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Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:30 – 16:00
Monday: 10:30 – 16:00
Tuesday: 10:30 – 16:00
Wednesday: 10:30 – 16:00
Thursday: 10:30 – 16:00
Friday: 10:30 – 16:00
Saturday: 10:30 – 16:00
What's not to miss inside?
Great Hall & Tudor Brickwork
Layers of power and hospitalityTimbers, brick, and later panelling show how bishops entertained—and how each era left its mark.
📍 Main house, central range
Walled Garden
A living archive of useful plantsLaid out for fruit, vegetables and exotics, the garden now revives historic beds and a Victorian vinery.
📍 North of the house
Botanic Beginnings
Early centre for plant introductionBishop Henry Compton (late 1600s) grew North American curiosities here—magnolias and other ‘new’ trees that Londoners had never seen.
📍 Garden displays & paths
The Moat Walk
Traces of one of England’s largest domestic moatsThe water once wrapped the palace like a private island; fragments remain in dips and lines of trees.
📍 Perimeter trail
Chapel & Museum Rooms
Faith, politics and daily life under one roofSmall displays link bishops to big events: civil wars, empire, and London’s growth.
📍 House interior, signposted
🤓 Fun Facts
Fulham Palace was the Bishops of London’s residence from AD 704 until 1973—over twelve centuries of almost continuous occupation.
Bishop Henry Compton turned the grounds into a pioneering botanic garden in the late 17th century, cultivating North American trees—some of the first grown in Britain.
The estate once sat inside one of the largest domestic moats in England; traces of the circuit can still be walked today.
A Victorian vinery in the walled garden revives the bishops’ taste for table grapes—heated walls and glass once pushed the London growing season.
