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Winchester Palace

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  • Address
    • Clink St Southwark, SE1
  • Transport
    • London Bridge

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Lonely Planet review for Winchester Palace

All that remains of a huge palace complex, built by the powerful and corrupt bishops of Winchester in the early 12th century, is a 14th-century rose window carved in a wall from the Great Hall, and parts of the flooring, both visible from the street. The rose window was discovered in a Clink St warehouse in 1814.

The palace was built in 1109 and remained the bishops' home for more than 500 years, before being converted into a prison for royalists under the puritanical Oliver Cromwell in 1642.

 

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