Hampton Court Palace largest in the world . The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, chief minister to and favourite of Henry VIII, took over the site of Hampton Court Palace in 1514. It had previously been a property of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Over the following seven years, Wolsey spent lavishly (200,000 Crowns) to build the finest palace in England at Hampton Court. Today, little of Wolsey's building work remains unchanged. The first courtyard, the Base Court, ("B on plan"), was
Hampton Court astronomical clock and at low water London Bridge created dangerous rapids. The clock was restored in 1711 by William Herbert. In 1831 the astronomical dial had been removed, and the mechanism was replaced with that from a clock dating from 1799 from St James's Palace. In 1879 the astronomical dial was found, and Gillett & Bland manufactured a new clock movement. The clock was fully restored in 2007 and 2008 by the Cumbria Clock Company in Dacre in time for the 500th anniversary of the accession of King Henry VIII. Hampton Court astronomical clock Hampton Court astronomical clock is a sixteenth-century astronomical