The former Royal Hospital for Seamen is one of the greatest and most
dramatically sited buildings in English architecture. This lecture will
recount its historical evolution and context with reference to the
numerous depictions of the buildings and pensioners, and through the
comments of visitors.
Dr John Bold is Reader in Architecture at the University of
Westminster. He was formerly Head of Architecture at the Royal
Commission on the Historical Monuments of England before leading the
project team which recorded and published the buildings at Greenwich
when they were threatened by privatisation in the 1990s.
