The Civil War left it in a bad state and Charles II had the Tudor buildings demolished intending to build a sumptuous replacement. It remained empty until the Greenwich Hospital was built. See other memorials in this area.
The dates - are approximate. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter and stay up to date on History of Royal Women's articles! Not interested? Simply click 'close' in the top right corner to continue reading! Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Like this: Like Loading Fortunately they ran out of money. The new fast ferries at Greenwich have been eroding the shore revealing the timbers.
It was exciting to find the bases of these in the mud in the exact location shown on the drawing. In the sand and mud along the foreshore there were also large numbers of Tudor artefacts: green glazed pottery, Bellarmine beer pots from the Rhine, bones of boars, lamb, chickens, beef, and oyster shells and other rubbish, thrown off the pontoon near the kitchens four hundred and fifty years ago.
The Maritime Museum has been asked to confirm that this was the base of a quadruped navigation beacon to shine a light at night to guide sailors to the pontoon. A flaming beacon would be dangerous to sailing boats if it were sighted actually on the pontoon.
There was a 1. Leading down to the shore are timber piles in two rows 6 m apart, and slotted bases of uprights circa 10 m apart. Wyngaerde also drew the long Placentia Palace building where doorways and towers correspond exactly with positions in the archaeological excavation of Tragically nothing is left of the actual Placentia Palace. This was one of the most important Tudor Palaces. It was constructed as a bastion by Henry VII under the direction of his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort , an ambitious, very wealthy, pious, and ruthless woman.
She realised after the Battle of Bosworth the first thing for her son to build was a defensive bastion. Henry used the stone foundations of an old farm house including the two kitchen chimneys, built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, when he was Regent as brother of Henry V.
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