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Eltham Palace in southeast London is known for combining a medieval great hall, built by Edward IV in the 1470s, with a lavish Art Deco house added by Stephen and Virginia Courtauld in the 1930s. The great hall's hammerbeam roof is the third-largest of its type in England, and the Art Deco interior has been described as a "masterpiece of modern design".
Edward IV built the Great Hall at Eltham Palace in the 1470s. The hall features a hammerbeam roof that ranks as the third-largest of its type in England.
Erasmus visited Eltham Palace in 1499, brought there by Thomas More on what was presented as a casual walk from a nearby estate. He met Henry, aged nine, the future Henry VIII, and was so impressed that after receiving a dinner invitation to write something, he finished a poem within three days of returning home.
Stephen Courtauld and his wife Virginia acquired a 99-year lease on Eltham Palace in 1933. They commissioned architects Seely and Paget to restore the medieval great hall and attach a new Art Deco home to it, with interiors designed by Swedish designer Rolf Engströmer and Italian designer Piero Malacrida de Saint-August. Stephen was the younger brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
During the English Civil War, the parks at Eltham were stripped of their trees and deer. John Evelyn visited on the 22nd of April 1656 and described the palace and chapel as in "miserable ruins" with the woodland destroyed. The palace never recovered its former status as a royal residence.
Eltham Palace has hosted many productions, including The Gathering Storm (2002), Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Crown (2017), and Stan and Ollie (2018), among others. Its mix of medieval and Art Deco architecture makes it a versatile filming location.