Cleeve Hall (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Bishops Cleeve.
In the historic county of Gloucestershire.
Modern Authority of Gloucestershire.
1974 county of Gloucestershire.
Medieval County of Gloucestershire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SO95682763
Latitude 51.94715° Longitude -2.06425°

Cleeve Hall has been described as a certain Palace.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

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

Description

Former residence of the Bishop of Worcester built in mid-late C13 and altered in 1667 by Bishop Nicholas of Gloucester. The original house consisted of a stone built hall with two storey wings projecting on both sides. Nothing remains of the main range, the service wing retains its old walling in the east half though the back part of the wing has been rebuilt. The form of the solar wing survives intact, but there are very few early features. Alterations were carried out in C18 and most of the house was refenestrated in C19. The building had been converted into offices by 1987. (PastScape)

Between 768 and 779 King Offa of Mercia and Aldred, underking of the Hwicce, granted land in Cleeve to the monastic church of St. Michael there. Evidently by 888 the monastery's estates had been appropriated to the bishopric of Worcester, and in 1066 and 1086 the Bishop of Worcester held the manor of CLEEVE and its members. The manor, usually distinguished as BISHOP'S CLEEVE, was held in demesne in 1208 and 1303; in 1255 the bishop was granted free warren there. By the 15th century the manor was usually let at farm. The bishops of Worcester had a residence at Bishop's Cleeve in the Middle Ages; the manorhouse later became the rectory. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1303966
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 117608.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 5390.

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
  Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 187
  Verey, David, 1980, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean p. 108
  Dyer, C., 1980, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540 (Cambridge University Press)
  Elrington, C.R. (ed), 1968, VCH Gloucestershire Vol. 8 p. 20 online transcription
Periodical Articles
- 1976 Feb, Cotswold Life
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Pearce, E.H. (ed), 1930, Register of Bishop Thomas de Cobham, 1317–27 (Worcestershire Historical Society) p. 29–31, 80, 130, 170
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Matthew Tilley, Tim Grubb, 2008, Extensive Urban Survey - Gloucestershire Download copy
  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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