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| Name: | Possible Site of Bishop's Palace, Fladbury |
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| HER Reference: | WSM07820 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 995 463 |
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| Map Sheet: | SO94NE |
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| Parish: | Fladbury, Wychavon, Worcestershire |
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Monument Types
- BISHOPS PALACE (EARLY MEDIEVAL - 411 AD to 1065 AD)
- MONASTERY (EARLY MEDIEVAL - 411 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Flood Risk Assessment (NHPP)
Full description
Bishop's palace, established after 814; Peacock's excavation (WSM07819) may have included part of the site. Site of National Significance - considered for scheduling by English Heritage. [1][2][3][4]
Also included in this record: possible monastery, although whether this was genuine or a device for escaping secular dues is not determined. [5]
See also. [6]
This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 9th April 2019 licensed under the Open Government Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ [7]
As early as 691 [Cart Sax 1 110 (Birch)] there is said to have existed a monastery at Fladbury (SO 9946). It was probably a 'family monastery', a colony of priests and monks dependant on the Benedictine cathedral church of Worcester. The 'old monastery' is mentioned in grants of 703 [Chron Evesham (Rolls Ser) 18] and about 961 [Codex Diplomaticus 1 33 (Kemble)]. [7]
About 691 or 693 Ethelred, King of the Mercians, gave land to Oftfor, Bishop of Worcester, at Fladbury "in order that monastic life might be re-established there as when the place was first granted". The monastery may have been situated at the Saxon settlement at Fladbury (SO 94 NE 6). [Early Charters of West Midlands 1961 32 No6 and 86 No 198 (HPR Finberg), CBA Group 8 Ann Report 1967 11 (DPS Peacock), Medieval religious houses in England and Wales 1971 by David Knowles and R Neville Hadcock 473][7]
Sources and further reading
| <1*> | Record card: Not known. Undated. SMR card: Bishop's Palace, Fladbury. WHEAS. |
| <2> | List: 1998-1999. List of Nationally Important Sites. MPP List. |
| <3*> | Bibliographic reference: Peacock, D P S. Dec 1967. Fladbury. Current Archaeology. 5, pp.123-4. p123-124. |
| <4*> | Bibliographic reference: Bond, C J. 1975. Two Recent Saxon Discoveries in Fladbury. Vale Evesham Historical Society Research Papers. Vol V. p19 (9). |
| <5*> | Record card: Not known. Undated. SMR card: Possible monastery, Fladbury. WHEAS. |
| <6*> | Unpublished document: Evans, Mark. 2012. Conservation Management Plan, Old Palace Worcester. Mark Evans Architect Ltd. |
| <7> | Internet Site: Historic England. 2019. National Record of the Historic Environment Monument Database. 1999. |
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