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Beaumont Palace, built outside the north gate of Oxford, was intended by Henry I about 1130 to serve as a royal palace conveniently close to the royal hunting-lodge at Woodstock (now part of the park of Blenheim Palace ). Its former presence is recorded in Beaumont Street, Oxford.
Dec 8, 2023 · THE KING'S HOUSES. The king's houses, later called Beaumont Palace, were built by Henry I outside the town's North Gate, on a site at the western end of the later Beaumont Street. Henry I spent Easter at his new hall in Oxford in 1132; Richard I was born there in 1157 and John in 1167.
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Jul 31, 2023 · While Beaumont Palace (just a few streets away) was the official royal residence in Oxford, the castle was the seat of power, serving as royal court, jail, and execution site. Yearly Assizes (civil and criminal courts) were held there until the Black Plague made it too dangerous, and medieval kings met there with rebel leaders to settle ...
This report describes the archaeological excavations by Oxford Archaeological Unit, which took place in 1997-8. The first elements of the site to be examined were the back gardens, pits and privies of the fine stone houses built along St. John St and Beaumont St by 19th-century property speculators. Records from that period show that burials ...
- 19 Nov 2020 11:41
- Oxford Archaeology South > Fieldwork
- Scott
- Monograph (Project Report)
The excavations found evidence for a substantial east-west aligned buttressed stone building, which may originally have been built as part of the palace, but which ultimately formed part of the Friary complex. Slighter evidence for a second medieval building was revealed a short distance to the north-east.
It was restored by Worcester College in 2004, after it was hit by a vehicle in 2003 and left lying in the hedge of 24 Beaumont Street. Beaumont Palace was built outside Oxford’s North Gate in c.1130 by King Henry I (Henry Beauclerc), and he came to stay here at Easter 1133, celebrating the birth of his grandson, the future Henry II..
The development site is thought to lie at the eastern limit of the precinct of Beaumont Palace, a royal residence immediately outside the north wall of the medieval city of Oxford and in use c. 1132--1318. Numerous medieval pits were found aligned in rows and possibly dug as tree planters.
