Bishops Palace, possible fortified. Possibly late C12-C13 in origin. Bishop Burghersh was given licence to crenellate 1336. The monument includes the stone walls which surround the grounds of the Bedehouse. The walls on the north western and north eastern sides, and on the south eastern side bounding the churchyard, are principally of post-medieval date. Running south from the Bedehouse, between the Bedehouse garden and the churchyard, it overlies the remains of a medieval building which lay within the palace precinct. In the southern part of the Bedehouse garden, the present wall represents a rebuilding of part of the palace's precinct wall. Part excavation in this area has demonstrated that the first precinct wall was constructed in C14, rebuilt on a slightly different alignment in C15 and finally replaced by the present wall in C18. At the southern corner of the precinct is a projecting stone tower of octagonal plan which dates largely from the late C15. In CA King writes "nothing remains but the fish-stews", however, substantial domestic remains do exist.

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Name	Lyddington Bede House
Alternative Names	Liddington; Lydyngton
Historic County	Rutland
Civil Parish	Lyddington
Type	Palace Fortified Manor House
Confidence	Possible
Remains	Masonry ruins/remnants
Listed	Grade 1
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	SP875969
Eastings	487540
Northing	296950
Images of England Reference	427654
PastScape Reference	346120
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Books

• Cantor, Leonard, 2003, The Scheduled Ancient Monument of Liecestershire and Rutland (Leicester: Kairos Press) p83
• Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p97
• Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p78, 81, 92, 125, 129, 136, 157
• Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p274
• Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p10, 118, 154, 167, 179
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p418
• Hartley, R. F., 1983, The Mediaeval Earthworks of Rutland, A survey (Leicester)
• Page, Wm (ed), 1935, VCH Rutland Vol2 p188-92
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p411
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1853, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol2 p243

Antiquarian

• Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p379

Journals

• Creighton, O.H., 1999, 'Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Rutland' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol73 p19-33 http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/Creighton73600dpism.pdf
• Woodfield, C. and Woodfield, P., 1981-82, 'The Palace of the Bishops of Lincoln at Lyddington' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol57 p1-16 http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/LyddingtonPagesfromvolumeLVII-2.pdf

Guidebooks

• Woodfield, C. and Woodfield, P., 1988, Lyddington Bede House (London: English Heritage)

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1334-38) p330