2-699-364 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hall of Winchester House', (c1878). Winchester Palace on the south bank of the River Thames, (now south London), was the seat of the bishops of Winchester. The great hall was built in c1136. The palace was mostly destroyed by fire in 1814. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]