Kew Palace

British royal palace within Kew Gardens

Kew Palace

The Dutch House, one of the few surviving parts of the Kew Palace complex

Type| Palace
Location| Kew Gardens
Coordinates| 51°29′02″N 00°17′42″W﻿ / ﻿51.48389°N 0.29500°W﻿ / 51.48389; -0.29500
OS grid reference| TQ 18482 77474
Area| London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Built| 1631
Architectural style(s)| Artisan Mannerist
Governing body| Historic Royal Palaces

Listed Building – Grade I

Official name| Kew Palace
Designated| 10 January 1950
Reference no.| 1263073

Location of Kew Palace in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Kew Palace is a British royal palace within the grounds of Kew Gardens on the banks of the River Thames. Originally a large complex, few elements of it survive. Dating to 1631 but built atop the undercroft of an earlier building, the main survivor is known as the Dutch House. Its royal occupation lasted from around 1728 until 1818, with a final short-lived occupation in 1844. The Dutch House is Grade I listed,[1] and open to visitors. It is cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, which receives no funding from the government or the Crown.[2] Alongside the Dutch House is a part of its 18th-century service wing, whilst nearby are a former housekeeper's cottage, brewhouse and kitchen block – most of these buildings are private, though the kitchens are open to the public. These kitchens, the Great Pagoda and Queen Charlotte's Cottage are also run by Historic Royal Palaces.

## History

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### Fortreys and Capels

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Beneath the Dutch House is the undercroft of a 16th-century building. This was on land owned by John Dudley and restored to his son Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, childhood friend and court favourite of Elizabeth I, in 1558. It belonged to a west-facing brick building and may be identifiable with a house in Kew in which Robert Dudley entertained Elizabeth in 1563 – one of Elizabeth's main palaces at that time was the nearby Richmond Palace.[3]

In 1619, the building above the undercroft was leased by Samuel Fortrey, who finally demolished all but the undercroft in 1631, erecting a new larger south-facing manor house in its place. The father of the author Samuel Fortrey, Samuel Fortrey senior was a merchant descended from a family originating near Lille, though later confusion over his ancestry led to the building becoming known as the Dutch House. That name also originated in the house's supposedly Dutch style of architecture, known as Artisan Mannerist and dominated by Dutch gables[4] – this style was actually more prevalent in London, East Anglia and East Kent than the Netherlands at the time.[5] In 1697, Fortrey's descendants leased the building to Sir Richard Levett, a powerful merchant and the former Lord Mayor of London, who later left it to his daughter Mary.[4][6][7]

### Kew House

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Facing the 1631 house was another mansion, possibly of Tudor origin.[8] It was often visited by the diarist John Evelyn and passed from Richard Bennett to his daughter Dorothy, wife of Henry Capel. Dorothy and Henry remained childless and so the house then passed to Dorothy's great-niece Elizabeth, wife of the Prince of Wales's secretary, Samuel Molyneux, and then to Molyneux's physician Nathaniel St André.[9] This mansion, which was eventually pulled down in 1802,[8] was also the site of James Bradley's observations in 1725 that led to his discovery of the aberration of light. William IV marked the site of the observations with a Thomas Tompion sundial in 1832, transferred from Hampton Court Palace to a plinth to the Dutch House's south-east. This was replaced with a replica in 1959 and moved to its new and different site directly to the south of the Dutch House.[10][11]

### George II's children

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Frederick's new kitchens at Kew The south front of the White House after Frederick's remodelling, from John Rocque's map of Richmond Gardens, 1734[12] The National Portrait Gallery version of the musical portrait

In 1727, Queen Caroline and George II came to the British throne. By that time they had six children living with them at their summer residence at Richmond Lodge. In 1728 Caroline leased the Dutch House to house her three eldest daughters Anne, Amelia and Caroline and another nearby building which became known as the 'Queen's House', though the intended occupant may have been her son William rather than the queen herself.[13] This left Caroline's two youngest daughters Mary and Louise with her at Richmond Lodge.

