Wayneflete Tower
| Wayneflete Tower | |
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Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Wayneflete Tower | |
| Type: | Gatehouse |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ13376491 |
| Location: | 51°22’19"N, 0°22’21"W |
| Village: | Esher |
| History | |
| Built 1475-80 | |
| For: | Bishop William Waynflete |
| Gatehouse | |
| Information | |
Wayneflete Tower, also known as 'Wayneflete's Tower' is a mediæval, late Plantagenet gatehouse in Esher, in northern Surrey. It was originally part of the Palace of Esher, later Esher Place, and is now a private house, within an upper-crust private housing estate, the Esher Place Estate.
The building is a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
The tower was part of the Palace of Esher established in 1462 by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester: the tower itself was built in 1475-80, and was connected to the keep by a curtain wall. In the reign of King Henry VIII, the estate came into the hands of its most famous, or infamous, occupant, Cardinal Wolsey. Soon after his downfall the estate fell to the Crown, and under Queen Elizabeth I it was sold.
Demolition in the 17th century removed from the Tower furnishings and granite blocks.[2] In the 18th century, the tower was made part of a Gothic mansion house by William Kent for new owner Henry Pelham.
In 2006, Wayneflete Tower was the subject of an ITV Time Team investigation.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1286940: Wayneflete's Tower
- ↑ Denig, Andres (July 1922). "Lords and Barons: French Influence on British Architecture". Journal of the Architectural Progression in Europe. 2: 23–25. http://artofpetc.org/ba/historians_principles/120php?=2300/sample5text.
- ↑ Time Team investigation
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Surrey, 1962; 1971 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09675-0
- National Monuments Record: No. 397606 – Wayflete Tower
- Penny Rainbow: 'The Tower of Esher'
- Wessex Archaeology report on the Time Team investigation
