Hampton Court timeline
The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren
The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio
Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96
The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park
David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends
Garrick's Temple, designer unknown but possibly modelled on Lord Burlington's temple at Chiswick House, is built by David Garrick to entertain friends and house his Shakespeare mementos
Garrick commissions from Roubiliac a statue of Shakespeare for a large niche in the Temple at Hampton. The original is now in the British Museum and an exact is replica in Garrick's Temple
Hampton Court is effectively abandoned by George III as a Royal dwelling and gradually becomes occupied by "Grace and Favour" residents
After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum
An act of 1825 authorises the building of a new Kingston Bridge, fifty yards upstream, which is designed by Edward Lapidge
New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end
The Church of St John's, dedicated to St John the Baptist and designed by Edward Lapidge, is completed in Hampton Wick
St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church
Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public
The first Metropolis Water Act is passed which forbids the taking of water by the water companies from the tidal Thames and this leads to the establishment of what was to become Hampton Waterworks
By 1855 the Southwark and Vauxhall, the Grand Junction and the West Middlesex Water Companies have all established works at Hampton and these are now collectively known as Hampton Waterworks
A west wing is added to Garrick's Villa by Sylvanus Phillips