4290 x 2849 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
27 septembre 2012
Lieu:
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Queen Anne's Block forms part of the Royal Naval Hospital facing the River Thames at Greenwich. Development of the buildings on the site began with the erection of a palace by Charles II to replace the existing Tudor Palace of Placentia or Greenwich Palace, which had fallen into decline during the Commonwealth. Little now remains of this Tudor palace (and nothing above ground). William and Mary, preferred to live at Hampton Court and proposed that the buildings should be used as a Naval Hospital with Christopher Wren being asked to prepare plans in 1694. Completion of the scheme took over 50 years. The chapel (domed building in photograph) was built between 1735 and 1743. The Hospital opened to Naval pensioners in 1755 but by the later 19th century there was less need for residential accommodation and the Hospital closed in 1869. In 1873 the premises were taken over by the Royal Naval College. The Royal Navy left the College in 1998 and it passed to the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College. A number of new uses and activities have been found for the site and in 1999 the Queen Anne building together with a number of the others were leased to the University of Greenwich for 250 years. Part of the site is also leased to Trinity College of Music.
