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Detailed design work As a result of the recent funding awards from the Department of Digital culture Media and Sport, and the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust,… Read More »An update

• More help for heritage in need with £14 million investment in England’s historic sites
• The Archbishop’s Palace Conservation Trust is among 162 organisations receiving lifeline grant from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund
• Culture across the country benefits as 70 per cent of latest Culture Recovery funding awarded outside London

Lifeline grants from the latest round of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund will protect a further 162 heritage sites to ensure that jobs and access to arts, culture and heritage in local communities are protected in the months ahead, the Culture Secretary announced today.

Historic sites including the Archbishop’s Palace in Otford will receive help to meet ongoing costs and support to restart activity when it is possible to do so safely.

Read More »Help for heritage as Archbishop’s Palace Conservation Trust receives lifeline from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund

The covid-19 pandemic came at an unfortunate time for the Archbishop’s Palace Conservation Trust.  Both the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England put their… Read More »Otford Palace needs your help

After lengthy discussions, the Archbishop’s Palace Conservation Trust and the Otford Heritage Centre have reached agreement on a programme of close collaboration which, it is… Read More »Heritage collaborates for the future

Two more videos have been added to the Archbishop’s Palace collection – The Story of Becket’s Well, and The Story of the Papal Bulls.  You… Read More »The Story of Becket’s Well and The Story of the Papal Bulls

Except for the Trustees and those who carried out the recent repairs works, relatively few people alive today have seen the interior of the North-West… Read More »Interactive interior

With great regret, we have postponed our re-enactment of the visit of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon to Otford in 1520.  In the current… Read More »Field of the Cloth of Gold – postponed

It has been agreed that the Trust will become the delivery partner for the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme project 2D: Otford’s Hidden Palace. The… Read More »A delivery partner for the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme

The Trust and Sevenoaks District Council are delighted to announce that the 99-year lease of the Archbishop’s Palace site and buildings was completed on 19th… Read More »The lease

Observant walkers in Station Road Otford will have noticed a Tudor door being used as a garden gate, just past the end of the garden… Read More »The Tudor Door