Representing the night sky, crescent moon and the scintillis, being the pricks of starlight: at Winchester Cathedral gold stars are set against a dark blue background, at Clarendon this background is composed of crushed lapis lazuli from Afghanistan.
Being the Sun (Richard the Lionheart) and the Moon (Saladin) with whose combat Henry III wanted his Antioch chamber decorated.
Speeds map of Clarendon Park shows only ‘Kings Lodge’ (the gatehouse of the old palace) and ‘Queen Manor’.
reign of Charles I.
c 1588
Kennel Farm (re)built probably on site of royal kennels.
c 1220
New Sarum (Salisbury) was established and on 28 April, the foundation stones for the Cathedral were laid.
A Gothic landscape of palace and cathedral was evolving.
c 1580
Sir Philip Sidney, staying with Penruddock writes Arcadia nearby.
Describes Clarendon ‘that delicious park which is accounted the best in England’.
c 1604
King James's horse stumbles in a rabbit burrow and throws the king, while he is riding in the park. The king immediately orders the destruction of rabbit warrens.
Edward the Black Prince’s illegitimate son, Roger of Clarendon born.
Edward II enlarged the park.
Perhaps following his first recorded visit in February that year.
At 1737ha (4292 acres) it was the largest park in medieval England, and about the size of the park today.
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