Riccall Manor

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Rikhall

In the civil parish of Riccall.
In the historic county of Yorkshire East Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

The buried and earthwork remains of a medieval moated site for a prebendary manor house belonging to York Minster. Upon the island there is a Grade 2* Listed Building that incorporates substantial remains of a late medieval brick built manor house. The manor of Riccall was held by the Archbishop of York from before the Domesday Survey. The prebendal manor house was in existence by 1294, when it was first documented and a licence to crenellate was granted in 1350. The oldest part of the existing house is a brick built three storey tower with a five stage turret dated to circa 1480. The moated island is 60m by 80m. It is rhomboid in plan with the western side being 90m long, and the eastern side 70m. The upstanding late medieval building is sited centrally on the western side of the island. The encircling moat ditch is broad and deep, typically 20m wide and was originally at least 2m deep.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1350 Feb 16.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 326314)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE615380

Modern Map from

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Modern Map from

Good for general location

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1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 58023

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p77
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p26
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p387, 421
Pevsner, N., 1978. The Buildings of England: York and the East Riding (London) p329
Allison, K.J. (ed), 1976, 'Riccall' VCH Yorkshire East Riding Vol3 p84
Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p115

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 Charter Rolls Vol5 p120

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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