Research Catalog

Greenwich : an architectural history of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen's House

Title
  1. Greenwich : an architectural history of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen's House / John Bold ; with contributions by Peter Guillery [and others] ; architectural graphics by Andrew Donald ; photographs by Derek Kendall.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, in association with English Heritage, ©2000.
Author
  1. Bold, John.

Items in the library and off-site

Filter by

Displaying 1 item

StatusFormatAccessCall numberItem location
Status
Request scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
FormatTextAccessUse in libraryCall numberDA690.G83 B65 2000q OversizeItem locationOff-site

Details

Description
  1. vii, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 32 cm
Summary
  1. "The former Royal Hospital for Seamen, the Queen's House, and Greenwich Park - one of the most highly prized ensembles in European architecture and landscape - today comprise the centrepiece of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. This illustrated book, based on detailed documentary work and site survey by the Royal Commission of the Historical Monuments of England, is the first to present a thorough architectural and art historical account of the main surviving buildings on the site. New photographs of the buildings complement famous views painted by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artists, and specially commissioned development drawings illustrate and clarify the often complex evolution of the buildings, which have not until now been well understood.
  2. In addition, an archaeological analysis illuminates the discussion of centuries of human alterations to this much-loved landscape."
  3. "The book details the evolution of the main buildings of the Hospital (later the Royal Naval College and now the University of Greenwich), from the design and building stages overseen by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor, through the later contributions of Thomas Ripley, James Stuart, Benjamin West, and Joseph Kay. In a comprehensive discussion in Inigo Jones's Queen's House, the book considers not only the architect and the sumptuous interior decoration, but also the desires of patrons Queen Anne of Denmark and Queen Henrietta Maria.
  4. Descriptions of the later history of all the buildings on the site, the founding of the National Maritime Museum, and the creation of the buildings in the Park brings the history of this important location to the present day."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Architecture > England > London
  2. Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
  3. Greenwich (London, England) > Queen's House
  4. Greenwich (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Contents
  1. 1. Greenwich Park: Landscape and Buildings -- 2. The Queen's House: Building and Function -- 3. The Queen's House: Decoration and Later History -- 4. The Royal Hospital for Seamen: A Benevolent Foundation -- 5. The Royal Hospital for Seamen: Building an Institution -- 6. The Royal Hospital for Seamen: Uses, Abuses, Improvements and Departures -- 7. The Buildings of the Seamen's Hospital Society -- 8. Buildings for Education.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and index.