George and Caroline had come to Britain in 1714 when George's father took the throne as George I, leaving their eldest son Frederick behind in Hanover aged 7. When George II succeeded his father, Frederick became Prince of Wales and so was finally allowed to come to Britain. He arrived in December 1728, less than a year after his mother had taken the lease on the Dutch House. Now aged 21, knowing little of his sisters and possibly wishing for a family rapprochement, he soon took a long lease on the old Capel House at Kew and in 1731 also purchased its contents from St André. Frederick then set about remodeling it with assistance from William Kent – it then became known as the White House due to its plastered exterior. Frederick also added a large new separate kitchen block, open to the public since 2012 as 'the Royal Kitchens'.[14][15] There was also a stable block of an unknown date serving the White House, located a short distance to its north-east and demolished in the late 19th century.

An oil-on-canvas musical portrait from 1733 shows Frederick and his three eldest sisters playing mandolin, harpsichord and cello. It was painted by his librarian and art agent Philip Mercier and exists in three variants, two of which show the Dutch House in the background (National Portrait Gallery[16] and National Trust[17]) – the third variant in the Royal Collection shows the same group in an interior, possibly Kensington Palace.[18] Anne married and left England the year after the portrait was painted and Caroline left Kew in 1743, retiring to St James's Palace, where she died in 1757.

Along with Cliveden, the White House became Frederick's main family country home, where he entertained poets such as James Thomson (author of The Seasons) and Alexander Pope (who had moved into the area in 1719 and built his eponymous villa at Twickenham). In 1738 Pope gave Prince Frederick a dog, with the following verse inscribed on its collar:

I am His Highness' dog at Kew.
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?[19]

### Augusta and George III

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The White House in the background of The Family of Frederick, Prince of Wales, a 1751 group portrait of Frederick's widow and children by George Knapton.

Frederick began remodelling the gardens associated with the White House, but "after staying all day in the garden till night, in the damp rain and hail to look at his workmen" in 1751 he caught a chill which – combined with a pulmonary embolism – proved fatal.[20][21] His widow Augusta continued living at the White House with their children and remodelling the gardens. She was advised by her husband's friend John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and assisted by Sir William Chambers, one of the greatest masters of ornamental English gardening.

Frederick's sister Amelia was probably still in the Dutch House throughout the 1730s and 1740s, but seems to have moved out in 1751 when she was made ranger of Richmond Park, which came with a residence at White Lodge. This meant the Dutch House could become a schoolhouse for Augusta's two eldest sons, George (the future George III) and Edward, where they were taught by Bute and Chambers. In 1760 George took the throne, and a year later he married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, moving into Richmond Lodge as his summer residence as his family grew – he and Charlotte had fifteen children between 1762 and 1783.

An engraving after a 1771–72 watercolour by Paul Sandby,[22] showing a view of the Dutch House from the riverside and Lady Charlotte Finch with some of the royal children

Chambers built the Orangery and Great Pagoda at Kew for Augusta in 1761–62 but later in that decade she mainly lived at Carlton House. However, Augusta nominally retained the Dutch House and White House until her death in 1772, when they passed to George, who demolished Richmond Lodge and switched his summer residence to the White House. He also used the latter building to house some of his art collection, including a number of Canaletto's works and The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Zoffany, who lived nearby and is buried at St Anne's Church.

George continued the Dutch House's use as a schoolhouse, now for his two eldest sons George and Frederick. This led to it being known as 'the Prince of Wales's House' or 'the House Late the Prince of Wales's', though the future George IV never lived in it after his childhood. Small households of royal children were lodged in houses on Kew Green and the royal governess Lady Charlotte Finch also lived locally – in a watercolour of c. 1771–72 she is shown in the grounds of the Dutch House with some of the children.

An 1897 photograph of the palace showing (left) the remnants of the service wing in which George III was housed in 1804 and (right) the original site of the Tompion sundial

A map of 1771 delineated the land between the Dutch House and the river as still belonging to barrister Levett Blackborne, Lincoln's Inn barrister and grandson of Sir Richard Levett.[23] This reflects the fact that the buildings and grounds were only leased by the royal family right up until 13 October 1781, when George III purchased the freehold from the Levetts for £20,000.[24][25] Seven years later, George was kept in the White House during his first bout of 'madness' from November 1788 to March 1789, with his wife Charlotte and their daughters living on the upper floors and the Grooms of the Bedchamber in the Dutch House. The White House was then allowed to fall into disrepair, though it still proved possible to house him there during the second bout in 1801, whilst Charlotte and her daughters moved into the Dutch House to await news of George's recovery. The White House was finally demolished in 1802 and so on the onset of the third bout of 'madness' in 1804 George was housed in an upgraded single-storey service wing of the Dutch House and possibly also on the ground floor of the Dutch House, with Charlotte and the princesses on the Dutch House's first and second floors. (That service wing was mainly demolished in 1881 but originally connected directly onto the west side of the Dutch House.)

