Banwell Court

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; The Abbey

In the civil parish of Banwell.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of North Somerset, 1974 county of Avon).

Also known as the Abbey. Two houses, formerly a single building built as a bishop's residence 1443-65. Allegedly constructed within or on the site of a Saxon monastic foundation, but that is generally considered to be either at ST35NE12 or to be at or near near Banwell church (ST35NE21). The building is C14 and perhaps earlier, altered in C15 with major reworkings in the early and late C19. It contains C15 domestic chapel. A fishpond, presumably Mediaeval, survives as an earthwork, and was drained circa 1800.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST40025914

PastScape number; 194496

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p673
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p170
Dunning, R., Some Somerset Country Houses p8
Knowles, David and Hadcock, R Neville, 1971, Medieval religious houses in England and Wales (Longman) p467
Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (London, Penguin)

Journal Articles

1969, Search: the journal of the Banwell Society of Archaeology Vol9 pXX-XXII
Compton, T., 1905, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol51 p31
Levien, E., 1875, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol31 p31

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Banwell Court

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST40025914

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