What is recorded here

Lamphey Bishop's Palace stands as a ruined medieval complex in Pembrokeshire, largely constructed under Bishop Henry de Gower between 1328 and 1347. It featured over twenty rooms, fishponds, orchards and grazing deer before surrendering to the crown in 1546. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, lived there as a child, linking royal ambition to its stone halls. The buildings may have become farm structures after the English Civil War, yet the great hall still rises twenty-five metres above the Pembrokeshire soil.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Lamphey Bishop's Palace as Bishops Palace from the Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Lamphey Bishop's Palace was built in the 13th century by the Bishops of St Davids as their residence in the area. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval bishop's palace and is associated with the historical religious and administrative authority of the diocese.

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