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Charing Palace
In the civil parish of Charing.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
C14. This was the south side of the courtyard of the former manor house of the Archbishops of Canterbury and comprised the gatehouse and the porter's lodge. Probably built by John Stratford, who was Archbishop from 1333-1348 and whose favourite residence is said to have been Charing. Faced with flints. The south-east portion consists of the roofless remains of the gatehouse, comprising stone carriage and pedestrian archways with obtusely pointed heads. Gable end facing east with flint and brick buttresses at its angles. To the north-east of the gatehouse is a cottage of 2 storeys and 3 windows with a half-hipped tiled roof. The ground floor windows of the cottage are set in the stone surrounds to mediaeval windows. Then comes another ruined portion with a pointed stone archway flanked by buttresses and then another inhabited cottage of 2 storeys and attic, steeply-pitched tiled roof with one modern hipped dormer and 2 casement windows.
This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 180771, 180769, 180773)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ95434942
PastScape number;
419413, 1397493, 419458
- Web site links
- Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p320-26
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p171
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press) p50, 267n89
Newman, John, 1983, The Buildings of England: North east and east Kent p264
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works, vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p63-4
- Journal Articles
- Pearson, S., 2001, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol121 p315-49
Rigold, S.E., 1969, Archaeological Journal Vol126 p267
Kipps, P.K., 1934, 'The palace of the archbishops of Canterbury at Charing, Kent' Archaeological Journal Vol90 p78-97
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p225
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