Hampton Court Palace <East Molesey> [Hrsg.]; Wren Society [Hrsg.]; Wren, Christopher [Bearb.]: The ... volume of the Wren Society (Band 4): Hampton Court Palace, 1689 - 1702: original Wren drawings from the Sir John Soane's Museum and All Souls collections (Oxford, 1927)

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Park of Hampton Court, left the interior of Wren's Paiace in a sadly unhnished con-
dition. The inferior quahty of the later work of Georgian times is apparent; and Queen
Anne does not seem to have cared for a Palace so much associated with the sister with
whom her relations had not been altogether harmonious. It is signihcant that, in July
1700, the King sent urgent orders from his Palace at Loo in Holland that the Water
Gallery on the Thames, so particularly associated with Queen Mary, was to be imme-
diately pulled down (see p. 66). It is impossible not to believe that this was in deference
to her memory; but it is unfortunate that this elaborate piece ol work was destroyed. It