Clarendon Palace

Clarendon Palace was a royal hunting lodge in Clarendon Park, Wiltshire, England.

Today, he just ruins obtained from limestone and flint. The building was used as a temporary residence of the kings of Henry II (12th century) up to Henry VII ( 16th century). In particular, in the high Middle Ages, Clarendon Palace developed by a small hunting lodge to one of the most magnificent palaces in Europe, where the royal family and their guests resided in seclusion. 1164 Henry II issued here, the Constitutions of Clarendon, by which he sought to enforce the secular jurisdiction also in the spiritual realm.

Once the hunting lodge was no longer used by the kings, this gave the property to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. His successor, Peter Bathurst settled in the early 18th century a manor house in Clarendon Park building, while the actual palace fell into disrepair.

The ruins are since 1960, a grade II Listed Building.