Cakeham Manor House

In the civil parish of West Wittering.
In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).

The Bishops of Chichester had a house here from the C13 to the C16. The early house had fallen into ruins by 1363, but of it there survives one bay of a C13 hall and undercroft. It was rebuilt in the C16, and of this re- building the principal survival is a tall hexagonal red brick tower, with taller stair turret, built by Bishop Sherborn about 1519. To the south of this is one contemporary bay with trefoil-headed windows with dripstones over. Granted licence to crenellate in 1447, along with other manor houses of the see of Chichester, but no work from this time.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ78489757

PastScape number; 462174

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p440
Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Sussex (Malvern) p31
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p168, 173
Pevsner, N. and Nairn, I., 1965, Buildings of England: Sussex (London, Penguin) p377-8
Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1953, VCH Sussex Vol4 p217-8
Elwes, Dudley George Cary, 1876, A history of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex (London: Longmans) p269

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 Vol6 p94-5

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Cakeham Manor House

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ78489757

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