Lodge, Palace Fulham

Fulham Palace was the summer residence of the Bishop of London and this Gothic Lodge which still exists is located in the grounds. The Lodge was built in 1821, probably by J B Papworth and was mostly rendered over brick to imitate stone with a gabled old tile roof. It was designed in an eccentric Tudor Gothic style The entrance porch seen here has a traceried plaster vault and Tudor entrance arch. A tall Tudor-style chimney with 4 shafts sits above the Gothic windows.

The watercolour was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1833, William Howley. It is contained in an album of drawings by Henry William Burgess ( active 1809-39), a landscape artist. He was appointed by several noblemen to draw their estates as he specialised in producing studies of trees before becoming the artist to King William IV.