Palace of Whitehall
Also known as Palace of White Hall, York Place, Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, Westminster
former building in the City of Westminster, London
Key facts
- Location
- City of Westminster , Middlesex , Kingdom of England
- Built
- c. 1240 , 15–17th century
- Demolished
- 1698 (due to fire)
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- Image
- The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrik Danckerts.jpg
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- Commons category
- Palace of Whitehall
- inception
- 1530-00-00
- native label
- Palace of Whitehall
- P12749
- Ehrhardt Post
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1698-00-00
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Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall, which was realised only in part.
The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. Henry VIII moved the royal residence to Whitehall after the old royal apartments at the nearby Palace of Westminster were themselves destroyed by fire. Although the Whitehall palace has not survived, the area where it was located is still called Whitehall and has remained a centre of the British government.
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