Brief Description
Previous features of Bishop's Palace included garden terraces, extensive earthworks, a mound and several ponds.
History
Bishop's Palace was created between 1300 and 1500 as a private residence for the Bishops of Lincoln.
Detailed Description
Until the 1920s the remains of a series of terraces and scarps existed; and extensive earthworks have been destroyed by modern ploughing. In the north-west corner is a ciruclar mound 15 metres in diameter and to the east are three marshy depressions, possibly linked rectangular ponds with a fourth small pond to the east. All may have been the gardens attached to the Palace, as was the custom with other medieval palaces of the Bishops of Lincoln.- Features
- Artificial Mound
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- Pond
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- Garden Terrace
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- Palace (featured building)
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- Authorities
Civil Parish
- Spaldwick
- History
Detailed History
A medieval palace of the Bishops of Lincoln once stood in a D-shaped site surrounding the village church, bounded on three sides by the existing roads and a deep hollow to the west.Period
- 16th Century
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Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust