Wednesday 6 May 2015

London Museums - Banqueting House, Whitehall


The ceiling at Banqueting House


The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house, and the only remaining component of thePalace of Whitehall. The building is important in the history of English architecture as the first building to be completed in the neo-classical style which was to transform English architecture.