### Disuse and decline

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A drawing of New Kew Palace, by William Westall, 1823

Another reason for the demolition of the White House and the decreasing use of the Dutch House was the Castellated Palace, whose planning and design began around 1800. George's chosen architect was James Wyatt, whom he had taken on for works at Windsor Castle at around the same time. The building also became known as the New Palace or New Kew Palace and so the Dutch House was often known as the Old Palace or the Old Red House between 1800 and 1828.

George created a site for the Castellated Palace by demolishing the old Queen's House and construction began around 1802. Known by some historians as "a late Georgian Nonsuch",[4] it was in the neo-Gothic style. George was a late convert to this style – he wrote to his daughter Charlotte in 1803 stating:

> I never thought I should have adopted Gothic instead of Grecian architecture, but the bad taste of the last forty years has so entirely corrupted the professors of the latter I have taken to the former from thinking Wyatt perfect in that style, of which my house will I trust be a good example.[26]

He had possibly been influenced by nearby Strawberry Hill House, by his earlier work on Windsor Castle and by his visits to Hartlebury Castle and Worcester Cathedral in 1788 and to Lulworth Castle and Sherborne Castle in 1789.[27] Though Wyatt led the design, contributions were probably made by the king himself, who had been trained in architectural drawing as a boy at Kew by William Chambers. This royal involvement and interference may have contributed to repeated delays and overspend in construction thanks to his 1801 and 1804 illnesses. The new palace was widely criticised – in his 1817 "A Morning's Walk from London to Kew", Sir Richard Phillips nicknamed it "the Bastile palace, from its resemblance to that building, so obnoxious to freedom and freemen." He continued:

> On a former occasion I have viewed its interior, and I am at a loss to conceive the motive for preferring an external form, which rendered it impracticable to construct within it more than a series of large closets, boudoirs, and rooms like oratories.

John Bew also included the Castellated Palace in his tourists' guide of 1820:

> [T]his Anglo-Teutonic, castellated, gothized structure, (which has never been completed, and probably never will be) must be considered as an abortive production, at once illustrative of bad taste and defective judgment. From the small size of the windows and the diminutive proportion of its turrets, it would seem to possess "Windows that exclude the light,/ And passages that lead to nothing."[28] The northern front was intended to be appropriated to the use of domestics; the whole building is rendered nearly indestructible by fire, by means of cast-iron joists and rafters, &c. The principal part is brick, stuccoed to resemble stone.[29]

The Castellated Palace (1827 woodcut) The Dutch House in 1835, showing Queen Charlotte's funeral hatchment hanging from its façade; this is now on show in the building.

The king stopped off at the Dutch House in August 1805 to meet with his daughter-in-law Caroline and his granddaughter Charlotte. His family moved back into the Dutch House in October that year until renovation work at the princesses' rooms in Windsor was complete. George made a final visit to Kew in 1806 to view works on the Castellated Palace and never returned, though the Dutch House was refitted in 1809 for his youngest daughter Princess Amelia, who had expressed a wish to move into it to convalesce from her tuberculosis. However, her parents vetoed this and she remained at Windsor, where her death in 1810 probably triggered the king's final bout of 'madness'.[30]

This fourth and final bout of 'madness' also meant that work on the Castellated Palace ceased for good, leaving only a mostly roofed shell. This bout lasted ten years, all of which time he was confined at Windsor rather than Kew. In 1818, Queen Charlotte set out from London to Windsor to see the king and to attend the double wedding of her sons William and Edward. En route she decided to spend a few days at the Dutch House, but since she was ill with dropsy she was unable to continue her journey and so the weddings took place in the drawing room there on 11 July 1818. Later that year, on 17 November, Charlotte died in her bedroom on the first floor of the building.

