Palace Street

This is the street the Archbishop's Palace faces out onto, so much of one side of the street is grey wall. But it is also home to some notable buildings.

At the end of the street is a charity bookshop with a very crooked door:

Conquest House is where the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket are rumoured to have rendezvoused.

The American Pancake House at the southern end of Palace Street, where it joins Sun Street, was the home of Phillipe de la Noye, one of the early Pilgrim fathers, who sailed to Massachusetts on  the Fortune. When he arrived "de la Noye changed his name to delano. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his descendant.” (Pitkin Guide to Canterbury, p 24) It was in this building that Robert Cushman, "a Canterbury’s grocer’s assistant ... negotiated the charter of the Mayflower" (Pitkin Guide to Canterbury, p 24)

“Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear, was born ... at 51 Palace Street on 28 January 1874.” ((Pitkin Guide to Canterbury, p 26)