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Richmond Palace was a Tudor royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Situated in what was then rural Surrey, it lay upstream and on the opposite bank from the Palace of Westminster, which was located nine miles (14 km) to the north-east.
The museum is located at the Old Town Hall, Richmond. A model of Richmond Palace is on permanent display at the museum. This window glass fragment from Richmond Palace is in the museum's permanent display. One of the museum's highlights is The Terrace and View from Richmond Hill, Surrey by Dutch draughtsman and painter Leonard Knyff (1650–1722).
Richmond Place, now known as Asgill House, is a Grade I listed [1] 18th-century Palladian villa [2] on Old Palace Lane in Richmond, London (historically in Surrey), overlooking the River Thames. The house is on the former site of the river frontage and later the brewhouse for the medieval and Tudor Richmond Palace .
The coat of arms of the borough was granted on 19 June 1891. The arms is per fess gules and azure on a fess ermine between in chief a lion passant guardant between two portcullises or and in base a swan argent upon water proper; a representation of the ancient Palace of Richmond proper between two roses gules barbed and seeded proper.
Trumpeters' House is a Grade I listed building in Richmond in southwest London. It is located in Old Palace Yard close to Richmond Green on the site of the former Richmond Palace. A brick mansion, it was constructed during the reign of Queen Anne during the early eighteenth century. Sheen Palace had existed since the Middle Ages.
Richmond Palace – a view published in 1765 and based on earlier drawings. Henry I lived briefly in the King's house in "Sheanes". In 1299, Edward I, the "Hammer of the Scots", took his whole court to the manor house at Sheen, a little east of the bridge and on the riverside, and it thus became a royal residence; William Wallace was executed in London in 1305, and it was in Sheen that the ...
Sheen Priory from the west, c. 1558–62, detail from sketch of Richmond Palace (see below) by Wyngaerde.Note annotation above "cien". Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Sheen Priory (ancient spelling: Shene, Shean, etc.) in Sheen, now Richmond, London, was a Carthusian monastery founded in 1414 within the royal manor of Sheen, on the south bank of the Thames, upstream and approximately 9 miles ...
The museum's highlights include 16th-century glass from Richmond Palace and a painting, The Terrace and View from Richmond Hill, Surrey by Dutch draughtsman and painter Leonard Knyff (1650–1722), which is part of the Richmond upon Thames Borough Art Collection. [29]