Clarendon Palace

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Clarindon

In the civil parish of Clarendon Park.
In the historic county of Wiltshire (Modern Authority of Wiltshire, 1974 county of Wiltshire).

Medieval manor and hunting lodge which was established during C12 as a Royal Palace. It was expanded during early C13 and comprised an irregular layout of buildings arranged around a courtyard. Rebuilding took place during mid C15but it became a lesser royal palace by late C16. Clarendon Palace was described as a lodge in 1574. Excavations in 1821 located the layout of the palace, further excavations have taken place during C20. Field investigations in 1973 found the palace buildings to extend over an area roughly 240m northeast-southwest by 80m, situated within a sub-rectangular enclosure formed either by a wall, or a bank which survives to a height of 1.2m. Both a bank and surmounting wall remain on the southeast side. Many of the buildings survive as footings exposed during excavation, but the east end of the Great Hall remains to a height of 5m.

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

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 319935)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU18193023

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 218453

• Web site links
  • http://www.astoft.co.uk/clarendonpalace.htm
• Books
  • Beaumont-James, Tom, and Gerrard, Christopher, 2007, Clarendon: Landscape of Kings (Windgather Press)
    Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p11, 14, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32-3, 51, 67, 85-6, 96, 105-7, 113-4, 140, 144-5, 149, 157, 160-2, 165-6
    James, Thomas Beaumont, 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London)
    James, Thomas Beaumont, and Robinson, A.M., 1988, Clarendon Palace: the History and Archaeology of a Medieval Palace and Hunting Lodge near Salisbury, Wiltshire (Society of Antiquaries/ Thames and Hudson)
    Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works, vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p66
    Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p910-918 [plan]
    Pevsner, N., 1963, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire (London, Penguin) p162
    Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p335
• Journal Articles
  • Bradley, J and Gaimster, M. (eds), 2004, 'Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2003' Medieval Archaeology Vol48 p295-6
    Eames, E., 1965, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol28 p57-85
    Borenius, J. and Charlton, J., 1936, 'Clarendon Palace: an interim report' Antiquaries Journal Vol16 p55-84
• 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 (1217-25) p124-5
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/wilshireeng.html#wilts16]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p498-9