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The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. Henry VIII moved the royal residence to White Hall after the old royal apartments ...
Aug 17, 2023 · Secrets of Henry VIII's Whitehall: The Archaeology of a Lost Palace. Date: 17 August 2023. Author: Alfred R J Hawkins. On January 4 1698 a catastrophic fire broke out in Whitehall Palace. The Banqueting House, arguably the most architecturally and artistically important part of the palace was saved and can still be seen today, but the rest of ...
Apr 23, 2024 · The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675. Above is the palace viewed from St James’s Park around 1675, It’s such a jumble of buildings that it’s not immediately obvious that it’s all one palace but you can see Banqueting house on the left hand side behind the clock tower. This plan dating from 1670 gives you an idea of ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Windsor. 2022–. This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen. Whitehall Palace, former English royal residence located in Westminster, London, on a site between the Thames River and the present-day St. James’s Park. York Place, the London residence of the archbishops of York since 1245, originally occupied the site.
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Chapter 1: Introduction. Whitehall, the centre of government and power, would look very different today if it weren’t for a careless maid drying some laundry over a fire some 300 years ago. Where the governmental buildings and pavements trod by civil servants and tourists stand today was once the largest palace in Europe – Whitehall Palace.
The origins of Whitehall Palace lie in the London residence of the Archbishops of York – a large complex of buildings erected near Westminster Palace on the banks of the Thames. The last archbishop to live in the house was Cardinal Wolsey who had, in great style, enlarged and modernised it. The old palace of Westminster was burnt by a ...
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He called it Whitehall, and it became the principal setting for the passions, intrigues and ceremonies of the Tudor, and afterwards, the Stuart monarchies. In 1698, disaster struck - the palace burnt down. Image: View of the Palace of Whitehall in 1724 (detail), Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
