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Bishops Court
Hob Uid: 238037
Location : Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire Dorchester
Grid Ref : SU5750094600
Summary : Medieval house, rebuilt in 1552, with 18th and 19th century additions. Possibly on the site of an earlier Bishop's Palace.
More information : [SU 575946] Bishop's Court on site of [T.I.] Bishop's Palace [L.B.] (1) Dorchester was the see of bishops for long periods from the time of Birinus about 635, till some time after 1070 when it was decided to transfer the episcopal seat from Dorchester to Lincoln. (2) Leland writes in 1542 of courts still being kept at what was said in Dorchester to be the bishop's palace at the NW end of the town; and where he saw foundations of old buildings. (3) The rectangular ancient fishpond north of the foundations of Bishop's Court was filled in about 1892. (4) The present house of Bishop's Court, which is reputed to stand on the site of the bishop's palace, is an L-shaped timber framed structure with brick filling, some of it herringbone, and there are 18th and 19th c extensions. Interior beams may date from the rebuilding of 1552. (5)

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Source details : OS 6" 1960
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Source details : VCH Oxon, 2, 1907, 1-5 (Rev. H.E. Salter)
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Source details : Leland, Itin., Eng & Wales 1, 1964, 118 (ed.Lucy T. Smith)
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Source details : Berks, Bucks & Oxon. A. ch 4, 1898, 81 (W.Cozens)
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : VCH Oxon. 7, 1962, 41 (P.H. Sawyer)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : Early Medieval
Monument End Date : 1066
Monument Start Date : 410
Monument Type : Bishops Palace
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : House, Bishops Palace
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence, Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
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Monument Start Date : 1552
Monument Type : House
Evidence : Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
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Monument Start Date : 1700
Monument Type : House
Evidence : Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
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Monument Start Date : 1800
Monument Type : House
Evidence : Building

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External Cross Reference Number : SU 59 SE 5
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