Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Hospital Chelsea

Year

1692

Type

building

Veterans' retirement hospital on a 27-hectare riverside site in Chelsea, founded by Charles II in 1682 and completed by Christopher Wren in 1692 for army pensioners "broken by age or war." Wren laid out three open courts, the central Figure …

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