Cropredy Bishops Manor (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Cropredy.
In the historic county of Oxfordshire.
Modern Authority of Oxfordshire.
1974 county of Oxfordshire.
Medieval County of Oxfordshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SP468464
Latitude 52.11408° Longitude -1.31774°

Cropredy Bishops Manor has been described as a probable Palace.

There are no visible remains.

Description

Thompson lists as a residential manor of the bishop of Lincoln.

Manor Farm (PRN 10410) stands on the west side of a ditched quadrilateral enclosure cut into gently sloping ground on west side of Cherwell Valley. Shows evidence of internal bank at NE corner and north side. A vague, ill-defined depression to the north could be the remains of an associated fishpond, but this is not clear. Manor Farm (dated 1693) 'Partly surrounded by a moat belonging to an earlier house' (Oxfordshire HER)

Cropredy is specified among the possessions of the see of Lincoln in papal confirmations of 1126, 1139, 1149, and 1163. (Reg. Antiquiss. i. 189, 191, 194, 203) In 1329 Bishop Henry received a grant of free warren in his demesnes in Cropredy and elsewhere. (Cal. Chart. R. 1327–41, 117) In the fiscal year 1540–1 the bishop's temporalities in Cropredy rendered £29. (Beesley, Hist. Banbury, 204)

Sources of information, references and further reading

County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 11272.

Books
- Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 179
  Crossley, Alan (ed), 1972, VCH Oxfordshire Vol. 10 p. 157-75 (tenurial history) online transcription
  Beesley, A., 1841, The History of Banbury (London: Nichols and son) p. 204 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1912, Calendar of Charter Rolls Edward III 1327-1341 Vol. 4. (HMSO) p. 117 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.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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