John of Gaunt's Palace, Lincoln

John of Gaunt's Palace was a late 14th-century merchant's house which stood in the lower part of Lincoln High Street, opposite the St Mary Guildhall.

The palace was initially built by a member of the wealthy Sutton family of Lincoln merchants in the latter years of the 14th century, on land immediately to the north of St Andrew's church.

There was also a possible lodgings block to the north of the main street front range, which had the arms of John of Gaunt along with other heraldic shields shown above the doors.

A drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm shows a building described as the Old Hospital abutting on to the hall range with its two fine late medieval windows.

The hospital building should date from around 1500, and the lozenge-shaped terminals to the doorway and the sunken panels to the spandrels find a very close parallel with the Chancery, in Minster Yard, Lincoln.

[8] The Grade II* listed Romanesque door arch of St Andrew's Hall, dating from about 1150, salvaged during demolition in 1783, was re-sited in 1907 in the former Lincoln Arms, now Bang and Olufsen.

Portrait of John of Gaunt wearing his coat of arms on his tabard .
The Old Hospital, Lincoln, at the back of John of Gaunt's Palace; since demolished.
Colonel Bromhead's House, High Street, Lincoln c 1784