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Nonsuch Palace
/ ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ /
noun
- a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
Example Sentences
The painting by Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel is said to be the earliest depiction of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace in Surrey.
Nonsuch Palace was painted by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel in 1568.
Nonsuch Palace - named because no other palace could equal it - was built in 1538 for the Tudor king to celebrate the birth of his first legitimate son and mark his 30th year on the throne,
The pub in Worcester Park where Delahunty found them, is not far from Hampton Court and the site of the Nonsuch Palace, which bristled with heraldic beasts.
Few, perhaps, have seen it, and there can be little to see, by all accounts, but what remains is the ruin of Nonsuch Palace—just the foundations of the banquet hall; that is all that remains of the palace which was to be incomparable, like no palace a king ever built before, the royalest building in Christendom.
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