Monument record TR 14 SE 7 - Medieval manor house

[TR15994086] Manor House [GT] (site of). (1)

The foundations of the manor house of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lyminge are marked by mounds in the Court Lodge Green. The house was built by Lanfranc and became ruinous after 1382. (2,3)

No trace of building was found in Court Lodge Green, a pasture field containing many pits, (probably small, disused quarries), terrace-like features, and one rectangular platform, probably the site of a small building. (4)

(TR15994086) Archiepiscopal Palace (NR) (site of AD 1078) (NAT) (5).

The foundations of the building are marked by the vast mounds and terraces which fill Court odge Green, the original site of the manor house. Periodically, parts of these have been uncovered, including the foundations of and oblong room with an inner chamber beyond, bearing some resemblance to the ground plan of a smal chapel.

The ancient residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Lyminge. It is the earliest place mentioned in the Register of Archbishop Peckham, the first known, and was visited by him in 1279. In 1382 Archbishop Courtney grantsd a commission to sell the houses and stones of certain of his manors, and in 1387 the custody of the park at Lyminge was united with that of the park at Saltwood, presumably indicating that the house had been demolished between those dates. Building stone, probably from the site, including a number of carved Norman capitals have been found at Great Woodlands Farm, North Lyminge, Ottinge, and in a wall at the Rectory. (6)

<1> George Payne, 1889, Archaeologia Cantiana: On a Roman Statue and other remains in the Dover Museum Vol. 18 (Article in serial). SKE31795.