Cheam, Nonsuch Mansion 1927
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More about this scene
This is not, of course, the original great Tudor palace of 'None such' built by Henry VIII, which was subsequently given to Lady Castlemaine by Charles II. She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes. The land was eventually bought in 1797 by Samuel Farmer, who built this two-storey, castellated house in 1802-05. It stands further east and closer to Cheam village than the original palace. The trees and shrubs in the foreground are growing in the Dell, a turfed-over Tudor chalk pit which may have been dug in the course of the construction of Nonsuch palace.
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