Cargoll Bishops Palace, St Newlyn East (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Cargoll Farm Barn

In the civil parish of St Newlyn East.
In the historic county of Cornwall.
Modern Authority of Cornwall.
1974 county of Cornwall.
Medieval County of Cornwall.

OS Map Grid Reference: SW81945638
Latitude 50.36681° Longitude -5.06698°

Cargoll Bishops Palace, St Newlyn East has been described as a probable Palace.

There are no visible remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Late C14. Killas rubble stonework with ashlar dressings. Corrugated asbestos roof replacing thatch. Plan: 7-8 bays, buttressed on east side and south end. Later subdivided into calf pens on lower floor, and grain store above. Ramp entrance to upper floor in 6th bay on west side. Buttresses with two offsets to each truss, but wider simpler buttresses square to south gable at corners, the west buttress built into later structures. North gable end rebuilt reducing last surviving bay to quarter the original width. Probably Some rebuilding of west wall, removing buttresses. Interior: Raised base cruck trusses to each bay, with blades 41 x 10am supporting square set arcade plates, but outer section tenoned to extension rafters to diagonally set ridge. Cambered collars with dropped centres stopping knee braces, all chamfered on lower arrises. Lower purlins tenoned to blades, upper purlins clasped above straight collars to extension rafters. Trusses set at 2.4m bay centres, each bay divided by intermediate trusses comprising raised base crucks and extension rafters with collars only. Long curved windbraces to each bay. Total span 5,9m, length now approx 15.25m. A rare and important building, being the only survival of the medieval palace of the Bishops of Exeter on this site, purchased by Bishop Walter Bronescombe 'the Goode' in 1269, amd held by the bishopric until 1804. A grant of a Thursday market was given in 1312. No evidence of the large prison noted by Tonkin in the C19 survives. (Listed Building Report)

The monument was descheduled on 28/8/2001. (Cornwall & Scilly HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1141453
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 428999.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 25049.2; 25049.21; 25049.22.

Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 3 Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 551n14
  Jope, E.M. (ed), 1961, Studies in Building History: Essays in Recognition of the Work of B.H. St. J. O'Neil
  Gilbert, C.S., 1820, An Historical and Topographical Survey of the County of Cornwall p. 677
  Polsue, J. (Ed), 1867, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall Vol. 4 p. 3
Periodical Articles
- Alcock and Barley, 1972, Antiquity p. 132

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