Bishop's palace.


The earliest structural evidence is the 14th century towerhouse, which has been ascribed to Bishop Duncan.


A series of detailed sketches made in the mid-17th century by a skilled landscape artist show that by this time the bishop's tower house had been extended by the addition of a medieval chapel to the north-east and a sizeable hall of four bays to the south-west. The grounds were also laid out as formal gardens.


Further alterations to the house followed at the hands of a succession of bishops. Bishop Wilson remodelled and extended the hall c. 1700, Bishop Crigan renovated the towerhouse in the 1790s, Bishop Murray altered the hall and replaced the chapel from 1814 and Bishop Powys rebuilt the chapel again in 1858; a fire in 1893 occasioned further rebuilding.