George died at Windsor in 1820 and his eldest son and successor George IV decided to demolish the Castellated Palace. After studying the project's accounts (its total costs had risen to £500,000 by 1811 (equivalent to £45.8 million in 2023 pounds),[31] as opposed to the initial allocation of £40,000 in 1800 (equivalent to £4.08 million in 2023 pounds)),[31][32] Parliament approved that decision and ordered that the few fixtures and fittings which had already installed in the Castellated Palace be removed and sent to other royal residences[4] – its staircase was later used at Buckingham Palace.[4] The year before the demolition, an article stated:

> Innumerable are the instances of princes having sought to perpetuate their memories by the building of palaces, from the Domus Aurea, or golden house of Nero, to the comparatively puny structures of our own times. As specimens of modern magnificence and substantial comfort, the latter class of edifices may be admirable; but we are bound to acknowledge, that in boldness and splendour of design, they cannot assimilate to the labours of antiquity, much of whose stupendous character is to this day preserved in many series of interesting ruins:—

>     Whilst in the progress of the long decay,
>     Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.[33]

> As a record of this degeneracy, near the western corner of Kew Green stands the [Castellated Palace] ... [its] north front possesses an air of solemn, sullen grandeur; but it very ill accords with the taste and science generally displayed by its nominal architect [George III].

> ... [Its foundations are] in a bog close to the Thames, and the principal object in its view is the dirty town of Brentford, on the opposite side of the river; a selection, it would seem, of family taste, for [George III's grandfather] George II is known to have often said, when riding through Brentford, "I do like this place, it's so like Yarmany [ie Germany]."

> The premature fate of [the new] Kew Palace renders it at this moment an object of public curiosity[34][35]

### Opened to the public

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Proposals for an extension to Kew Palace by Jeffry Wyatville for William IV, 1829 Rear view of Kew Palace from its gardens

George IV also planned to demolish the Dutch House, but this did not come to fruition. Possibly influenced by having been married there in 1818, his brother William IV commissioned plans for adding a west wing to it and bringing it back into use, but this too did not come about. William did offer the Dutch House to his sister-in-law Victoria, Duchess of Kent for her and her daughter (the future Queen Victoria), but she turned it down as "an old house quite unfit for the princess and me to occupy, being very inadequate in accommodation and almost destitute of furniture".[36] Queen Victoria briefly sent three of her own children there in summer 1844, but the following year she and Prince Albert began remodelling Osborne House on the Isle of Wight as their summer residence. The Dutch House thus remained unoccupied until 1898, when she transferred it and Queen Charlotte's Cottage to Kew Gardens to mark her Diamond Jubilee. By this time the palace's stables and most of the Dutch House's service wing had been demolished, probably in 1881. A replica 17th-century Dutch garden was added to the house's rear in 1969.

The Dutch House remained open to the public until 1996, when a major restoration project commenced. This not only included physical restoration to the building, but also weaving of period draperies and other fabric décor carried out by master weaver Ian Dale of Scotland. An external lift shaft was added on the west wing for disabled access, in the place of a privy shaft which had been demolished in the 1880s. The building was used to hold a dinner hosted by Charles, Prince of Wales to celebrate the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on 21 April 2006 – a few days later it reopened as a visitor attraction. The Palace was featured in the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tales from the Palaces. It is run by Historic Royal Palaces, which has also taken on responsibility for the Royal Kitchens (reopening them to the public in 2012)[37] and the Pagoda (re-opened to the public in 2018).[38]

