Darlington Bishops Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Old Hall; Hall Garth; Hallgarth

In the civil parish of Darlington. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Darlington, 1974 county of County Durham).

Manor house and chapel was built to the south of St Cuthbert's Church on a plot of land once called Hallgarth, by Bishop Pudsey in circa 1160 as a bishop's palace. In 1806 it was bought for use as a poor-house. It was a long, low building with windows dating from medieval to C18. Much of it was demolished in 1828 and it was finally destroyed in 1870. The site has now been built over.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ29131435

Air Photo from Air Photo and general mapping	1st edition OS Map from Mid to late 19th century maps
Modern Map from Landscape form and features	Modern Map from General location and route planning
Geograph British Isles occasionally has photos of the site and will usually give an idea of the surrounding landscape.

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 23850
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D1519 '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.

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1519
• Books
  • Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p175
    Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p51-4
    Gould, Chalkley, 1905, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Durham Vol1 (London) p387
    Longstaffe, W.H.D., 1854, History of Darlington (Darlington) p188-9
• Journal Articles
  • Hadcock, R.N., 1939, Archaeologia Aeliana Vol16 p192
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p147, 158
    Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p69 http://www.archive.org/details/itineraryofjohnl01
• Other sources, 'grey' literature, unpublished works, etc. (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales [available via http://ethos.bl.uk ]