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Oatlands Palace. Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor of the village of Oatlands near Weybridge, Surrey. Little remains of the original building, so excavations of the palace took place in 1964 to rediscover its extent.
Elmbridge's Lost Tudor Palace. This online exhibition explores the history of Oatlands Palace through the ages. This large site has witnessed significant periods of history as a royal palace and a country home, before being demolished in the 1600s.
Today its site is covered by a housing estate. But in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century Oatlands was as well known as a royal palace as Hampton Court. Oatlands had originally been built by Sir Bartholomew Read a fabulously rich London Goldsmith and sometime Master of the royal Mint.
Oatlands Palace was the site of the wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine Howard, in 1540. Learn about this event & the now lost Tudor palace.
While not as famous as some of the other royal residences, Oatlands Palace, on the bank of the River Thames in Surrey, was an important place in the Tudor period. The palace was built by King Henry VIII for his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, and it stood on the site of an old medieval manor.
Jun 11, 2022 · Oatlands Palace in Weybridge: Henry VIII's lost Surrey palace he built for ex-wife that he called his sister. The palace remained important to the Tudor king with its close location to the...
Oatlands forms part of a group of broadly contemporary royal palaces, including Hampton Court and Nonsuch, built around the south western periphery of London by Henry VIII.
