The Gatehouse website record for Lindisfarne; The Palace Supply Base

In the civil parish of Holy Island. In the historic county of Durham; North (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

There are the remains of a group of medieval buildings within an enclosure. It stands to the east of Holy Island village close to Lindisfarne Priory. Traces of a number of ranges of buildings can be seen standing within the walled enclosure. There are historic records from C15 that a house called Harbottle Place probably stood at this site. In the Tudor period it was converted into a military supply base. A survey of 1548 called the buildings the ‘Queen’s storehouse’ and states that there was ‘…also another house in the towne called the Pallace, which is the newe brewhouse and bakehouse. By 1596 the brewing vats were out of use. The buildings were abandoned and fell into ruin. A map of 1792 shows only a single building in the north-east of the site. Work carried out here in 2000, for the Time Team programme on Channel 4, exposed remains of a Tudor victualling yard. These included a large masonry brewhouse with the settings for a mash tun and a fermenting tun. There was also evidence of a cellar, storehouse, possible malthouse and courtyard. Suggestion of arrow head artillery bastions layout left in village street plan. No suggestion as to what Harbottle Place was; was it a bishops or abbots palace?

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU12754194

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 1084963
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is N5363 '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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