Primary Sources for Construction and Building in the Reign of Henry VIII:
The National Archives, E 101/474/6; formerly E 36/235 (Apr 1514–Apr 1516; Wolsey’s era)
The National Archives, E 101/420/11 (1527)
British Library, MS Arundel 97 (1527)
The National Archives, E 36/236 (1529 and Apr 1537–Apr 1538; the Hampton Court volumes are not chronological.)
The National Archives, E 36/239 (Apr 1528–Apr 1539)
The National Archives, E 36/237 (Apr 1529–Apr 1539)
The National Archives, E 36/ 241 (Apr 1530–Apr 1533)
The National Archives, E 36/ 240 (Apr 1533–Apr 1536)
The National Archives, E 36/242 (Apr 1533–Apr 1535)
The National Archives, E 36/243 (Apr 1534–Apr 1537)
The National Archives, E 36/238 (Apr 1536–Apr 1537)
The National Archives, E 36/244 (22 Apr 1536–21 Apr 1538)
The National Archives, E 36/245 (22 Apr 1537–21 Apr 1539)
The National Archives, E 351/3199 (1538–45, review of general funds spent)
British Library, Royal MS Appendix 89 (Apr–Jun 1541)
Selected Secondary Sources:
Batchelor, D. “Excavations at Hampton Court Palace,” Post-Medieval Archaeology 11 (1977): 44–47.
Bell, C. and G. D. Keevill. “The Excavation of a Trial Trench across the Moat at Hampton Court Palace,” London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 47 (1996): 145–156.
Brears, Peter C.D. All the King’s Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry Viii at Hampton Court Palace. 2nd Ed. Rev., Updated and Expanded (London: Souvenir Press, 2011).
Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 126–147.
Curnow, Peter. “The East Window of the Chapel at Hampton Court Palace,” Architectural History 27 (1984): 1–14.
Dix, Brian. “The Excavation of the Privy Garden,” in Simon Thurley, ed., The King’s Privy Garden at Hampton Court 1698–1995 (London, Apollo, 1995): 112–14.
Foyle, Jonathan. “A Reconstruction of Thomas Wolsey’s Great Hall at Hampton Court,” Architectural History 45 (2002): 128–158.
Heath, Gerald Duncan. The Chapel Royal at Hampton Court (Borough of Twickenham Local History Society Paper 42, 1983), 6–7.
Law, Ernest. The History of Hampton Court Palace. 2nd ed. (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1890).
Morris, Richard K. “Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Tudor England,” in Phillip G. Lindley and Thomas Frangenburg, eds, Secular Sculpture 1350–1550 (Stamford: University of Leicester, 2000), 194.
Musty, John. “Brick Kilns and Tile Suppliers to Hampton Court Palace,” Archaeological Journal 147 (1990): 413–14.
Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 90–92.
“Spelthorne Hundred: Hampton Court Palace, History,” in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1911), 327–71. British History Online, accessed January 31, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp327-371.
Thurley, Simon. “The Sixteenth Century Kitchens at Hampton Court,” Journal of the British Archaeological Association 143 (1990): 1–28.
Thurley, Simon. “The Domestic Building Works of Cardinal Wolsey,” in S. J. Gunn and Phillip G. Lindley, eds, Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art (Cambridge, 1991), 80–81.
Thurley, Simon. “Henry VIII and the Building of Hampton Court: A Reconstruction of the Tudor Palace.” Architectural History 31 (1988): 8.
Thurley, Simon. Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2003).
Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460–1547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 12, 41, 43, 50–54, 60, 68, 71–74, 78–80, 83, 93–137, 141–159, 162–174, 181, 185–190, 196–212, 218, 229, 233, 235, 242.
Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 45, 107, 111, 134, 190, 191, 238, 248, 291, 303, 316, 358, 374, 378, 379, 393, 396, 411, 429, 461.
Selected Online Links:
https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp327-371
Photo tags:
(1). Hampton Court, plan showing buildings attributed to Cardinal Wolsey, ca. 1515–29. (From Colvin, vol 4/2, Fig. 12; Photo: Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, courtesy of the Open Government License Agreement.)
(2) Hampton Court, plan showing Tudor palace at the end of the sixteenth century. (From Colvin, vol 4/2, Fig. 13; Photo: Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, courtesy of the Open Government License Agreement.)
- Hampton Court, axonometric reconstruction of the Tudor palace before its partial demolition in the seventeenth century. No details are available of the fenestration of the royal apartments facing into the court at bottom left. ((From Colvin, vol 4/2, Fig. 14; Photo: Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, courtesy of the Open Government License Agreement.)
- Hampton court, west entrance, restored (and gatehouse lowered from original height). (Photo: C.A. Stanford, 2012)
- The hammerbeam ceiling of the great hall (Photo: C.A. Stanford, 2016)
- Ceiling with gilded battens, 1526–1528 with badges of Cardinal Wolsey (Photo: C.A. Stanford, 2016)
- WA.Suth.L.4.9.2 Anthonis van den Wijngaerde, View of Hampton Court Palace from the South, with the River in the Foreground, 1558 (Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)