Darlington Bishops Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Old Hall; Hall Garth

In the civil parish of Darlington.
In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Darlington, 1974 county of County Durham).

Manor house and chapel was built to the south of St Cuthbert's Church on a plot of land once called Hallgarth, by Bishop Pudsey in circa 1160 as a bishop's palace. In 1806 it was bought for use as a poor-house. It was a long, low building with windows dating from medieval to C18. Much of it was demolished in 1828 and it was finally destroyed in 1870. The site has now been built over.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ29131435

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 23850

County Sites and Monuments Record number; D1519

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1519
• Books
  • Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p175
    Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p51-4
    Gould, Chalkley, 1905, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Durham Vol1 (London) p387
    Longstaffe, W.H.D., 1854, History of Darlington (Darlington) p188-9
• Journal Articles
  • Hadcock, R.N., 1939, Archaeologia Aeliana Vol16 p192
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p147, 158
    Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p69