Rest Park, Sherburn in Elmet

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Reste; Manor Garth; Sherburn Palace

In the civil parish of Sherburn in Elmet.
In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Site of Manor Garth, the Archbishop of York's Medieval Manor House, at Rest. A double moated site lying within Rest Park. Licence to crenellate was granted c.1383 to Archbishop Alexander. The site is overgrown when seen on early air photographs, trees and shrubs outlining the moats. The site was completely levelled around 1963-4, when some excavation took place. Exists as cropmarks only. Excavated in 1963, by D Davidson. Excavations revealed continuous ranges within the moats but not very robust structures. Called courtyard castle by King and Fortified Manor House in PastScape.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Fortified Manor House
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE54253366

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 56332

Books

Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p161
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p168, 188 [Thompson also list seperately a bishops house in Sherburn in Elmet. I presume this is a duplication for Rest Park]
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p533
Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p17-8, 21, 37-50, 66, 68-70, 89, 91, 93, 95-9, 105-8, 127
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH York Vol2 p46-7
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p419

Journal Articles

Hurst, G., 1964, 'Medieval Britain in 1962 and 1963, II. Post-Conquest' Medieval Archaeology Vol8 p276
1964, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol41 p174

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1381-85) p333

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