York Archbishops Palace (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Minster Library

In the civil parish of York.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of York.
1974 county of North Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire Ainsty & York.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE60265229
Latitude 53.96349° Longitude -1.08241°

York Archbishops Palace has been described as a certain Palace.

There are major building remains.

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

Description

The remains of the Archbishop's Palace, consisting of a late C12 arcade and a building known as the chapel, probably of early C13 date, and now used as the Minster Library. (PastScape)

The post-Conquest palace of Archbishop Thomas and his successors lay to the north of the Minster and comprised an open court surrounded by buildings. Its visible remains consist of six bays of a late twelfth century blind arcade, known as the 'Cloister', and an L-shaped block to the north which housed the thirteenth century chapel and is now the Minster Library. Documentary sources refer to an aisled medieval hall, a south-west range and a buttressed building to the south-east of the chapel. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the palace fell out of use and, by 1600, had become ruinous. In 1618 the site was leased to Sir Arthur Ingram who incorporated the south-west range into a mansion known as York Palace. Plans and surveys show the layout of the mansion but, by the eighteenth century, this too was in ruins and was demolished and the site cleared in 1814. (Scheduling Report)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1017777, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 13280
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1257880 , 1257919
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 58197; 1062717.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MYO1590; MYO1614.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Matthew Emmott's Castle Blog
Books
- Peter Addyman (ed), 2015, British Historic Towns Atlas Volume V: York (Oxbow Books for the Historic Towns & York Archaeological Trusts)
  Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 187
  Pevsner, N., 1972, Buildings of England: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (London, Penguin) p. 109
  Tillott, P.M. (ed), 1961, VCH Yorkshire: City of York p. 340-1 online transcription
  Niemeyer, N., 1911, 'Introductory Chapter' in Rait, R.S. (ed), English Episcopal Palaces (Province of York) (London; Constable & Co) p. 1-2 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Butler, R.M., 1988, 'York Place, a vanished Jacobean mansion' York Historian Vol. 8 p. 25-41
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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