Lambeth Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Lollards Tower; Chicele's Tower; Water Tower

In the civil parish of Lambeth.
In the historic county of Surrey (Modern Authority of London Borough of Lambeth, 1974 county of Greater London).

Lollard's Tower built 1434 as safe refuge within the complex of buildings that make up the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

This site has been described as a;
Tower House
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ30617909

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 404441

Web site links

http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/Lambeth.htm
http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_houses/lambethpalace_house1.htm

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p235-8
Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p13
Tatton-Brown, Tim, 2000, Lambeth Palace: A history of the Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Homes (SPCK)
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p11, 66-7, 74-7, 111, 158, 170
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p242
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby) p23, 67, 70-2, 155
Dodwell, C.R., 1958, Lambeth Palace
Roberts, H. and Godfrey, W.H., 1951, Survey of London Vol23 p81-103 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47051]
Gardiner, D., 1930, The Story of Lambeth Palace
RCHME, 1925, Inventory of Historic Monuments in London Vol2: West London (HMSO) p79-86
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol1 (London) p58-62
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p310
Herbet, W. and Brayley, E.W., 1806, A Concise Account, Historical and Descriptive, of Lambeth Palace
Ducarel, A.C., 1785, 'The History and Antiquities of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Canterbury' in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica Vol2 no4

Journal Articles

Haslam, R., 1990, Country Life

Guidebooks

Huelin, Gordon, 1974, Lambeth Palace: A Short History (Church Info)

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/barkseng.html#surrey11]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p225

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