More information : [Users please note that the construction date quoted in sources 2-3 is now regarded as being superseded by more recent research and is thought to be slightly later: see source 6 for details].
[TQ 20037020] Gallows Conduit[NAT] (1)
Gallows Conduit, c.1514, part of Cardinal Wolsey's water supply system for Hampton Court Palace. It consists of two rectangular buildings but without a correcting tunnel, each chamber having a cistern flush with the floor. However, the upper chamber is now inaccessible, being beneath a rockery, and the cistern in the lower chamber has been concreted over. GRADE II* (2-3)
Scheduled: Lon 92b (4)
System of pipelines and conduits supplying Hampton Court Palace, some three miles North-east of the palace. The conduit house is set on a spring line, an in the grounds of Wolsey Spring, a private house. (5)
A late Henrician conduit, part of a system that was constructed between 1538-1545 as the needs of Henry VIII's court outgrew the earlier water supply systems built in the time of Cardinal Wolsey. (6) |