Snow-covered courtyard of the Queen Mary's Block, Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich.
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John Gaffen 2 / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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3341 x 5073 px | 28.3 x 43 cm | 11.1 x 16.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
13 January 2010Location:
University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LSMore information:
Snow-covered courtyard of the Queen Mary's Block, Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. by Christopher Wren and others (1699 onwards). The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich London, described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as being of “outstanding universal value” and reckoned to be the “finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles”. The site is managed by the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College (Foundation), set up in July 1998 as a Registered Charity to “look after these magnificent buildings and their grounds for the benefit of the nation”. The grounds and some of its buildings are open to visitors. The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Greenwich Hospital, designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712. The hospital closed in 1869. Between 1873 and 1998 it was the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The site is regularly used for filming television programmes, television advertisements, and feature films. Since 1998 the site has had new life breathed into it through a remarkable mix of new uses and activities, a sensitive but highly successful revival of the historic old site under the careful management and control of the Greenwich Foundation: The buildings are Grade I listed. In 1999 some parts of Queen Mary and King William and the whole of Queen Anne and the Dreadnought Building were leased for 150 years by the University of Greenwich. In 2000 Trinity College of Music leased the major part of King Charles. This created a unique new educational and cultural mix