Discover The Vineyard

The residence at the Vineyard at Over was first built by Abbot Staunton 1343-1351. It was only a temporary structure with a parlour, but it had a surrounding wall. Abbot Frocester 1381-1420 replaced it with a stone house and moated it round.

The abbots had a large house there to which they frequently retired. It was demolished during the Civil War {Source Work 1643.} but the site and surrounding moat are still visible. The Vineyard, house of the Abbots of Gloucester, afterwards the Bishops, was demolished in the Civil Wars was one of the original vineyards mentioned by William of Malmesbury.

Vineyard House was first plundered in the Christmas holidays in 1641 by Lord Stamford, and was by degrees so dilapidated that stone was hauled from it in the Mayoralty of Walter Clutterbuck 1647-1648.

Information taken from heritagegateway.org.uk and includes contributions from Janet Frost