REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE

REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE, CLINK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378484
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE, CLINK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378484
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE, CLINK STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF WINCHESTER PALACE, CLINK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32572 80391

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE CLINK STREET 636-1/17/211 (South side) 02/03/50 Remains of Winchester Palace (Formerly Listed as: CLINK STREET (South side) Remains of Winchester Palace (incorp'ted in warehouses .. E from Stoney Street))

II*

Great hall of Bishop of Winchester's palace (remains), now incorporated in warehouses. Early C14. Walls of mainly original early C14 stonework (on earlier foundations) consist of high west wall with part of return wall south, with excavations on a rectangular plan exposed to east. Between 3rd- and 4th-floor levels of west wall, remains of C14 rose window (restored 1972) with inserted hexagon of 18 cusped triangles. Beneath, on 1st floor, 3 arched openings with traces of jambs. At basement level on east side of west wall are stone vault springers. On south wall, between ground and 1st floor, a C14 pointed-arched doorway with moulded arch and jambs, attached shafts and caps, with remains of arched opening below. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: this was the town residence of the Bishops of Winchester from the C12 to the Civil War, when it was used as a civil prison. By the C18 warehouses had been established over most of the site, forming the main character of the Clink area. The medieval ruin is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: TQ3257280391

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Legacy System number:: 470785
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.