What must surely have been one of the most obscure stopping places on the entire system, this halt was never officially included in the Railway Company's literature as a halt, being exclusively for the use of the clergy, hence its title.  The nearby grand residence gave the halt its name but it never carried a nameboard to that effect.  It did however appear sporadically in certain timetables between 1932 and 1935 in the summer months with the footnote "...on Mondays a special train with leave Douglas Station at 9.45am far Ramsey in connection with the mart, stopping at all stations, also Bishop's Court Halt." (the exception being the 1935 issue, for which the departure time was stated as 9.20am.  The stopping place was furnished in meager fashion, consisting solely of a wooden bench seat with wooden steps for patrons to descent to the path that led to the residence, and a hand-operated fishtail signal for those wishing to stop the train.  The respected railway historian J.D. Darby recalled in issue 114 of Manx Steam Railway News, that he first came across this oddity of the I.M.R. system in 1950 when staying in nearby Kirk Michael; revisiting it in subsequent years he noted that more and more pieces of the bench disappeared only be found at the bottom of the bank and ultimately upon a later visit even the signal had vanished only to be found in a nearby field with the arm still attached!  He even recalls an occasion when it was officially used, under the distinguished patronage of Canon Eric Saxon, the Rector of St. Ann's Church (Manchester) in order to pay an official visit to the Bishop of Sodor & Mann.  This "conjures up images of fully frocked clergymen flagging down a train brandishing an umbrella" said Mr Darby - presumably a later visit after the signal had been discarded into the said adjacent field!