Editing Lambeth Palace (section)

==History==
[[File:Lambeth Palace - geograph.org.uk - 343862.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The Great Hall, St Mary-at-Lambeth, and the Tudor gatehouse (from inside), with the river on the right.]]
While the original residence of the archbishop of Canterbury was in his [[episcopal see]], [[Canterbury|Canterbury, Kent]],<ref name="world and its people">{{cite book |last=Dunton |first=Larkin |title=The World and its People |url=https://archive.org/details/worldanditspeop05duntgoog |publisher=Silver, Burdett |year=1896 |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldanditspeop05duntgoog/page/n45 37]}}</ref> a site originally called the Manor of Lambeth or Lambeth House was acquired by the [[diocese]] around [[Anno Domini|AD]] 1200 (though Archbishop [[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]] had a house there a century earlier)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Emery |first=Anthony |title=Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |volume=III |location=Cambridge |pages=235-237}}</ref> and has since served as the archbishop's London residence. The site was chosen for its convenient proximity to the royal palace and government seat of Westminster, just across the Thames.<ref name=":0" /> The site is bounded by [[Lambeth Palace Road]] to the west and [[Lambeth Road]] to the south, but it is excluded from the [[parish]] of [[Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)|North Lambeth]] which encompasses all other surrounding land. The garden park is [[listed building|listed]] and resembles [[Archbishop's Park]], a neighbouring public park; however, it was a larger area with a notable [[orchard]] until the early 19th century. The former church in front of its entrance has been converted to the [[Garden Museum]].  The south bank of the Thames along this reach, not part of historic London, developed slowly because the land was low and sodden: it was called [[Lambeth Marsh]], as far downriver as the present [[Blackfriars Road]]. The origins of the name of Lambeth come from its first record in 1062 as ''Lambehitha'', meaning 'landing place for lambs' ('hitha' or 'hithe' referring to a landing on the river): archbishops came and went by water, as did [[John Wycliffe]], who was tried here for [[heresy]] in 1378. In the [[Peasants' Revolt]] of 1381, the palace was attacked. [[Reginald Pole|Cardinal Pole]] lay in state in the palace for 40 days after he died there in 1558. 

The palace was again [[Attack on Lambeth Palace, 1640|attacked in May 1640]] during a period of popular discontent with the [[Arminianism|Arminianist]] theology of the [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop]], [[William Laud]], in the hope of capturing him.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Walter |first1=J. |date=2024 |title='This Infamous, Scandalous, Headless Insurrection': The Attack on William Laud and Lambeth Palace, May 1640, Revisited |journal=The English Historical Review |pages=6–7 |doi=10.1093/ehr/ceae156|doi-access=free }}</ref> The palace was ransacked and partially demolished by the Parliamentarians in the [[English Civil War]] of the 1640s, necessitating major reconstruction, especially of the great hall, in 1660-63. 

New construction was added to the building in 1829–1834 by [[Edward Blore]] (1787–1879), who rebuilt much of [[Buckingham Palace]] later, in neo-Gothic style and it fronts a spacious quadrangle.<ref name=":0" /> Blore's large extensions to house the archbishop meant that the original buildings could be converted to the archdiocese's library, record office and secretariat.<ref name=":0" /> The palace was damaged in the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] of 1941. The buildings form the home of the archbishop, who is regarded as the [[first among equals]] in the [[Anglican Communion]], and is ''[[ex officio]]'' a member of the [[House of Lords]].