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Summary

Five Houses of the 1840s erected as a terrace. No. 3 is the northernmost of these; No. 2 at this time is the site of ther. An archaeological assessment was undertaken in 2004 to try and establish what potential for archaeological deposits from the medieval Bishops Palace (MTO8874) remained beneath the footprint. No. 2 lies opposite the west tower of the medieval Parish Church.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1195237

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (Post Medieval to XXI - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.

Five Houses of the 1840s erected as a terrace. No. 3 is the northernmost of these; No. 2 at this time is the site of ther. An archaeological assessment was undertaken in 2004 to try and establish what potential for archaeological deposits from the medieval Bishops Palace (MTO8874) remained beneath the footprint. No. 2 lies opposite the west tower of the medieval Parish Church. [1]

The Rev John Swete visiting Paignton on 18 June 1793 described the area thus "… near the Western end of the church, is yet standing, the Gateway that led into the Palace. This however, seems never to have been of consequence. The Principal Buildings lay south-east of this, and are boundaries on these points to the Churchyard for a century or two for a century or two they have been hastening to decay and they promise soon to reach that extreme degree of dilapidation to which those two other Episcopal Palaces of Chudleigh and Bishopsteignton have long attained." [2] The gate across the the north end of the Palace Place shown on the 1841 tithe map is attached to a small building, in all probability Swete's and the remnants of the Palace gateway. The assessment includes a conjectural reconstruction of the palace complex which ignores both, positing the gatehouse in the area of the present 1910 Vicarage.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Buildings shown on modern mapping.

<1> Exeter Archaeology, 2004, Archaeological Assessment of Proposed Development at 2-3 Palace Place, Paignton, Torbay (* Torbay Report - Interim/Research/Specialist). SDV362404.

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<2> Gray, T. (ed), 1997, Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, p.188 (Monograph). SDV362298.

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Sources / Further Reading

SDV361984	SMR record: Torbay HER record.
SDV364015	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2021. MasterMap 2021. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital.
SDV362404	* Torbay Report - Interim/Research/Specialist: Exeter Archaeology. 2004. Archaeological Assessment of Proposed Development at 2-3 Palace Place, Paignton, Torbay. Exeter Archaeology. 4.18. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV362298	Monograph: Gray, T. (ed). 1997. Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800. . Vol 1. p.188.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7955 - Archaeological Assessment of Proposed Development at 2-3 Palace Place, Paignton, Torbay

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