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The Old Royal Naval College are buildings that serve as the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, [1] a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London, described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as being of "outstanding universal value" and reckoned to be the "finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British ...
The former chapel of the Royal Naval College. The college was established in buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1696 and 1712, then intended to serve as the Greenwich Hospital, a home for disabled sailors.
Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings, initially Greenwich Palace, in Greenwich, London, were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word "hospital" was used in ...
The Greenwich Hospital complex became the Greenwich Royal Naval College in 1873, when the naval college was moved from Portsmouth. [26] The buildings are today occupied by the University of Greenwich and the music faculty of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. [17] [27]
English: Sir Thomas Hardy (1769 – 1839) memorial monument, in the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the Old Royal Naval College, (Royal Naval College), previously Greenwich Hospital, in Greenwich, London, England. Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS.
Britannia Royal Naval College became the sole naval college in the United Kingdom following the closures of the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, in 1994 and of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1998. [12] In 2020, a group of Junior Rates were trained at BRNC to help alleviate added pressure on HMS Raleigh, after a surge in ...
The memorial to Richard James Meade, Chapel of the Old Naval College, Greenwich. Admiral of the Fleet Richard James Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam, GCB, KCMG (3 October 1832 – 4 August 1907), styled Lord Gillford until 1879, was a Royal Navy officer.
Royal Naval College may refer to: Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth (1733–1837), renamed the Royal Naval College in 1806; Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1873–1998) Royal Naval College, Osborne (1903–1921) Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (1905–present), renamed Britannia Royal Naval College in 1953