It was such a strange, stormy day, one minute hail, then fierce light, that I thought I would bicycle down to see Greenwich Hospital from across the river, one of the great views in London:-

I realised that the composition of the blocks by the river, including the King Charles block by John Webb, is odd because the façade facing the river is so much more elaborate – if you like, more baroque – than the two long and more Palladian façades facing one another across the great courtyard.

This is the river façade – two temple fronts joined together, itself an unusual composition:-

Then the adjacent façade is compositionally quite different (I show the replica façade on the Queen Anne block):-

Here they are together, seen from the east.  Maybe this is a view not many people see and Webb didn’t expect one to see:-