Richmond Palace Wall

The Richmond Palace Wall is a garden wall built in the early 16th century, specifically between 1498 and 1501 for Henry VII. It originally separated the Privy Garden and Privy Orchard of Richmond Palace. The wall is constructed of red-brown brick in English bond and stands approximately 4.5 meters high. It features chamfered brick coping above courses of dentil and dog-tooth brickwork. There are likely 20th-century inserted round-arched and square-headed openings that are now blocked. The wall was raised by 2.3 meters in 1938-1939 using stock brick and includes crenellations. The southern end of the wall is a separate build with a different alignment, made of brown brick, some of which is in Flemish bond and has been repaired. The northern end is obscured behind a lean-to garden building at a break in the 16th-century walling.