Hatfield; The Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Old Palace

In the civil parish of Hatfield.
In the historic county of Hertfordshire (Modern Authority of Hertfordshire, 1974 county of Hertfordshire).

Formerly Palace of the Bishops of Ely, built by John Morton about 1480. Given to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds Palace in 1607, and partly demolished, leaving this the east side of a former quadrangular block, and the gate lodge on the west. From 1628 until the C20 it was the stables to Hatfield House.

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

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL23570846

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 537656, 364603

Books

Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p121, 144-7, 162, 176
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press) p50, 80
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby) p12, 145, 148, 155
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works, vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p149-50
Pevsner, N. (Revised by Cherry, Bridget), 1977, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire (London, Penguin) p106-7
Page, Wm (ed), 1912, VCH Herfordshire Vol3 p94-5
RCHME, 1910, An inventory of the historical monuments in Hertfordshire p58-62
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol2 (London) p133
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p280

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/buckseng.html#herts6]

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