## References

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1. ^ Historic England. "Kew Palace (1263073)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
2. ^ "Who We Are". Historic Royal Palaces. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
3. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, pp. 15–17
4. ^ a b c d e Williams, Neville (2006). Royal Homes. London: Lutterworth Press. p. 107\. ISBN 0-7188-0803-7.
5. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, pp. 19–26
6. ^ Sir Richard Levett in Noble, Mark; Granger, James (1806). A Biographical History of England. W. Richardson. p. 4. "a biographical history of england mark noble levet."
7. ^ Sir Richard Levett in Le Neve, Peter (1873). Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights Made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William Alone, and Queen Anne. Harleian Society. p. 337. "le neve knights john holt."
8. ^ a b "Parishes: Kew" (1911), in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H. E. Malden. London: Victoria County History, pp. 482–487. British History Online. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
9. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, p. 26
10. ^ "Kew Gardens Sundial". Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
11. ^ "Thomas Tompion (1639–1713) – Sundial circa 1699". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
12. ^ J Rocque, Plan of the house, gardens, park and hermitage of their majesties at Richmond, 1734 – Royal Collection
13. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, pp. 40–41
14. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, pp. 41–52
15. ^ Moonan, Wendy (2 July 2004). "Antiques: A Regal Dollhouse Fit for a Princess". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
16. ^ "Philip Mercier (1691–1760), Portrait painter". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 21 April 2007.
17. ^ "Mercier, The Music Party, 1733". National Trust. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016.
18. ^ "Mercier, The Music Party, 1733". Royal Collection.
19. ^ Hastings, Max (15 December 2003). "Poetic dog licence". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
20. ^ "Frederick, Prince of Wales". The Georgians – The German Kings Who Made Britain. BBC Four. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
21. ^ Natalie Livingstone, The Mistresses of Cliveden (Random House, 2015), chapter 6
22. ^ Paul Sandby, A view of the Prince's House at Kew, c.1771–72 – Royal Collection
23. ^ Levett Blackborne, Kew, British History Online
24. ^ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Historical and Descriptive, William Jackson Bean, 1908
25. ^ The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey and Kent, W. Paley Baildon (ed.), Vol. X, Reynell & Son, London, 1908
26. ^ Mandler, Paul (1999). The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home. Yale University Press. p. 15\. ISBN 0300078692.
27. ^ Watkin, David (2004). The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment. Royal Collection Publications. pp. 136–145.
28. ^ A quotation from A Long Story by Thomas Gray
29. ^ John Bew, The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London, 1820, page 194
30. ^ Groom & Prosser 2006, p. 99
31. ^ a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
32. ^ Desmond 1995, p. 81
33. ^ George Howard, The Ruins of Paestum, 1824, quoted in Madden (1855). The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington. Cambridge University Press. p. 105\. ISBN 9781108048316.
34. ^ The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, Volume 10, Issue 275 (29 September 1827), pages 209–210
35. ^ The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 275, 29 September 1827, by Various
36. ^ Desmond 1995, pp. 136–137
37. ^ HRP Press Release – 'Royal Kitchens at Kew uncovered for first time in 200 years.'
38. ^ HRP Press Release – 'Dragons to return to The Great Pagoda at Kew after 200 year hunt.'

## Sources

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* Desmond, Ray (1995). Kew: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: Harvill. ISBN 978-1-86046-076-0.
* Groom, Susanne; Prosser, Lee (2006). Kew Palace: The Official Illustrated History. Merrell Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85894-323-7.

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* East Sheen Filling Station
* Fulwell bus garage
* Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
* Garrick's Villa
* Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens
* Grove Gardens Chapel
* Grove House, Hampton
* Halford House
* Ham House
* Hampton Water Treatment Works
* Hampton Youth Project
* Harrods Furniture Depository
* Hogarth House
* The Homestead
* Hotham House
* Kew Gardens
* Kew Mortuary
* King's Observatory
* Kneller Hall
* Langham House
* Langham House Close
* Latchmere House
* Lichfield Court
* Marble Hill House
* Montrose House
* National Physical Laboratory
* Normansfield Theatre
* The Old Court House
* Old Town Hall, Richmond
* Ormeley Lodge
* Parkleys
* Park Lane Stables Teddington
* The Pavilion
* Pembroke Lodge
* Pope's Grotto
* Poppy Factory
* Royal Military School of Music
* Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond
* St Leonard's Court
* Strawberry Hill House
* Stud House
* Sudbrook House and Park
* Thatched House Lodge
* Trumpeters' House
* University Boat Race Stones
* Victoria Working Men's Club
* West Hall
* White Lodge
* The Wick
* Wick House
* Yelverton Lodge
* York House
* former Admiralty Research Laboratory
* former Alcott House
* former Camp Griffiss
* former Cardigan House
* former Cross Deep House
* former The Karsino
* former Mortlake Tapestry Works
* former Mount Ararat
* former Pope's villa
* former Radnor House
* former Richmond House
* former Richmond Lodge
* former Richmond Theological College
* former Sheen Priory
* former Star and Garter Hotel
* former Twickenham Park

