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Banqueting House
The Banqueting House on Whitehall, London, is a standalone classical palace building by Inigo Jones completed in 1622 and finished with a major painted ceiling installed in the 1630s. It is a two-storey, double-cube banqueting hall set above a rusticated basement and is the principal surviving fragment of the Palace of Whitehall. The building served for royal entertainments, receptions and ceremonies and today survives as a preserved historic monument.
First raised
1622
Its prime
1636
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1636
What Banqueting House looked like in its prime.
A rectilinear three-storey block (low rusticated basement, double-height hall, and upper secondary floor) faced in pale stone with a flat roofline defined by a continuous balustrade. The street façade is divided into seven bays by engaged Ionic and Corinthian columns and pilasters; lower tall windows carry alternating triangular and segmental pediments, upper windows are plain casements. A heavy entablature with dentils and relief swags and masks runs beneath the balustrade; overall a restrained, symmetrical stone frontage.
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8 places to explore in 1636.
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Built for James I as the ceremonial hall of Whitehall Palace, the Stuart monarchs' principal residence; Charles I was executed outside its windows in 1649.
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