Nonsuch Palace: Henry VIII's Lost Wonder

I want to look at the extant information we have available to us now, in the hope that we might be able, at least partially, to get an idea of the appearance and history this now lost palace of Nonsuch...

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

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Nonsuch Palace by Georg Hoefnagel (c.1568). From https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12...

Photograph of the Château de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher departament, France, taken by Arnaud Scherer (2015)

Detail from John Speed - 1610 - Map of Surrey (including Nonsuch Palace).

Detail of one of the Lumley family monuments in the Lumley Chapel, Cheam, Sutton, south London (formerly Surrey). Photogrpahed by John Salmon (2005).

The floorplan of Nonsuch Palace from Pevsner's Buildings of Surrey, 1971.

Portrait of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist (1560s). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Plan of Nonsuch Palace, Surrey (cf. Biddle, figure io on page I63 in this issue), from John Dent, The Quest for Nonsuch (London: Hutchinson, I970). The symmetry is obvious in the design of Nonsuch and Holdenby (Figure 4). Drawing: author after Martin Biddle.

Portrait of Anne of Denmark by Paul van Somer (c.1617). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1633). Held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Portrait of Charles II of England in Coronation robes by John Michael Wright (c.1671-76). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Portrait of Barbara Palmer, née Villiers, Lady Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland by Peter Lely (17th century). Held by the Schorr Collection.

Quoted texts:

Martin Biddle article, “The Stuccoes of Nonsuch” (1984).

Simon Thurley, “Henry VIII and the Building of Hampton Court: A Reconstruction of the Tudor Palace” (1988)

Anthony Watson “A Brief and True Description of the Splendid and Most Royal House that is Commonly Called Nonsuch” from p.84 at https://eehe.org.uk/wp-content/upload...

H. J. Louw, “Some Royal and Other Great Houses in England: Extracts from the Journal of Abram Booth.” (1984)



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Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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