spelling per Risdon, p.150), after the Claville family. [Walter I de Claville](/source/Walter_de_Claville) ([floruit](/source/floruit) 1086) (''alias'' de Clarville and [Latinised](/source/List_of_Latinised_names) to ''de Clavilla'') was an Anglo-Norman magnate and one of the 52 [Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief](/source/Devon_Domesday_Book_tenants-in-chief) of King [William the Conqueror](/source/William_the_Conqueror). He also held lands in Dorset. His Devonshire estates later formed part of the [feudal barony of Gloucester](/source/feudal_barony_of_Gloucester).Thorn, part 2, chap 24 The subsequent holder was the [Dennis family](/source/Denys_family), [Latinized](/source/List_of_Latinized_names) to ''Dacus'', "the Dane/Danish", which had branches at [Orleigh](/source/Manor_of_Orleigh) and at [Holcombe Burnell](/source/Holcombe_Burnell), also in Devon. It later became known as Collaton-Kirkham, after the Kirkham family of Blagdon. During the reign of King Edward I (1272-1307) Sir Nicholas Kirkham, [Sheriff of Devon](/source/Sheriff_of_Devon) in 1308/9,[Prince, John](/source/John_Prince_(biographer)), (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.554 of Ashcombe, married Agatha Dennis, sister and heiress of Sir Robert Dennis (d.pre-1307) of Blagdon, and following the death of Sir Robert Dennis the manor of Blagdon and others including Colaton-Clavil, passed to the Kirkham family, which shortly thereafter moved their seat to Blagdon.Prince, p.554; [Risdon, Tristram](/source/Tristram_Risdon) (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.150; [Pole, Sir William](/source/William_Pole_(antiquary)) (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, [Sir John-William de la Pole](/source/Sir_John_de_la_Pole%2C_6th_Baronet) (ed.), London, 1791, p.279 The Kirkham family held it for many generations. Finally the name changed to Collaton St Mary, when it became an ecclesiastical parish. The parish was created in 1864 and the foundation stone of St Mary's church was laid on 21 September of that year. ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} Category:Villages in Devon --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Collaton St Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaton_St_Mary) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaton_St_Mary?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.