Tragedy and disaster|

* Barnes child murder
* Barnes rail crash
* Ham bank murder
* Murder of Amélie Delagrange
* Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
* Richmond child murder
* Towpath murders

Other history topics|

* Adana Printing Machines
* Ashe baronets
* Cook baronets of Doughty House
* Darell baronets, of Richmond Hill
* GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom)
* Hampton Court Conference (1604)
* Kew Letters (1795)
* Petersham Hole
* Pocock baronets
* Richmond Flyers
* Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902
* Treaty of Hampton Court (1562)
* Vandeput baronets
* Warren-Lambert Engineering
* Wigan baronets

Parliamentary constituencies|

* Richmond Park
* Twickenham
* former Richmond and Barnes
* former Richmond (Surrey)

Other topics|

* Almshouses
* Archives, museums and art galleries
* Cemeteries, crematoria and memorials
* Churches
* Synagogue
* Grade I listed buildings
* Grade II* listed buildings
* Hospitals
* Local government
* Local council elections
* People
* Schools, colleges and universities
* Sports clubs

Parks, open spaces and nature reserves in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Locations|

* Kew Gardens
* Wakehurst Place
* Bedgebury National Pinetum

Buildings|

* Kew Herbarium
* Kew Palace
* Temperate House
* Palm House
* Great Pagoda
* Queen Charlotte's Cottage

History|

* Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Botany|

* Index Kewensis
* International Plant Names Index
* The Plant List
* Plants of the World Online
* World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
* GrassBase
* World Flora Online
* Index Fungorum

Other|

* The Great Plant Hunt
* Kew Bulletin
* Kew Constabulary
* Kew Gardens (short story)
* Kew Rule
* Kingdom of Plants 3D
* Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
* UK Native Seed Hub
* The Queen's Beasts
* Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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London landmarks

Buildings and
structures|

| Bridges|

* Albert Bridge
* Battersea Bridge
* Blackfriars Bridge
* Chelsea Bridge
* Hammersmith Bridge
* Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges
* Lambeth Bridge
* London Bridge
* Millennium Bridge
* Putney Bridge
* Richmond Bridge
* Southwark Bridge
* Tower Bridge
* Vauxhall Bridge
* Waterloo Bridge
* Westminster Bridge

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Entertainment
venues|

| Cinemas|

* BFI IMAX
* Empire, Leicester Square
* Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

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Football stadia|

* Wembley Stadium (national stadium)
* Brentford Community Stadium (Brentford)
* Brisbane Road (Leyton Orient)
* Craven Cottage (Fulham)
* The Den (Millwall)
* Emirates Stadium (Arsenal)
* Loftus Road (Queens Park Rangers)
* London Stadium (West Ham United)
* Plough Lane (AFC Wimbledon)
* Selhurst Park (Crystal Palace)
* Stamford Bridge (Chelsea)
* The Valley (Charlton Athletic)
* Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Tottenham Hotspur)

Other major
sports venues|

* All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
* The Championship Course (rowing)
* Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
* Lord's (cricket)
* Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
* The Oval (cricket)
* Twickenham Stadium (rugby)

Theatres|

* Adelphi
* Apollo Victoria
* Coliseum
* Criterion
* Dominion
* Lyceum
* Old Vic
* Palladium
* Royal National Theatre
* Royal Opera House
* Shakespeare's Globe
* Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
* Theatre Royal Haymarket
* Vaudeville

Other|

* Alexandra Palace
* Brixton Academy
* ExCeL
* Hammersmith Apollo
* The O2 Arena
* Royal Albert Hall
* Royal Festival Hall
* Wembley Arena

Government|

* 10 Downing Street
* Admiralty Arch
* Bank of England
* City Hall (Southwark)
* City Hall (Newham)
* County Hall
* Guildhall
* Horse Guards
* Mansion House
* The National Archives
* Old Bailey
* Palace of Westminster
* Royal Courts of Justice
* Scotland Yard
* SIS Building
* Thames House

