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Somerset Historic Environment Record
| Site Name: | Bishops' residence, Kingsbury Episcopi |
| Civil Parish: | Kingsbury Episcopi |
| Grid Ref: | ST 437 212 (ST 42 SW) |
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Documentary evidence indicates that the bishops of Bath and Wells had a residence here from at least C13 to C14. Collinson notes a mid C15 reference to a "court house" which may indicate that the residence was still standing and used to house the manor court. The most likely site is close to the church where, on the N side, are two plots named in the 1844 tithe map as Higer and Lower "Court Leaze" but the building now known as Rodway Manor (PRN 22441) is possible. {1}
Material from an evaluation trench excavated in 2005 was radiocarbon dated to the Saxon period (PRN 18458). {2}
| 1 | Description - Payne, N "The residences of the medieval Bishops of Bath and Wells" unpublished MA dissertation, Bristol (1999) copy in HER files |
| 2 | Personal communication - Talya Bagwell, Somerset Historic Environment Record (15/12/2005) |
Record created on 08 December 1999
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