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Thank you it is now on my watchlist.

Can someone upload this Ingo Jones drawing for me please It is orignally drawn by Jones in 1638 so no probs with copyright. Giano (talk) 15:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you JHochman most kind.
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The Banqueting House, Whitehall.

The Banqueting House is the only remaining component of the former English royal palace of Whitehall. Designed in the then innovative and new Palladian style, the building, begun in 1619, was completed in 1622 at a cost of £15,618. It is the grandest and most familiar survival of the architectural genre of banqueting house. In 1649 King Charles I of England was executed on a scaffold in front of the building.

In the 19th century, the building was controversially re-faced in Portland stone, however the details of the original facade are faithfully preserved. Today, the Banqueting House is a national monument, open to the public and preserved as a Grade I listed building.

History

The old Palace of Whitehall showing the Banqueting House to the left

The Palace of Whitehall was largely the creation of King Henry VIII, expanding on an earlier mansion which had belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, originally known as York Place. The King was determined that his new palace should be the "biggest palace in Christendom", a place befitting his newly created status as the Supreme Head of the Church. All evidence of the disgraced Wolsey was eliminated and the building rechristened the Palace of Whitehall.

During the reign of Henry VIII the palace had no designated banqueting house, the King preferring to banquet in temporary structured purpose built in the gardens. The first banqueting house at Whitehall had a short life, built for James I it was destroyed by fire in January 1619, when workmen clearing up after New Year's festivities decided to incinerate the rubbish inside the building rather than transport it away.

An immediate replacement was commissioned from the fashionable architect Inigo Jones. Jones had spent time in Italy studying the architecture evolving from the Renaissance and that of Palladio; he returned to England with what at the time were revolutionary ideas, which were to replace the complicated and confused style of the Jacobean English Renaissance with a more simple classically inspired designs, of which his new banqueting House at Whitehall was to be a prime example. Jones made no attempt to harmonise his design to suit the Tudor palace of which it was part.

Architecture

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Inigo Jones' plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at Whitehall. In the far left corner is the incorporated Banqueting House.

The design of the Banqueting House is classical in concept, it introduced a refined Italianate Renaissance style that was unparalleled in Jacobean England, where Renaissance motives were still filtered through the engravings of Flemish Mannerist designers. The roof is all but flat and the roofline is a balustrade. On the street facade all the elements of two orders of engaged columns, Corinthian over Ionic, above a high rusticated basement, are locked together in a harmonious whole.

The building is on three floors. The ground floor being a low and rusticated, its small winows, by their size, indicating the lowly status of the floor, above this is the double height banqueting hall, which externally falsely appears as a first floor piano nobile with a secondary floor above. The seven bays of windows divided by Ionic pilasters of the "first floor" are surmounted by alternating pointed and segmental pediments, while the windows of the "second floor" are unadorned casements. Immediatly beneath the entablature the capitals of the Corinthean pilasters are linked by swags in relief above which the entablature, crowned by a balustrade is supportd by dental corbel table.

In 1638, Jones drew the designs for a new and massive palace at Whitehall in which his banqueting house was to be incorporated as one wing enclosing a series of seven courtyards. However, Charles I who commissioned the plans never truly had the resources to execute them, his lack of funds and the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War intervened and the plans were permanently shelved.

The plans of the new palace reveal the ideas behind Jones' concept of Palladianism which is not apparently obvious from viewing the Banqueting House today as one entity. The plans show that it was intended to be one small flanking wing of one bay of a monumental facade.

As it was, architecturally, the Banqueting House was always be to be at odds with its surroundings, in January of 1698 the Tudor Palace was razed by fire, fire engines pumping water from the adjacent River Thames were unable to check the flames which raged for seventeen hours, after which all that remained was the Banqueting House and the Whitehall and Holbein Gates.

Following the fire, Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor were asked to design a new palace, however, nothing ever came of the scheme. It has been said that the widowed William III never cared for the area, but that had his wife Mary II been alive, with her appreciation of the historical significance of Whitehall would have insisted on the rebuilding.

Interior

The Banqueting Hall.

Inside the building there is a single two-story double-cube room, the ceiling of which is decorated with paintings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens. These were commissioned by Charles I in 1635 to fill the panelling of the ceiling. Rubens's painting depicts the Apotheosis of James I.

Gallery

See also


Notes

  1. William, p47
  2. Images of England: Banqueting House, English Heritage, retrieved 2008-02-29
  3. Williams, p 45
  4. Williams. p45.
  5. Williams, p50.
  6. williams, p50.

References

  • Williams, Neville (1971). Royal Homes. Lutterworth Press. ISBN 0-7188-0803-7

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Facts from the old WP page that I may use if a ref can be found and they seem needed

The Undercroft was originally designed as a drinking den for James I and a place where he could escape the rigours of public life. The King would come here to savour a glass of wine from his extensive cellars, or simply enjoy some private time with his favourite courtiers.


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Unblock or not

Don't bother to unblock - as not one of them has the courtesy to even contact me, they can leave such decisions to Cyde and Snotrake - who obviously deel with these things. Giano (talk) 23:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)