Museums and
galleries|

* British Museum
* Churchill War Rooms
* Courtauld Gallery
* Cutty Sark
* Golden Hinde
* Guildhall Art Gallery
* HMS Belfast
* Imperial War Museum
* Madame Tussauds
* Museum of London
* National Gallery
* National Maritime Museum
* National Portrait Gallery
* Natural History Museum
* Royal Academy of Arts
* Royal Observatory
* Science Museum
* Tate Britain
* Tate Modern
* Tower of London
* Victoria and Albert Museum
* Wallace Collection
* Young V&A

Places of worship|

* All Hallows-by-the-Tower
* BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
* Bevis Marks Synagogue
* Methodist Central Hall
* Regent's Park Mosque
* St Clement Danes
* St Margaret's, Westminster
* St Martin-in-the-Fields
* St Mary-le-Bow
* St Paul's Cathedral
* Southwark Cathedral
* Westminster Abbey
* Westminster Cathedral

Retailing|

| Shops|

* Fortnum & Mason
* Hamleys
* Harrods
* Harvey Nichols
* Hatchards
* Liberty
* Peter Jones
* Selfridges

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Shopping centres
and markets|

* Borough Market
* Brent Cross
* Burlington Arcade
* Camden Market
* Kensington Arcade
* Leadenhall Market
* One New Change
* Petticoat Lane Market
* Royal Exchange
* Westfield London
* Westfield Stratford City

Royal buildings|

| Partly occupied by
the royal family|

* Buckingham Palace
* Clarence House
* Kensington Palace
* St James's Palace

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Unoccupied|

* Banqueting House
* Hampton Court Palace
* Kew Palace
* The Queen's Gallery
* Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace

Skyscrapers|

* One Canada Square
* One Churchill Place
* 8 Canada Square
* 20 Fenchurch Street
* 122 Leadenhall Street
* Broadgate Tower
* Citigroup Centre (London)
* The Gherkin
* Heron Tower
* The Shard
* St George Wharf Tower
* Tower 42

Structures|

* Albert Memorial
* ArcelorMittal Orbit
* Big Ben
* The Cenotaph
* Cleopatra's Needle
* Crystal Palace transmitting station
* London Eye
* London Wall
* Marble Arch
* Monument to the Great Fire of London
* Nelson's Column
* Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain ("Eros")
* Thames Barrier
* Wellington Arch

Transport|

* City Airport
* Heathrow Airport
* Blackfriars station
* Cannon Street station
* Charing Cross station
* Clapham Junction station
* Euston station
* Fenchurch Street station
* King's Cross station
* Liverpool Street station
* London Bridge station
* Paddington station
* St Pancras station
* Stratford station
* Victoria station
* Waterloo station
* London Cable Car
* Victoria Coach Station

Other|

* Barbican Estate
* Battersea Power Station
* British Library
* BT Tower
* Kew Gardens
* Lambeth Palace
* Lloyd's building
* London Zoo
* Oxo Tower
* Smithfield Market
* Somerset House
* St Bartholomew's Hospital

Parks|

| Royal Parks|

* Bushy Park
* Green Park
* Greenwich Park
* Hampton Court Park
* Hyde Park
* Kensington Gardens
* Regent's Park
* Richmond Park
* St James's Park

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Other|

* Battersea Park
* Burgess Park
* Clapham Common
* College Green
* Epping Forest
* Finsbury Park
* Gunnersbury Park
* Hampstead Heath
* Holland Park
* Kew Gardens
* Mitcham Common
* Osterley Park
* Trent Park
* Victoria Park
* Wandsworth Common
* Wimbledon Common

Squares and
public spaces|

* Covent Garden
* Horse Guards Parade
* Leicester Square
* Parliament Square
* Piccadilly Circus
* Sloane Square
* Trafalgar Square

Streets|

* Aldwych
* Baker Street
* Bishopsgate
* Bond Street
* Carnaby Street
* Charing Cross Road
* Cheapside
* Cornhill
* Denmark Street
* Fenchurch Street
* Fleet Street
* Haymarket
* Jermyn Street
* Kensington High Street
* King's Road
* Lombard Street
* The Mall
* Myrtle Avenue, Hounslow
* Oxford Street
* Park Lane
* Piccadilly
* Portobello Road
* Regent Street
* Shaftesbury Avenue
* Sloane Street
* Strand
* Tottenham Court Road
* Victoria Embankment
* Whitehall

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany

Other|

* IdRef

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