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Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed [2] royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles (19 kilometres) southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Opened to the public, the palace is managed by Historic Royal Palaces , a charity set up to preserve several unoccupied royal properties.
Outstanding surviving examples of early Tudor palatial architecture include Hampton Court Palace and Layer Marney Tower. Over the course of the 16th century Classical features derived from the Renaissance architecture of Italy exerted an increasing influence, initially on surface decoration but in time shaping the entire design of buildings ...
Informal tours of Hampton Court Palace had been available since the Elizabethan era, and by the 18th century access to the Palace and tours of the Royal Collection were arranged for small groups by the housekeeper, and included in tourists' guide books. [21] Hampton Court Palace was officially opened to the public in November 1838, [22] and the ...
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: A Social and Architectural History (Yale University Press, 1993) ISBN 9780300054200; Royal Lodgings at the Tower of London 1216-1327 (SAHGB, 1995) Hampton Court Palace: The Official Guidebook (Historic Royal Palaces, 1996) The Lost Palace of Whitehall (RIBA, 1998)
This design illustrates the dominance of a restrained Palladian-style in civic architecture of the mid-late Georgian period. A significant development for the future development of London which occurred in the 18th century was the construction of multiple new bridges across the River Thames: the first bridges built in London since the 13th century.
The Old Court House is a Grade II* listed [1] house located off Hampton Court Green in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; its origins date back to 1536.The architect Sir Christopher Wren, who lived there from 1708 to 1723, was given a 50-year lease on the property by Queen Anne in lieu of overdue payments for his work on St Paul's Cathedral. [2]
Hampton Court Palace, screen representing England, c. 1700 Plate from his New Book of Drawings, 1693. Jean Tijou (fl. 1689–1712) was a French Huguenot ironworker. He is known solely through his work in England, where he worked on several of the key English Baroque buildings. Very little is known of his biography.
Hampton Court Castle, also known as Hampton Court, is a castellated country house in the English county of Herefordshire.The house is in the parish of Hope under Dinmore 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Leominster and is a Grade I listed building, which is the highest category of architecture in the statutory protection scheme.