{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Willoughton Preceptory | native_name = | image =File:Temple Garth Willoughton Geograph-2319599-by-Jonathan-Thacker.jpg| | caption = Site of Willoughton Preceptory at Temple Garth. | alt= | locmapin =Lincolnshire | map_width = 250 | map_caption = Location in Lincolnshire | coordinates = {{coord|53.4269|-0.6053|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | location = Temple Garth | gbgridref =SK92769325 | area = | elevation = | formed = | founded = earlier than 1164 by Roger de Builli | built = by Roger de Builli | demolished = After 1540 | rebuilt = | restored = | architect = | architecture = | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | governing_body = | designation1 = Ancient Monument | designation1_offname = | designation1_type = | designation1_criteria = | designation1_date = | delisted1_date = | designation1_parent = | designation1_number = 327087 | designation1_free1name = | designation1_free1value = | designation1_free2name = | designation1_free2value = | designation1_free3name = | designation1_free3value = | designation2 = | designation2_offname = | designation2_type = | designation2_criteria = | designation2_date = | delisted2_date = | designation2_parent = | designation2_number = | designation2_free1name = | designation2_free1value = | designation2_free2name = | designation2_free2value = | designation2_free3name = | designation2_free3value = }} '''Willoughton Preceptory''' was a holding of the Knights Templar at Willoughton, in north Lincolnshire, England. The preceptory stood at the farm, still called Temple Garth.<ref name=P>{{PastScape|mnumber= 327087 |mname=Willoughton Preceptory|access-date=8 August 2015}}</ref><ref name=W>{{cite web|url=http://www.hemswellward.co.uk/willoughton.htm|title=Local parish web site|access-date=27 October 2012}}</ref>
Willoughton, founded during the 1135–1154 reign of Stephen, was the richest of the English houses of the Templars. After the suppression of the order in 1312, the house passed to the Hospitallers in 1338. It was dissolved in 1540, the lands passing to King's College, Cambridge.<ref name=P/><ref name=W/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Willoughton/|title=GENUKI web site}}</ref><ref name="victoria">{{cite book|series=Victoria County History|title=A History of the County of Lincoln|volume=2|editor-first=William |editor-last=Page|year=1906|pages = 210–213 'Houses of Knights Templars: Willoughton, Eagle, Aslackby, South Witham and Temple Bruer' |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38047 |access-date=12 February 2011}}</ref>
'''Horkstow Camera''' was a monastic cell dependent on the Preceptory.<ref name="victoria" />
==See also== * List of Templar sites in Lincolnshire
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Monasteries in Lincolnshire |state=expanded}}
Category:Monasteries in Lincolnshire Category:Preceptories of the Knights Templar Category:1540 disestablishments in England Category:Preceptories of the Knights Hospitaller in England