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Banqueting House London, the only remaining component of the Palace of Whitehall. A number of marble carvings from the former chapel at Whitehall (which was built for James II) are present in St Andrew's Church, Burnham-on-Sea, in Somerset, to where they were moved in 1820 after having originally been removed to Westminster Abbey in 1706. [33]
A more permanent Banqueting house was built at Whitehall in 1581, costing £1,744-19 shillings. [9] Raphael Holinshed described the building, with its timbered structure covered with canvas painted in imitation of stone, and a painted ceiling including the queen's devices and heraldry.
Whitehall, looking south in 1740: Inigo Jones' Banqueting House (1622) on the left, William Kent's Treasury buildings (1733–37) on the right, the Holbein Gate (1532, demolished 1759) at centre. Banqueting House was built as an extension to the Palace of Whitehall in 1622 by Inigo Jones.
The Cockpit-in-Court (also known as the Royal Cockpit) was an early theatre in London, located at the Palace of Whitehall, next to St. James's Park, now the site of 70 Whitehall, in Westminster. The structure was originally built by Henry VIII , after he had acquired Cardinal Wolsey 's York Place to the north of the Palace of Westminster ...
Britain's Palace of Westminster was built in the Middle Ages as a royal residence. It served as the principal residence of the monarch until 1522, when Henry VIII moved his court to the newly acquired Palace of Whitehall. [6] Since that time, the palace at Westminster has been used by the House of Lords, the House of Commons and various courts ...
Built on the historic royal site of Whitehall Palace, Britain’s seven-storey Old War Office was bombed eight times in the Blitz, has 1,000 rooms, and two-and-a-half miles of sprawling corridors ...
Between 1619 and 1622, the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall was built, a design derived from buildings by Scamozzi and Palladio, to which a ceiling painted by Peter Paul Rubens was added several years later. The Whitehall palace was one of several projects where Jones worked with his personal assistant and nephew by marriage John ...
Whitehall: The largest palace in Europe, residence of English monarchs from 1530 to 1698. The entire palace except for the Banqueting House and the Holbein Gate was destroyed by fire. The Holbein Gate was then demolished in 1759. Winchester House 16th century: 1839: City of London: Great Winchester Street; built by William Paulet, 1st Marquess ...