Lambeth Palace
— — a brick gatehouse the river has watched for five centuries.
Not only on a wall.
“The London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury for roughly eight hundred years. Morton's Tower, the red-brick Tudor gatehouse, faces the river across from the Palace of Westminster. Behind it sits a working medieval chapel, a great hall rebuilt after the Civil War, and one of the oldest public libraries in England. The garden, walled and quiet, is one of the largest private gardens in central London. from the studio
Lambeth Palace, on ceramic.
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Lambeth Palace has been the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury since around 1200, when Archbishop Hubert Walter acquired the manor of Lambeth from the Bishop of Rochester. The site sits on the south bank of the Thames in the London Borough of Lambeth, directly across the river from the Palace of Westminster. The complex includes Morton's Tower, the red-brick gatehouse built by Cardinal John Morton in the 1490s; a thirteenth-century crypt; a chapel; and the Great Hall rebuilt by Archbishop Juxon after Civil War damage in the 1660s.
Morton's Tower is one of the earliest surviving examples of English Tudor brickwork, completed around 1495 under Cardinal John Morton. The diaper-pattern brick, with its dark vitrified headers picked out against red stretchers, became a hallmark of the period. The Great Hall, with its hammerbeam roof, was rebuilt in the 1660s in a deliberately archaic Gothic style — Samuel Pepys, visiting shortly after, called it a new old-fashioned hall. The chapel undercroft survives from around 1230.
Lambeth Palace is a working residence, not a daily-open museum. Guided tours run on selected dates and must be booked in advance through the Archbishop's office; the Lambeth Palace Library, founded by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, moved into a new purpose-built building on the grounds in 2021 and welcomes researchers by appointment. The garden opens to the public on a handful of dates each year, usually in spring. The nearest Underground station is Lambeth North on the Bakerloo line.