MONUMENT NO. 869512

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Bishop's palace possibly constructed during the 13th century, demolished in 1856.

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(SP 33657905) Bishop's Palace (site of) [NR].(1)

Bishop's Palace, (site). Associated with the adjacent Benedictine
Priory, (SP 37 NW 47). Demolished in 1856.(2)

Depicted as 4 ranges around a central courtyard.(3)

The Bishop's Palace, incorporated in a `mean house' at the NE corner of St Michael's Churchyard, disappeared when Priory Street was constructed in 1856-7.

The bishops do not appear to have had their own residence in Coventry before 1224-5, when the prior and convent granted Bishop de Stavensby a plot adjoining their graveyard on which a building was to be erected. In 1283, the episcopal house was delapidated, so the prior and convent granted a plot on a neighbouring site for a house to be built, with 200 marks for the existing house to be renovated and construction of additional buildings. This enlarged building may have been the `palace' which was leased by the bishop in 1324.(4)

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(1) General reference

OS 1:2500 1961.

(2) General reference

Fratton WG 1880. Buried Coventry.

(3) General reference

Speed J 1610. Map of Coventry.

(4) General reference

VCH Warwickshire 8 1969 128,316.

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