There is a legend that in 1708 the skeletal remains of Lord Lovell were discovered in a secret chamber in the manor house.
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The dedication of the Church of England parish church to the Saxon Saint Kenelm and the name "Minster" in the toponym suggest that the village may have had a Saxon minster, possibly associated with a Mercian royal vill.
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Minster Lovell Hall and Dovecote are extensive ruins of a 15th-century manor house, once belonging to William Lovel's descendant, Lord Lovell.
York Minster | Jim Lovell | Minster-in-Thanet | Raymond Lovell | Minster | Ulm Minster | Minster, Ohio | Freiburg Minster | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Lovell Benjamin Badcock | Iwerne Minster | Bernard Lovell | Wimborne Minster | Sir Bernard Lovell School | Simone Lovell | Minster (church) | minster | Lovell Rousseau | Lovell Coleman | Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell | CSS Colonel Lovell | ''Colonel Lovell'' | Wimborne Minster (church) | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Steve Lovell | St. Augustine's Catholic Church (Minster, Ohio) | Southwell Minster School | Salathiel Lovell | Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster | Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis |
His second wife was Mary Fermor, daughter of Lawrence Fermor and Elizabeth Wenman of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, with whom he had one son, who died young, and two daughters.