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Time Line part two |
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1534 pargeting and whiting of all the walls, windows and chimneys in the King’s Queen’s lodgings
1534 taking down of two wharves in the moat
1534 bridge built across river
1534 Edward Lydger of Woking, bricklayer undertakes to burn 230,000 bricks in a kiln on Clandon Common.
1536 Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell at the Palace
1537 Two new bowling alleys built
1540 Thomas Cromwell appointed Earl of Essex
1540 Henry VIII and Queen Catherine Howard at the Palace
1540 King’s gallery re-plastered
1540 bridge across river newly planked
1541 Henry VIII at Woking
1543 carpenters frame a new window for the king’s presence chamber and make an arbour (chiefly of birch branches) for the king to dine and sup in
1543 Henry VIII and Catherine Parr at Woking
1544 Catherine Parr at Woking
1547 death of Henry VIII
1550 Edward VI at Woking
1553 death of Edward VI
1558 death of Mary I
1569 Elizabeth I at Woking
1576 two new galleries built
1578/9 new framing and raising of bridge over river making it a foot wider
1579/80 construction of great new window extending through two stories to the battlements
1580 part of the inner moat filled in
1593/4 plasterers modernising the external appearance of the building
1603 death of Elizabeth I
1607 John Norden map of Woking Park
1620 James I grants Manor of Woking to Sir Edward Zouch
1622 Sir Edward Zouch presents gallery to St Peter’s
1625 death of James I
1625 Charles I at the Palace
1625/34 Sir Edward Zouch abandons the Palace and builds himself a new manor house at Hoe Place
1627 sermon preached before Charles I in St Peter’s
1649 execution of Charles I
1685 death of Charles II
1688 death of James II
1702 death of William III
1709 Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, a mistress of Charles II becomes the Lord of the Manor
1714 death of Queen Anne
1810 Estate map showing Palace site in the occupation of William Garment
1823 John Hassell water colour of the remains of the King’s Hall and barrel vault
1874 members of the Surrey Archaeological Society visit the Palace site
1917 report on the condition of the barrel vault
1988 Woking Borough Council purchase the Palace site |
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