Winchester Palace

Winchester Palace is a twelfth-century palace, serving as the residential property of the bishops of Winchester. Today, at the River Thames, we can only admire the remains of a former building: a fragment of the wall of a large hall with a rosette. The building is on the list of architectural monuments and is overseen by the English Heritage Foundation.

Winchester Palace was built on the orders of the English bishop Henry of Blois and served him as a London residence. Interestingly, at that time, most of the other English bishops also owned episcopal palaces in London, in particular the well-known Lambeth Palace, which was once the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The great hall, after which we can see the remains, was probably built in 1136. The palace was used until the 17th century, later - mainly as a result of a fire in 1814 - it was destroyed and from that time on the city map is mainly a historical curiosity.