The Palace of Placentia was a Tudor royal palace on the Thames at Greenwich. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, founded it, and Margaret of Anjou renamed it Placentia. The infobox gives 1443 as the build date, while the text says building started in 1433. Henry VII rebuilt it from 1498 to 1504, with Robert Vertue as master mason, and Elizabeth of York reportedly devised the plan. It was brick and timber, with a five-story tower and two octagonal towers, and a riverfront about 656 feet (200 m) long.
Red brick was costly and seen as extravagant. The chapel had stained glass and black-and-white tiles. Anne of Denmark commissioned the Queen's House, which Inigo Jones designed as a departure from Tudor style.
Charles II demolished the palace in 1660 in an attempt to rebuild, and John Webb designed a proposed King's House. Construction of Greenwich Hospital began in 1694. The site is now the Old Royal Naval College.
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