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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. Set into a pillar on the north side of the street, near Walton ...
Dec 8, 2023 · 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. (fn. 1) Henry I spent Easter at his new hall in Oxford in 1132; (fn. 2) Richard I was born there in 1157 and John in 1167. (fn. 3) Work and repairs on the king's houses were carried out ...
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..
Oct 7, 2021 · In 1157, Richard I was born here. In 1318, Edward II granted the palace to the Whitefriars or Carmelites which had been founded their friary in the town in 1256. Before the building of the palace, English kings visiting the town stayed at Oxford Castle. This motte and bailey castle was built in 1071 on the site of an earlier settlement.
Beau-mont suggests a beautiful, gently rising hill, and to this day you can feel the land lifting as it leaves Hythe Bridge and makes for the centre of town. Here, beyond the North Gate and within sight of the castle, we have to imagine a fine Norman palace – royal chambers, cloisters, two chapels, kitchens, stables, store-rooms – a ...
The construction of the new Sackler Library for the University of Oxford provided an opportunity to investigate the former site of the royal palace at Beaumont, the birthplace of both King Richard I (Lionheart) and King John. This report describes the archaeological excavations by Oxford Archaeological Unit, which took place in 1997-8.
1683 – Museum of the History of Science. Known originally as the Old Ashmolean Building, it is the world’s oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, designed to house the collection of Elias Ashmole, one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society. It houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments.
