Editing Addington, London (section)

===Addington Palace===
Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and now called [[Addington Palace]], dominates the village above the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church and ''The Cricketers'' pub. The manor house was situated behind the church and was the residence of the Leigh family. There is an oft repeated, but false account of a royal hunting lodge, "where King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] supposedly wooed [[Anne Boleyn]], whose family owned nearby Wickham Court" by [[West Wickham]] Parish Church. However, the Anne Boleyn of Wickham Court was the aunt of Queen Anne.

The [[Palladian]] Palace was built in 1780 by [[Barlow Trecothick]], from [[Boston, Massachusetts]] in the colonial [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], who returned to England and became an MP and [[Lord Mayor of the City of London]] in 1770. After his death without heirs, his nephew James Ivers (later Trecothick), also of Boston, continued his uncle's work and had the grounds laid out by [[Capability Brown]].<ref name="Willey">{{cite book |last1=Willey |first1=Russ |title=The London Gazzetteer |date=2006 |publisher=Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd |pages=3–4}}</ref> The estate was sold and eventually, as [[Croydon Palace]] became too inconvenient and unsanitary, the Addington house and part of the estate was bought for the [[Archbishops of Canterbury]] as a country residence.<ref name="Willey"/> The last Archbishop to use it was [[Edward White Benson|Archbishop Benson]]. From 1954 to 1996, Addington Palace was the headquarters of the [[Royal School of Church Music]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the RSCM |url=https://www.rscm.org.uk/world-of-the-rscm/history/ |website=Royal School of Church Music}}</ref>