Entrance to Croydon Palace, Croydon, Surrey Size:L: 75 x 50cm With a view of St

With a view of St Paul's Cathedral on the horizon

View with two figures and two dogs by a barrow

View of Leicester Square

A soldier holding a sword discovers two men hiding in a long chest

a disorderly mass of pedestrians

Entrance to Croydon Palace, Croydon, Surrey Size:L: 75 x 50cm With a view of StEntrance to Croydon Palace, Croydon, Surrey, c1800. Croydon is now in the London borough of Croydon. A man can be seen begging from two figures. Croydon Palace used to be the summer residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the 18th century the palace with its 15th century Great Hall had fallen into disrepair, and it was sold in 1807.