ENFIELD PALACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

ENFIELD PALACE

TO BE DEMOLISHED The remains of Enfield Palace, which was built by Edward VI. for his sister, Princess Elizabeth, and was until the end of last year the home of the Enfield Constitutional Club, is shortly to be demolished. Drapery stores will be erected on the site. The Palace originally consisted of a centre with boldly projecting wings, but thc main portion was pulled down in J7P2. Since then the remaining part I 1 as been put to various purposes, among them those of a grammar school, whose master, Dr Robert Uvcdalc, pianied a great cedar immediately behind thc house, which is supposed ro have been the first tree of its kind in England- The Palace contains many fine examples of period decoration. In the principal apartment, known as the O:»k Room, are an ornamental ceiling with four pendants, and a stone chim-ncy-piece beavng th e arms of England and France, with thc Tudor rose anl the monogram of Edward VI. The walls are covered with linen-,fbld oak panelling. Fears lest any of this work should find a home in America are set at rest by the decision of Major Lcggatt and Mr Dudley Lcggatt, the former owners Ou the Palace, to erect beside their own house at Enfield an exact replica of the Oak Room, where all the treasures it now contains will be preserved.