Whitehall Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; York Place

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

York Place, the London residence of the Archbishops of York, was rebuilt by Wolsey between 1514 and 1529, and used as a royal palace from 1529 until the late C17 when it was used as an administrative centre. Destroyed by fire in 1968. York Place formed the core of the complex, and Henry VIII bought a series of properties on the west side of the road from Westminster to Charing Cross, upon which he built a number of buildings devoted to cock-fighting, tennis and bowls. A fragment of the Medieval palace remain off Horse Guards Avenue.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry footings remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ302801

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 404943, 404903

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p233
Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p159
Thurley, Simon, 1999, Whitehall Palace: an Architectural History of the Royal Apartments 1240-1690 (Yale University Press)
Thurley, Simon, 1998, The Lost Palace of Whitehall (RIBA Heinz Gallery)
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p187
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale)
Thurley, Simon, 1991, 'The domestic building works of Cardinal Wolsey' in Gunn, S. and Lindley, P. (eds), Cardinal Wolsey: Church State and Art (Cambridge) p76-102
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby)
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works, vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p300-343
RCHME, 1925, Inventory of Historic Monuments in London Vol2: West London (HMSO) p125-7, 128
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol1 (London) p168-72

Journal Articles

Thurley, Simon, 1998 Jan, 'The Lost Palace of Whitehall' History Today Vol48.1 p47-52
Green, H.J.M. and Thurley, S.J., 1990, 'Excavations on the East Side of Whitehall' London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions p59-130
1964, Medieval Archaeology Vol8 p270
1962-3, Medieval Archaeology Vol6-7 p33
1943, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol8 p51, 53
Caborne, W., 1917, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Vol3 p447-53
Smirke, S., 1834, Archaeologia Vol25 p113-8

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

Speed, John, 1611-12, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain [http://faculty.oxy.edu/horowitz/home/johnspeed/Cities28.htm]
William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/midlesexeng.html#mids19]

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