At The Archbishops’ Palace in Charing

At The Archbishops’ Palace in Charing

In the heart of the Kentish Weald, at the centre of the village of Charing, lies a collection of ancient flint buildings that comprise the remains of a majestic archbishops’ palace dating back to the eighth century. Within the precincts sit a gatehouse, an enormous barn with a soaring timber roof that was once the great hall (where Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon dined in 1520 on their way to meet Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold),…