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Parliament passed the Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 21), long titled An Act for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen, which established the basic rules of use and benefits for seamen, [3] and amended it the following year by the Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 23). [4]
Greenwich Hospital may refer to: Greenwich Hospital, London, which was a home for retired Royal Navy sailors 1692–1869, operated by the Greenwich Hospital charitable foundation; Greenwich District Hospital, a hospital in London from 1970 to 2001; Trinity Hospital, a group of almshouses located east of Maritime Greenwich
The hospital had its origins in St Alfege's Hospital in Greenwich which by the 1960s was in need of replacement. [1] In order to build a hospital with a large enough capacity for the requirements of the local population (up to 800 beds) on a small site (less than 8 acres), a single large building was designed - Pevsner described it as "an unusually large enterprise to be undertaken by the ...
The Queen's House (centre left) and the Greenwich Hospital in the painting London from Greenwich Park, in 1809, by J.M.W. Turner Although the house survived as an official building, being used for the lying-in-state of Commonwealth Generals-at-Sea Richard Dean (1653) and Robert Blake (1657), the main palace was progressively demolished between ...
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The main campus encompasses the Helmsley Medical Building and the Thomas and Olive C. Watson Pavilion. Located across the street from the hospital at 77 Lafayette Place, the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Pavilion houses the Smilow Cancer Hospital Greenwich Hospital Campus, home to the Bendheim Cancer Center and the Breast Center.
The Inigo Jones-designed Queen's House is in the centre of the painting with the Royal Observatory also visible on the hill in Greenwich Park. [2] It may have been produced for the art collector and British consul in Venice Joseph Smith for his residence on the Grand Canal. Canaletto also produced two other views of Greenwich Hospital.