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Regarded as one of the finest groups of Baroque buildings in Britain, the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich was designed by Christopher Wren and forms the centrepiece of the riverside ensemble recognised by UNESCO as the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. The buildings were begun at the end of the seventeenth century as the Royal Hospital for Seamen, a charitable home for elderly and injured sailors of the Royal Navy, conceived as a naval counterpart to the soldiers' hospital in Chelsea,...