Croydon Palace

]] The Manor of Croydon was connected with the Archbishop of Canterbury from at least the late Saxon period, and records of buildings date back to before 960. The location of the original manor house is unknown. A larger palace was required to accommodate the retinues of the archbishop and his guests, and as a staging post between Canterbury and Lambeth Palace. The palace as it now exists is a group of largely 15th- and 16th-century buildings, "an aggregate of buildings of different castes and ages", as Archbishop Herring found it in 1754. Only the parts used by the archbishops remain: the servants' quarters, which made up the remaining three and a half sides of an irregular quadrangle,…