Moat, C14 gatehouse and curtain wall remain, in good order, of bishop's palace licensed in 1340.

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Name	Wells Bishops Palace
Alternative Names
Historic County	Somerset
Civil Parish	Wells
Type	Palace
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Major
Listed	Grade 1
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	ST551457
Eastings	355150
Northing	145700
Images of England Reference	483262
PastScape Reference
Historic Environment Record	25370

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Books

• Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p669-74
• Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p105, 108, 257
• Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p86-7
• Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p47, 49-54, 134, 156, 158, 167, 168, 169
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p224-5
• Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p67-68
• James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby)
• Colchester, L.S., 1987, Wells Cathedral p159-80
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p445
• Dunning, R.W., 1982, 'The Bishop's Palace' in Colchester, L.S. (ed), Wells Cathedral: A History (Shepton Mallet) p227-244
• Pevsner, N, 1958, Building of England; North Somerset and Bristol p313-16
• Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p59-60
• Parker, J.H., 1866, The Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells (Oxford and London)
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p345-6, 412
• Pugin, A., 1850, Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture (London: Henry and Bohn) Vol2
• Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol2 p263

Antiquarian

• William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/dorseteng.html#somerset20]
• Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p411-13
• Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p146 http://www.archive.org/details/itineraryofjohnl01

Journals

• Coulson, C., 1994, 'Freedom to Crenellate by Licence - An Historiographical Revision' Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol38 p124
• Coulson, C., 1982, 'Hierarchism in Conventual Crenellation: An Essay in the Sociology and Metaphysics of Medieval Fortification' Medieval Archaeology Vol26 p69-100 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
• Binney, M., 1975, ‘The Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset' Country Life, 158 p1666-9, 1738-41
• Wood, M.E., 1950-51, 'The Bishop's Palace, Wells' Archaeological Journal Vol107 p108-110
• Wood, Margaret, 1950, 'Thirteenth-century Domestic Architecture in England' Archaeological Journal Vol105 supplement p74-6
• Brakspear, 1930, Archaeological Journal Vol87 p464-7
• Leland, 1897, Country Life Vol2 p528-30 [slight]
• Buckle, E., 1888, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol34 p54-97
• Parker, J.H., 1863, 'The bishop's palace at Wells' Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol11 p143-58
• Davis, C.E., Journal British Archaeological Association Vol13 p177-86

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1281-92) p229
• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1338-40) p466