Whitehall
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Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea. It is the main thoroughfare running
Whitehall pictured in 2012, with The Cenotaph (distant) and Monument to the Women of World War II in the middle of the carriageway, and the Elizabeth Tower housing Big Ben in the background.
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.
People gathered in Whitehall to hear Winston Churchill's victory speech, 8 May 1945
View of the Horse Guards Building from Whitehall, showing the three arches that link it to Horse Guards Parade
Banqueting House
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The Banqueting House, on Whitehall in the City of Westminster, central London, is the grandest and best-known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting houses, constructed for elaborate entert
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…Whitehall previously occupied the area and was the residence of Kings Henry VIII through to William III, before it was destroyed by fire in 1698; only the Banqueting House has survived. Whitehall was originally a wide road that led to the gates of the palace; the route to the south was widened in the 18th century, following…
Whitehall façade
The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left
Inigo Jones' 1638 plan for a new palace at Whitehall, "one of the grandest architectural conceptions of the renaissance in England"; the Banqueting House is incorporated to the near left of the central courtyard (for the most part, Jones's plan was ultimately never executed)
A contemporaneous German print showing the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House, which is inaccurately depicted