BISHOP'S PALACE;TOWN HALL;NEUADD Y DREF

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The former palace of the Bishops of Bangor. Excavation to the east suggests that there has been a palace on this site since the thirteenth-fourteenth century if not earlier. The earliest part of the present building is a timber framed hall with solar and service range, dated to around 1500. This was refaced and incorporated into the present late sixteenth-early seventeenth century building. A rear range was added in the eighteenth century and there have been more recent modifications and other alterations. In the early nineteenth century the river was canalised and park like environs were woven about the Palace. It was sold in 1900 and eventually became the Town (City?) Hall.
The Palace is a low two storey building with attics lit by dormers in the slate roof. It is U-plan, the oldest part being the western end. The walls are cement rendered. See Long Text.
Stables and a coach house to the east (NPRN 300515) have been demolished.

Sources: RCAHMW Caernarvonshire Inventory II (1960), 9-10 No. 682
CADW Listed Buildings Database (3951)

John Wiles 31.05.07

1. Wallpaintings; Royal Arms, Henry VIII: painted plaster (floral patterns) in spandrel of east partition truss of west half of central block.
2. WALLPAINTING
Foliage pattern: Royal Arms, Henry VIII
Source: RCAHMW Wallpaintings database. 2004.09.08/RCAHMW/SLE

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BISHOP'S PALACE;TOWN HALL;NEUADD Y DREF

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