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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavation at Wayneflete's Tower, Esher: 18th century alterations by William Kent
PETER HARP
A salvage excavation within the footprint of a 20th century garage block at Wayneflete's Tower, Esher, the former gatehouse of the 15th century Palace of Esher built by William Wayneflete, Bishop of Winchester, was undertaken by Surrey Archaeological Society in 2007. The results revealed a series of cellar rooms associated with one of the wings added to the gatehouse by William Kent in the 18th century. Documentary evidence suggests these wings were built by Kent in the early 1730s, and subsequently demolished around 1805. The excavation demonstrated that the basement rooms mirrored the layout of the ground floor recorded in 1744 in a plan by John Vardy.
