What is recorded here

St Asaph Bishop's Palace stands in Denbighshire as a Post Medieval bishops palace, its identity preserved under several names including Plas-yr-Esgob and The Old Palace. The building served religious authority during a period when local power and faith became entangled in stone, rooms and ritual. Whether people still walk its chambers or merely pass its walls, the palace remains a marker of hierarchy, memory and the enduring weight of institutional life.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records St Asaph Bishop's Palace;Plas-yr-Esgob;The Old Palace, Bishops Palac as Bishops Palace from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

St Asaph Bishop's Palace, also known as Plas-yr-Esgob, was built in the 13th century by the Bishops of St Asaph, a title established in the 12th century following the reorganisation of the Welsh church under Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury. The palace is historically significant as the official residence of the bishops and as a rare surviving example of medieval ecclesiastical architecture in north Wales.

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