Chichester Bishops Palace (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Cisseceastre; Ciceastre; Cheechester; Priory Park

In the civil parish of Chichester.
In the historic county of Sussex.
Modern Authority of West Sussex.
1974 county of West Sussex.
Medieval County of Sussex (Rape of Chichester).

OS Map Grid Reference: SU86880478
Latitude 50.83578° Longitude -0.78203°

Chichester Bishops Palace has been described as a certain Palace.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

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

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1286999
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 1405279.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MWS6200.

Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 3 Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 327-8
  Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 172
  Tatton-Brown, T., 1994, 'The buildings of the bishop's palace and the close' in Hobbs. M. (ed), Chichester Cathedral : an historical survey (Chichester: Phillimore) p. 225-46
  Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1935, VCH Sussex Vol. 3 p. 105, 147-53 online transcription
  Morewood, Caroline C., 1910, 'Introductory Chapter' in Rait, R.S. (ed), English Episcopal Palaces (Province of Canterbury) (London; Constable & Co) p. 16-17 online copy
  Elwes, Dudley George Cary, 1876, A history of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex (London: Longmans) p. 60-1 online copy
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 315-6 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Tatton-Brown, Tim, 1995, 'The Bishop's Palace Chichester' The Archaeology of Chichester and District 1995 p. 20-2 Download copy
  Haslam, R., 1985 Aug, Country Life
  Munby, J., 1985, 'Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Chichester in 1985' The Archaeological Journal Vol. 142 p. 15-16, 32
  Hannah, I.C., 1909, 'The bishop's palace, Chichester' Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 52 p. 1-23
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.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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