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  2. Sent to reside in his diocese of York, Wolsey took up residence, first at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, then at the Archbishops' Palace at Cawood Castle (13). Here too, he could not resist his desire to build and improve, and began spending money on renovations.

  3. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor, started Hampton Court Palace’s transformation from ordinary country house to magnificent palace. Wolsey wanted to create a grand building where he could host not only the King and the royal court but also monarchs from across Europe.

  4. Not much of Wolsey’s original residence survives. Henry VIII took over Hampton Court and rebuilt it, expanding it further into a great royal palace. And much of Henry’s palace was also demolished by the rebuilding and modernisation programmes of later monarchs.

  5. Mar 10, 2015 · In 1514 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey took over the lease of a small manor on the Thames near Kingston. Over the next decade he would be responsible for laying the foundations of a building that would host Kings, Queens and Emperors, and become one of the greatest palaces ever built: Hampton Court Palace.

  6. Mar 29, 2011 · Wolsey's Hampton Court was renovated by King Henry VIII, obscuring the original design. So what did the Cardinal's palace look like and did it have roots in the Italian Renaissance?

  7. In 1529, Wolsey was stripped of his government office and property, including his magnificently expanded residence of Palace of Whitehall, which Henry took to replace the Palace of Westminster as his own main London residence. Wolsey was permitted to remain Archbishop of York.

  8. Wolsey constructs Base Court, a massive range of two or three room apartments meant to house visiting dignitaries, and a new Long Gallery, elaborately decorated with gothic and Italianate designs in terracotta.

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