Banqueting House

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Banqueting House

Until Thu Feb 28

Banqueting House ceiling paintings by Peter Paul Rubens © Richard Lea-Hair/newsteam.co.uk/HRP

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Wed Jun 11 2008

This handsome Italianate mansion, which was designed by Inigo Jones

and constructed in 1620, was the first true Renaissance building in London. The sole surviving part of the Tudor and Stuart kings' Whitehall Palace, the Banqueting House features a lavish painted ceiling by Rubens, glorifying James I, 'the wisest fool in Christendom'. Regrettably, James's successor, Charles I, did not rule so wisely. After losing the English Civil War to Cromwell's Roundheads, he was executed in front of Banqueting House in 1649; the event is marked each January.

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Banqueting House

Whitehall, SW1A 2ER Hide map/details

Thu Feb 28

- 10:00

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Address:
Palace of Whitehall
Banqueting House Whitehall
Westminster
SW1A 2ER

Phone:
0844 482 7777, bookings 08445 791940
Website:
www.hrp.org.uk/BanquetingHouse
Opening hours:
Daily 10am-5pm, last admission 4.15pm (on occasion closes at 1pm for private functions; check opening times before your visit: 0844 482 7777)
Transport:
Tube: Westminster/Charing Cross
Price:
£5, £4 concs; under-16s free
Map
1. Palace of Whitehall
  - Palace of Whitehall
    Whitehall
    Westminster
    SW1A 2ER
  - 0844 482 7777, bookings 08445 791940
  - www.hrp.org.uk/BanquetingHouse
  - 51.504115,-0.125860