Place · Tudor Revival royal palace · India
Bengaluru Palace
Also known as Bangalore Palace, Bengaluru Palace, Palace Grounds, Bengaluru
Bengaluru Palace is the royal residence commissioned in 1873 for Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, Maharaja of Mysore, on a plot once owned by John Garrett, linguist and principal of the Central High School. Its design follows Windsor Castle in Tudor Revival style, with fortified towers and turreted parapets, and inside it has 34 rooms, intricate woodwork and a swimming pool. The palace is open to visitors, and its grounds host concerts, exhibitions, weddings and cultural programmes.
- Date
- 1873–None
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Wadiyar dynasty of Mysore
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 12.999, 77.592
Worth knowing
Parts of its exterior walls are covered by creepers, and various films have been shot in the palace complex.
Wikipedia gives both 1874 and 1878 as the year of completion.
Connections (2)
- Site withinBengaluru
Bengaluru Palace stands north of the city centre on a large plot that once belonged to John Garrett, linguist and principal of the Central High School. The Maharaja of Mysore commissioned it in 1873, after the town had been incorporated into the princely state of Mysore following Tipu Sultan's death in 1799 and while the British Residency of Mysore sat in Bengaluru. Today its courtyard and grounds are the city's venue for concerts, exhibitions, weddings and cultural programmes, alongside an amusement park.
- AnalogueMysore Palace
Bengaluru Palace and the Mysore Palace were both built for the Wadiyar maharajas of Mysore within a generation of each other, in two different borrowed idioms. The Bengaluru residence, commissioned in 1873 for Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, follows Windsor Castle in Tudor Revival style; the Mysore Palace, commissioned by Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV in 1897 after fire destroyed its predecessor and completed in 1912 to designs attributed to Henry Irwin, is Indo-Saracenic, combining Indo-Islamic, Rajput, Hoysala and Gothic forms.
Sources
Wikipedia, "Bengaluru Palace".
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