The Gatehouse website record for Bishopthorpe Palace

In the civil parish of Bishopthorpe. In the historic county of Yorkshire Ainsty & York (Modern Authority of York, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Bishopthorpe Place was originally built in 1241 by Archbishop Walter de Grey with the undercroft being constructed using stone from an old manor house which de Grey pulled down when he bought the village of Thorpe St Andrew. The house then consisted of a Great Hall with a chapel at right angles at the upper end and offices with the Archbishop's rooms above them at the lower end. Archbishop Thoresby extended his private rooms in 1364-5 and in 1483 Archbishop Rotherham added a range to the north built of red brick which doubled the size of the residential quarters and improved the kitchens. Salter writes part of moat is visible. No evidence of other fortifications.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE59724782

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 56358
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MYO429; MYO328; MYO329 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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