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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:03:00

The only major surviving part of the old Palace of Whitehall, the Banqueting House stands on Whitehall in central London, a refined classical building among the government offices of the surrounding street. It was the grandest room of what was once the largest palace in Europe. It was designed by the architect Inigo Jones and completed in 1622 for King James I. Jones had studied in Italy, and the building introduced the disciplined Palladian classicism of the Renaissance to England, in marked c...