Banqueting House
In Banqueting House, once part of the Palace of Whitehall, you’re standing at a site that no longer houses a building. It stood here as the grandest surviving component of Whitehall, begun in 1619 and completed in 1622 under the design of Inigo Jones, with a Palladian architectural influence that helped shape English classicism. The interior ceiling was later embellished in the 1630s with paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, and the exterior facade was re-faced in Portland stone in the 19th century, though many original details survive in memory and documentation. The Palace of Whitehall itself was the royal residence from 1530 to 1698, built after Henry VIII expanded York Place and pursued the ambition of a “biggest palace in Christendom,” a project tied to the era’s political and religious shifts. …
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