british history

[jknappva]

what's known about Hampton Court Palace history and origin?

[Eric Git]

Cardinal Woolsey had it built and Henry 8th took it off him when he fell out of favour. The big clock on the front was commissioned by Henry 8th. If you log onto to HRP it will tell you all about it.

[vehelpfulguy]

See here

http://www.historicroyalpalaces.org/webcode/ti meline.asp?ID=9

[Octavius]

Asuming you are not referring to the one in Herefordshire.....

The Knights Hospitaller had operated a farm on the site since 1236. In 1505, the Lord Chamberlain, Sir Giles Daubeney, leased the property and used it to entertain Henry VII.

Thomas Wolsey, then Archbishop of York and Chief Minister to King Henry VIII, took over the lease in 1514 and rebuilt the 14th-century manor house over the next seven years (1515�1521) to form the nucleus of the present palace.

Henry VIII received the palace from Wolsey in the mid to late 1520s, although the Archbishop retained apartments there. Not much of Wolsey's original building remains due to the remodeling by Henry VIII and later kings. Part of the Great Hall are probably from Wolsey's palace, and the structure of the Base Court looks much like it did in Wolsey's time. The parts of the kitchens from the original building are also very much as they were in Wolsey's first building.

[Tatty Rollox]

......this is what it looks like from the air, here is the man that built it, and here is the man that took it off him ...

[vehelpfulguy]

tatty rollox,

I am being pedantic here, but you say "here is the man that built it".

But it is more true to say "here is the man who built SOME of it".

The section in the top right in your fantastic aerial photo was added by a later king, although I cannot remember which one, a George perhaps ?

[Tatty Rollox]

Quite right. From 1236 onwards it was a farm. Thomas Wolsey (actually Wulcy) took it over in 1514. He demolished the farm buildings and built his palace. Henry VIII took it over in 1525. He demolished much of Wolsey's work and built the Great Hall. William and Mary (1689 - 1702) then demolished quite a bit of Henry's work and built the wing you refer to. George III (1760 - 1820) lost interest in it early on in his reign and it was no longer used as a Royal Palace. Queen Victoria opened it to the public in 1838.

[.crete.]

what about a picture of the poor sod that swept the chimneys?