The College Gateway (All Saints Parish Room) And The College Tower

The College Gateway (All Saints Parish Room) and The College Tower are remnants of a collegiate foundation established in 1395 by Archbishop Courtenay, and completed in 1396-1398 under Archbishop Arundel. The college was originally intended for a master and 24 chaplains.

The surviving buildings primarily consist of the Gatehouse and a range to the west including a Refectory, Kitchen, Scullery, Dormitory, and Infirmary. The construction is of Kentish ragstone in the Perpendicular style. The three-storeyed Gatehouse is square, with pointed stone carriage and pedestrian arches on the ground floor and a castellated parapet above. It contains square-headed windows with two trefoil-headed lights, each with dripstones, those on the top floor featuring two tiers of lights. The arches are covered by stone ribbed tierceran star vaulting. To the left of the entrance arch is a two-storeyed room, likely used for baking bread for alms, which contains an oven. Connecting to this is a two-storeyed range incorporating six square-headed windows, each with a pair of cinquefoil-headed lights but without dripstones. The building is topped with a tiled roof and has a stringcourse. A stone chimneybreast is centrally located on the north front, with a modern red brick stack above. A three-storeyed tower, known as the River Tower, stands at the west end of the complex, featuring windows similar to those of the rest of the building and a castellated parapet. The top floor of the River Tower houses a Muniment Room.

The buildings form a group of significance with other structures including the Gateway and Wall to Palace Gardens, a wall to the north-west of the Archbishop's Palace, the Palace itself, walls to the east of the Palace, the Dungeons, the Gate House, Len Bridge, the Tithe Barn, the Parish Church of All Saints, walls to the north and west of All Saints Church, the Master’s House, the Master's Tower, Cutbush Almshouses, and a ruined gateway.