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Penshurst Place
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Penhurst Palace
In the civil parish of Penshurst.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
Country house originally constructed as a manor house during the early C14, built by John de Pulteney. A licence to crenellate was granted in 1341. A second licence to crenellate, granted in 1392, produced an enclosing outer wall with side and angle towers. The house was extended and altered in the late C14, in the 1430s, 1552, and during C17 to C18. Restorations were carried out circa 1818 and 1850s. The large, rambling house is built largely of sandstone, with tiled roofs. One altered battlemented square sandstone tower of circa 1400 survives. Forfeited to Henry VIII in 1521
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Palace.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1341 Oct 6.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1392 Sept 21.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 446478, 446479)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ52754398
PastScape number;
409388, 409412
- Web site links
- Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p386-94 [plans and reconstructions]
Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Kent (Malvern) p57
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p123-4
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press) p49, 68
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby) p111, 131
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Girouard, Mark, 1979, Historic Houses of Britain (Artus) [1984edn by Perage Books] p40-44
Newman, John, 1976, The buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald (Harmondsworth) p454-59
Binney, M. and Emery, A., 1973, The Architectural Development of Penshurst Place
Tipping, H.A., 1921, English Homes, period 1 Vol1 (London) p166-88
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol1 (London) p303-8
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p413, 420
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1853, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol2 p277-81
- Journal Articles
- Binney, M., 1972 March/May, Country Life
Parker, J.H., 1863 July, Gentleman's Magazine
- Guidebooks
- anon, n.d., Penshurst Place, Tonbridge, Kent (Curwen Press)
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls (1340-43) p331
Calendar of Patent Rolls (1392-96) p164
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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