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Palace of Placentia
The Palace of Placentia (Greenwich Palace) was an English royal residence on the south bank of the River Thames at Greenwich, founded in the mid-15th century and extensively rebuilt by Henry VII around 1500. It was a principal Tudor royal palace, birthplace of monarchs and a centre for court life before most of it was demolished in the late 17th century and the site later occupied by Greenwich Hospital (now the Old Royal Naval College).
First raised
1443
Its prime
1515
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1515
The shape it held in its prime.
A long, river-fronting Tudor palace of red brick and timber stretching roughly 200 metres along the Thames, with a prominent five-storey donjon tower and paired octagonal towers beside a tiltyard. Brick façades punctuated by vertical mullioned windows, steep tiled roofs and stepped gables face the river; a timber-framed service range lay to the rear. The palace presented a continuous, crenellated silhouette of towers, chimneys and gabled rooflines above a riverside jetty and mooring piles.
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9 places to explore in 1515.
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Principal Tudor royal palace, extensively rebuilt by Henry VII around 1500 and a birthplace of monarchs.
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