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The 'Royal Naval College, Greenwich,' is now known as the Old Royal Naval College and is open to visitors. It was formerly a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site in London. It provided a number of courses for naval officers including being home to the Royal Navy's staff college, the staff course providing advanced training for mid-ranking officers.
The buildings were originally constructed to serve as the Greenwich Hospital, designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712. The hospital closed in 1869. The site was formerly occupied by the pre-Tudor "Palace at Greenwich" – also known as the Palace of Placentia – built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1428.


From 1962 to 1996 the Naval College housed JASON, an operational nuclear reactor for naval training. It was fully dismantled in 1999.
In 1998 the Royal Navy left Greenwich and handed over responsibility for the site to the Greenwich Foundation. In late 1999, the University of Greenwich became tenants and began teaching in parts of the Queen Anne, Queen Mary and King William buildings, and in October 2001 Trinity College of Music took up tenancy in King Charles Court.
The compound was used in Patriot Games (film), where an attack on a fictional royal family member, Lord Holmes was filmed.
The buildings are Grade I listed.

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See also

★ Greenwich Visitor Centre

★ Britannia Royal Naval College

★ UK topics

External links

★ Official Site

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★ Photos from the conversion