Main entry:

Thurley, Simon, 1962-

Title & Author:

Whitehall Palace : an architectural history of the royal apartments, 1240-1698 / Simon Thurley.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.

Description:

xv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
One folded plate pasted to p. 3 of cover.
Map tipped in at p. [3] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-179) and index.
Introduction. The documentary evidence ; Circumstances of excavation ; The excavation archive and post-excavation work ; Methodology -- York Place and its predecessors to 1500 -- York Place and Thomas Wolsey to 1530 -- From York Place to Whitehall Palace : Henry VIII, 1530-1547 -- Elizabethan Whitehall, 1558-1603 -- Whitehall under James I, 1603-1625 -- Charles I and the interregnum, 1625-1660 -- Restoration Whitehall -- Whitehall, the last years : James II, William III and Mary II, 1685-1698.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Simon Thurley traces the development of the Palace from its origins, using previously unpublished archaeological evidence to establish that York Place, as it was then called, was already one of the largest and most important residences in London before it became a royal palace. Thurley reconstructs the various phases of the Palace's development, showing how successive kings and queens altered the vast, sprawling mass of Whitehall to meet their individual needs. He also charts the plans of monarchs to replace the Tudor building with one that might have rivalled the great Baroque palaces of Europe, and he reveals the reasons they failed to achieve this"-- Jacket.

ISBN:

0300076398 (cloth)
9780300076394 (cloth)

Subject:

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652
Whitehall Palace (London, England)
Banqueting House (London, England)
Whitehall Palace (Londres, Angleterre)
Excavations (Archaeology) England London.
Architecture and archaeology England.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Angleterre Londres.
Architecture et archéologie Angleterre.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Architecture and archaeology.
Buildings.
Architektur
Ausgrabung
Geschichte
Whitehall Palace.
Opgravingen.
Reconstructies.
Geschichte 1240-1690.
Geschichte 1240-1698.
Historic buildings England London.
Palaces England London.
Historic sites England London.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
Londres (Angleterre) Constructions.
England.
England London.
London Whitehall Palace.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207336
Call No.: NA7746.L628 T4 1999
Status: Available