The Gatehouse website record for Hevingham Bishop's Palace

In the civil parish of Hevingham. In the historic county of Norfolk (Modern Authority of Norfolk, 1974 county of Norfolk).

This moated bishops' palace was built in 1250 by Walter de Suffield, Bishop of Norwich. It was used by other bishops until the ownership of the land passed to the Crown between 1500 and 1525. Part of the moat was still water filled when the earthworks were surveyed in 1981. Fieldwalking and metal detecting have recovered many medieval and post medieval finds including a medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant with the heraldic design of the Bishopric of Norwich. (Norfolk HER)
Park Farm House on site reuses some stone from the palace.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TG20432083

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 133134
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 7656 '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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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.