What is recorded here

King John's Palace in Kings Clipstone is a Romanesque ruin where Henry II built a hunting residence and deer park before Richard I and Edward I used the site for royal meetings. The surviving chamber once looked out over the forest through carved windows, while lost halls, chapels and stables filled the wider complex. It is fitting that the name came later, because the place belongs to every king who rode through Sherwood and every person who still imagines life inside the empty stones.

The National Heritage List for England records King John's Palace as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built by King John of England in the late 12th or early 13th century, the palace is remembered as a symbol of royal authority and is significant for its historical association with one of England’s most controversial medieval monarchs.

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