London Inn of the Bishop of Chichester

Has been described as a Certain Palace (Bishop)

There are no visible remains

NameLondon Inn of the Bishop of Chichester
Alternative Names
Historic CountryLondon and Middlesex
Modern AuthorityLondon Borough of Camden
1974 AuthorityGreater London
Civil ParishCamden

London Inn of the Bishop of Chichester. Land by New Temple given by Henry III upon which a 'noble house' erected by Ralph Neville, Bishop of Chichester (Henry III's Lord Chancellor), now occupied by Lincoln's Inn.

The establishment of this house helped to transform the area, then a relatively undeveloped suburb on the outskirts of London, into the important legal centre it is today. Functioning as the headquarters for the Lord Chancellor's legal team as well as his home when he was in London, there would have been a great hall, chapel, lodgings, kitchen, stables and possibly other ancillary buildings. (TimeTeam)

A Time Team evaluation discovered "the foundation trench of what Phil Harding described as a 'massive building … with beautiful painted window glass and Greensand mouldings around the windows and doors'. Stone-built, Phil reckoned it was probably the great hall of Ralph Neville's palace, an assessment aided by the discovery of a sherd of south Hertfordshire greyware pottery dating from the 12th-13th century under the wall's foundation." (TimeTeam)

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County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTQ309813
Latitude51.5164985656738
Longitude-0.11438000202179
Eastings530900
Northings181300
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Books

  • Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p. 172
  • Schofield, J., 1995, Medieval London Houses (Yale University Press) p. 170-1 No. 47 (plan)
  • Lobel, M.D. (ed), 1989, The City of London from prehistoric times to c.1520 British Atlas of Historic Towns Vol. 3 p. 69, 79 (Oxford University Press) online copy
  • Weinreb, Ben and Hibbert, Christopher (eds), 1983 (rev edn 1993), The London Encyclopeadia (Macmillian) p. 457
  • Williams, E., 1927, Early Holborn and the Legal Quarter in London (Sweet and Maxwell) Vol. 2 p. 1547
  • RCHME, 1925, Inventory of Historic Monuments in London Vol. 2: West London (HMSO) p. 45 online transcription
  • Morewood, Caroline C., 1910, 'Introductory Chapter' in Rait, R.S. (ed), English Episcopal Palaces (Province of Canterbury) (London; Constable & Co) p. 23-4 online copy
  • Walker, J.D. (ed), 1897, Records of the Society of Lincoln's Inn: the Black Books Vol. 1 (1422-1585)

Antiquarian

  • Anthony van den Wyngaerde, c. 1543, Panorama of London online copy

Journals

  • Kingsford, C.L., 1917, 'Historical Notes on Medieval London Houses (Part 2)' London Topographical Record Vol. 11 p. 33
  • Kingsford, C.L., 1916, 'Historical Notes on Medieval London Houses (Part 1)' London Topographical Record Vol. 10 p. 88-90

Other

  • Time Team (Mike Aston et al), 2009, March 08 (1st broadcast), 'Called to the Bar: Lincoln's Inn, London' Time Team TV Programme (Time Team, a Videotext/Picture House production for Channel 4) view online
  • Payne, Naomi, 2003, The medieval residences of the bishops of Bath and Wells, and Salisbury (PhD Thesis University of Bristol) Appendix B: List of Medieval Bishop's Palaces in England and Wales (available via EThOS)