The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t of forming a grand approach, not merely to theLion Gates and the Wilderness, which now close its vista, butalso to a new and stately Entrance Court, which in size andsplendour would have been adequate to the importance of thePalace, and in keeping with the magnificence of WrensQuadrangle. The plan for these improvements, which ispreserved in the Office of Her Majestys Works, shows that,it was intended to have carried a road straight throughthe Wilderness and across the old moat, to lead up tothe new court, 300 feet long by 230 feet broad,
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t of forming a grand approach, not merely to theLion Gates and the Wilderness, which now close its vista, butalso to a new and stately Entrance Court, which in size andsplendour would have been adequate to the importance of thePalace, and in keeping with the magnificence of WrensQuadrangle. The plan for these improvements, which ispreserved in the Office of Her Majestys Works, shows that,it was intended to have carried a road straight throughthe Wilderness and across the old moat, to lead up tothe new court, 300 feet long by 230 feet broad, whichwould have occupied the ground now called the old MelonGround ^ and the intervening space up to the GreatHall. The Court Yard, as the annexed facsimile of theplan shows, was to be enclosed on the east and west sidesby buildings, doubtless the same in style as the rest of thenew Palace ; the north side, towards the avenue, was to beopen ; and on the south side there were to be, besides other ^ See Appendix B. ^ At present leased to Mr. 1699] Proposed New Grand North Entrance, 81 architectural features, a colonnade and several great flightsof steps. These were to lead up to the Great Hall, whichwas to be entered in the centre of its north side, and was tobe the vestibule of the Palace, whence access was to beobtained, through a series of fine spacious new chambers, tothe suite already constructed. That this plan was in view when the Chestnut Avenuewas planted, is evident both from the old plans in HerMajestys Office of Works, in the Library of All SoulsCollege, and in Sir John Soanes Museum, and also from thefact that the central line of the Avenue, when prolonged,intersects the north wall of the Hall exactly in the middle. The execution of the design would, of course, have in-volved the destruction of much of the older buildings, which,under the circumstances, fortunately remain to us, such asthe old kitchens and the Tudor cloisters. Had it not beenfor this, we sh
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