page_title: Yarnton
section_title: Yarnton Manor
hierarchical_section_title: Yarnton / Yarnton Manor
caption_attribution_description: English: Yarnton Manor house, Oxfordshire, seen from the east
context_page_description: Yarnton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 1 mile southwest of Kidlington and 4 miles northwest of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,545.
context_section_description: Yarnton Manor dates from the Norman Conquest and was held by the Spencer family from 1580 to 1712. Sir Thomas Spencer had the present manor house, a large Jacobean country mansion, built in 1611. During the English Civil War the house seems to have served as a Royalist military hospital: in 1643–45 about 40 Royalist soldiers were buried in St Bartholomew's churchyard.
  In about 1670 Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet had the interior of the house remodelled. In 1695, a decade after his death, most of the manor's land was sold to Sir Robert Dashwood, who removed most of the stone of the house to build his own home at Kirtlington Park. In 1718 Yarnton manor house was reported to be in a "ruinated condition". The north and south wings were demolished, possibly in about 1756 by Sir Robert's successor Sir James Dashwood.
  In 1897 the new owner, HR Franklin, engaged the Gothic revival architect Thomas Garner who restored the remaining part of the house. In the 1930s the property belonged to George Alfred Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University.
  More recently the house has been in institutional use. In about 1960 Cokethorpe School used it as a dormitory. Between 1975 and 2014 it was the headquarters of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies as well as the JDC International Centre for Community Development. In 2014 OCHJS decided to move closer to Oxford city centre. The house is now the international study centre of the Oxford Royale Academy. Before opening to students, the academy restricted access to footpaths at the rear of the village graveyard, citing Department for Education policy. The footpaths had been used for some decades. A public meeting was held, reportedly attended by over 100 people, and an application to establish a public right of way was made in October, 2016.
caption: Yarnton Manor, built in 1611 for Sir Thomas Spencer, now the Oxford Royale Academy
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