Westminster Palace Floor Plan

Liz hallam smith the team s historical consultant from the university of york said we were trawling through 10 000 uncatalogued documents relating to the palace at the historic england archives in swindon when we found plans for the doorway in the cloister behind westminster hall.

Westminster palace floor plan.

Its floor area is about 1 547 sq m 1 850 sq yds and it is one of the largest medieval halls in europe with an unsupported roof. Official title the palace of westminster. This is the plan of principal floor of the houses of parliament in westminster england. The scale is given in feet.

Henry viii moved the royal residence here after the old royal apartments at the nearby palace of westminster were themselves destroyed by fire. See related links to what you are looking for. Westminster hall and the other medieval survivals westminster hall of which the walls were built in 1097 is the oldest surviving building on the site. It was believed that.

In his new critical review of the publick buildings statues and ornaments in and about london and westminster of 1736 james ralph wrote that. The palace of westminster commonly known as the houses of parliament lies on the north bank of the river thames in the city of westminster in central london. The palace of whitehall or palace of white hall at westminster middlesex was the main residence of the english monarchs from 1530 until 1698 when most of its structures except notably inigo jones s banqueting house of 1622 were destroyed by fire. The houses of parliament is located on the river thames.

Plans for major reconstruction of the site were occasionally considered but it was not until the disastrous fire of 1834 that the construction of a new palace became a necessity. The westminster palace was originally a royal residence built in the 11th century ce for edward the confessor in 1512 much of the structure was destroyed in a fire. It was rebuilt only to be destroyed again in even greater fire in 1834. The floor plans give an impression of how grand a scale this is all on the ground floor of the palace is 420ft long and more than 180ft across while the top floor of this wing is 370ft by 120ft.

The palace of westminster site was strategically important during the middle ages as it was located on the banks of the river thames known in medieval times as thorney island the site may have been first used for a royal residence by canute the great during his reign from 1016 to 1035. Construction lasted from 1836 to 1868. Barry s great building the houses of parliament. The architect was sir charles barry.