Tredington manor of the bishop of Worcester (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Tredington.
In the historic county of Worcestershire.
Modern Authority of Warwickshire.
1974 county of Warwickshire.
Medieval County of Worcestershire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SP256436
Latitude 52.08913° Longitude -1.62382°

Tredington manor of the bishop of Worcester has been described as a probable Palace.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

In 1086 the Bishop of Worcester held 23 hides in Tredington. In 1254 the bishop obtained in this manor a grant of free warren, which was confirmed to him in the following year. In 1351 the bishop complained that though he had infangentheof and outfangentheof in this manor, as in all his other Worcestershire manors, some goods found in the possession of thieves arrested in the manor of Tredington had been taken away by force by other malefactors, so that justice had never been done. In 1409 he again had reason for complaint, as Richard Wych, parson of the church of Tredington, late farmer of the manor of Tredington, with others broke into the manor-house, dovecot and mill at Tredington, carried off the windows with their iron fastenings, sealed the door of the mill, stole the doves, and assaulted the bishop's servants and Simon Colyns, then farmer of the manor. In 1423 the manor of Tredington, with the watermill and fishery, was leased to Richard Cassey, rector of Tredington. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1186055
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 2730.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Abaroth's World
Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 2 East Anglia, Central England and Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 466
  Dyer, C., 1980, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540 (Cambridge University Press)
  Page, Wm and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds), 1913, VCH Worcestershire Vol. 3 p. 543 online transcription
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales (available via EThOS)

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