Lambeth Palace
For seven centuries, the Archbishops of Canterbury have resided at Lambeth Palace. The oldest surviving building is the chapel, built in 1245, but Lollard's Tower is better known, for its former use as a prison.
Wycliffe was brought to trial here in 1378 for his protestant views, During the Civil war, the poet Richard Lovelace was detained here in 1649 for his Royalist views, and later wrote 'Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,'
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Lambeth Palace and pier |
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