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| Architect | Sir Christopher Wren |
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| Location | Greenwich, England (near London) map | |||||||||
| Date | 1696 to 1715 timeline | |||||||||
| Building Type | palace complex | |||||||||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | |||||||||
| Climate | mild | |||||||||
| Context | suburban, on riverside | |||||||||
| Style | English Renaissance | |||||||||
| Notes | Not to be confused with Wren's Greenwich Observatory, 1675-1676. | |||||||||
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| Discussion | Greenwich Hospital Commentary
"Greenwich Hospital is a splendid palace scheme devised by Wren to include the Queen's House and King Charles's Block..." — Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p1022. | |||||||||
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Sources on Greenwich Hospital
James Stevens Curl. Classical Architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. ISBN 0-442-30896-5. NA260.C87. overview photo from across river with Queens House in background, f5.42, p126. Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. p1004, 1007, 1008, 1022. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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