The Old Royal Naval College - (University of Greenwich) The Old Royal Naval College is the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich and a World Heritage Site and reckoned to be the "finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles". The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, which was designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712. This was originally the site of the Palace of Placentia, more commonly known as Greenwich Palace, the birthplace of Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I and reputedly the favourite palace of Henry VIII. The palace had fallen into disrepair during the English Civil War. After conversion to a training establishment for the Royal Navy in 1873, it wasn’t until 1998 that the site was passed onto the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, Since then the site has had new life breathed into it and a revival of the historic old site. The site is regularly used for filming television programmes, advertisements and feature films. Such productions include: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Avengers (1998), The Mummy Returns (2001), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Eastern Promises, Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Les Miserables (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013).
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