The Archbishop's Palace or the Old Palace is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. A Rebuilt 1896 Palace. 5 related planning applications.
The Archbishop's Palace or the Old Palace
- WRENN ID
- slow-flagstone-gold
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Palace
- Period
- Rebuilt 1896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TR 1557 NW 5/2 TR 1457 NE 4/2
THE CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS The Archbishop's Palace or the Old Palace
3.5.67
I
Rebuilt in 1896 by W.D Caröe, but the south wing contains some traces of old work in the buttresses and a C14 two light trefoil-headed window. The C16 gateway in the Borough also remains, though it is now blocked. The building is curved. Two to three storeys flint and ashlar. Tiled roof with three dormers on right elevation and three mullioned and transomed windows with hood moulding. Buttresses. The left side elevation has three gables with finials and three mullioned windows. The central entrance porch has an archiepiscopal cartouche and two twisted columns. It incorporates the west end of the undercroft of the monastic refectory.
On north side are considerable traces of the early C13 Archbishop's Palace which was the largest and most elaborate of its kind. Numerous details survive inside which are of use in re-constructing the windows and their tracery.
Listing NGR: TR1498757995
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