London Inn of the Bishop of Salisbury

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Salisbury Court; Salisbury House; Dorset House

In the civil parish of City Of London.
In the historic county of London, City of (Modern Authority of London, City of, 1974 county of Greater London).

London Inn of the Bishop of Salisbury. 'The next is Salisbury Court, a place so called, for that it belonged to the Bishops of Salisbury, and was their Inne or London house at such time as they were summoned to come to Parliament (Stow). On Fleet Street between St Brides and Whitefriars with a river frontage. Licence to crenellate granted for house Fleet Street 1337, repeated 1377. Site acquired 1194. The house was often used by visiting royalty. In 1564 it was purchased by Richard Sackville, the Sackvilles being created Earls of Dorset in 1603, and renamed Dorset House. Burnt in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Some possibly brick foundations found in 1983.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ31508107

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 404991

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p439, 627-9
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p167, 168, 184
Schofield, J., 1994, Medieval London House (Yale University Press) p183 No79
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p412

Journal Articles

Honeybourne, M.B., 1947, 'The Fleet and Its Neighbourhood in Early and Medieval Times' London Topographical Record Vol19 p1-8

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 (1334-38) p498
Calendar of Patent Rolls (1377-81) p9, 10

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/midlesexeng.html#mids13]
Stow, John, 1633 [3edn], Survey of London p437

Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)

Honeybourne, M.B., 1929, The extent and Value of the Property in London and Southwark Occupied by the Religious Houses (including the prebends of St Paul's and St Martin le Grand), the Inns of the Bishops and Abbots and the Churches and Churchyards, Before the Dissolution of the Monaseries (Unpub MA Thesis, Univesity of London) p334-8

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