Palace of Placenta
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The Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace,[1] was an English royal residence that was initially built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443.[2][3] The palace was a place designed for pleasure, entertainment and an escape from the city.[4] It was located at Greenwich on the south bank of the River Thames, downstream from London. On a hill behind the palace he built Duke Humphrey's Tower, later known as Greenwich Castle; it was subsequently demolished to make way for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which survives. The original river-side residence was extensively rebuilt around 1500 by Henry VII. A detached residence, the Queen's House, was built on the estate in the early 1600s and also survives. In 1660, the main palace was demolished by Charles II to make way for a proposed new palace, which was never constructed. Nearly forty years later, the Greenwich Hospital (now called the Old Royal Naval College) was built on the site.
- ↑ William Shoberl (1840). A Summer's Day at Greenwich. H. Colburn. p. 34.
- ↑ John Bold (2000). Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen's House. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with English Heritage. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-300-08397-2.
- ↑ John Richardson (2000). The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History. University of California Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-520-22795-8.
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