Historic house · Southwark · London

Winchester Palace

Winchester Palace is a twelfth-century palace. The built-up area of Southwark includes it. It counts as a scheduled monument.

Photo: Winchester Palace, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Southwark

inside the built-up area

Run by

English Heritage

a national heritage body

How well known

Top 16%

#1,300 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–24°C

In brief

Historic house in Southwark

Inside Southwark

Winchester Palace is inside Southwark’s built-up area, with 353 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Cared for by English Heritage

One of the places English Heritage looks after; members usually get in free. About ↓

Scheduled monument

On the official list of protected heritage; Southwark has 910 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The seasons here

The warmest afternoons in Southwark run May to September, at 18–24°C.

Jan9° / 3°57 mm

Feb9° / 3°44 mm

Mar12° / 5°38 mm

Apr15° / 6°44 mm

May18° / 9°47 mm

Jun21° / 12°51 mm

Jul24° / 14°48 mm

Aug23° / 14°59 mm

Sep20° / 12°51 mm

Oct16° / 9°67 mm

Nov12° / 6°65 mm

Dec9° / 3°60 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Southwark, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Southwark. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Southwark’s full climate →

About

Winchester Palace

Its upkeep is handled by English Heritage. Articles on it exist in 4 languages. Within 15 km there are 599 more places to visit, starting with Tower of London (1 km).

Southwark’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Historic house
Run by: English Heritage
Listed: Scheduled monument
Wikipedias: Covered in 4 languages
Town: in Southwark
Official site: english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/winchester-palace

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Getting to Winchester Palace

The places near Winchester Palace are numbered on the map in the order below.

Towns near it

Towns near Winchester Palace

With 317,108 people, Lambeth is the largest of the 8. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.

1 · It’s in town

Southwark

307,076 people · 471 places to visit

2 · 200 m north of it

City of London

7,820 people · 432 places to visit

3 · 800 m east of it

Tower Hamlets

311,072 people · 430 places to visit

4 · 1.1 km south of it

Lambeth

317,108 people · 450 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Winchester Palace is	People	Places to visit
Southwark	It’s in town	307,076	471
City of London	200 m north of it	7,820	432
Tower Hamlets	800 m east of it	311,072	430
Lambeth	1.1 km south of it	317,108	450
Islington	1.4 km north of it	216,309	425
Westminster	1.5 km west of it	203,571	461
Camden	1.5 km northwest of it	209,342	458
Hackney	1.5 km north of it	258,464	407

Make a day of it

Next door to Winchester Palace

2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a castle are among the 599 within 15 km.

Big drawCastleTower of London1 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum2.8 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3

Big drawArt galleryTate Modern600 m away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)4

CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral900 m away 5

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey2.7 km away 6

AttractionElizabeth Tower2.4 km away 7

AttractionLondon Eye2 km away 8

Historic houseBuckingham Palace3.6 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Quick answers on Winchester Palace

Where is Winchester Palace?

Winchester Palace is in Southwark, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Winchester Palace?

Twelfth-century palace in London.

Who runs Winchester Palace?

English Heritage, so members usually get in free; check opening times before you go.

When is the best time to visit Winchester Palace?

May to September are the warmest months in Southwark, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Winchester Palace a listed building?

Yes: scheduled monument.

What else is there to see near Winchester Palace?

Within 15 km: Tower of London (1 km), British Museum (2.8 km), Tate Modern (600 m) and St Paul's Cathedral (900 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Winchester Palace: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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