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Richmond Palace was a Tudor royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Situated in what was then rural Surrey, it lay upstream and on the opposite bank from the Palace of Westminster, which was located nine miles (14 km) to the north-east.
Il Palazzo di Richmond era una residenza reale sulla riva sud del Tamigi, a 14 km dal Palazzo di Westminster. Fu eretto nel 1501, all'interno del maniero reale di Sheen, da Enrico VII d'Inghilterra , precedentemente conosciuto con il titolo di conte di Richmond .
Richmond Palace was a Tudor Palace, built by King Henry VII, on the banks of the River Thames in Surrey. It stood on the site of an old royal palace called Sheen, which was virtually destroyed by fire in 1497, and it was named after the King (who was known as The Earl of Richmond before he won the throne from King Richard III in the Battle of ...
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Richmond Palace was built on the site of the old royal residence of Sheen (named from the Old English word for a 'beauty spot') in Surrey along the banks of the Thames.
Just off Richmond Green, the attractive remains of Richmond Palace – the main entrance and red-brick gatehouse – date to 1501. Henry VII’s arms are visible above the main gate: the monarch built the Tudor additions to the edifice, although the palace had been in use as a royal residence since 1125.
A View of Richmond Palace, copper-engraving published in 1765 from a drawing of the 17th century Places in History is an ongoing project. It uses placemarks in Google Maps to identify the exact position of a building, street or other feature, with a satellite view of the location.
