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Old and New London
… architect, "formerly arose a magnificent apex to a royal palace, surrounded by its own greater and lesser sanctuaries …
Old and New London
… builded to the use of this chappell (though out of the Palace Court), some distance west, in the Little Sanctuarie, … now the space between Tothill Street and the Westminster Palace Hotel. Bagford describes this house as of brick, with …
Survey of London
… Langley had himself published design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster in 1736, and he contended that … building a bridge across the River Thames, from the New Palace Yard in the City of Westminster to the opposite shore …
Survey of London
… of ground bounded by Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth Palace Road and Stangate. It was almost entirely surrounded …
Old and New London
… above. The Law Courts, it appears, had been held in the Palace during the reign of William the Conqueror; and it is … with an insolent pride, 'it is but a bed-chamber to the palace that I will ere long raise up.'" Camden says that the … and of timber-work, open at the sides, in the midst of the Palace Court, between the Clochard and the Hall gate, for his …
Old and New London
… on account of their close connection with the Abbey and Palace of Westminster, and of being a royal foundation. For …
Old and New London
… Westminster Buckingham Palace CHAPTER VI. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. ARLINGTON HOUSE, 1700. "The pillar'd dome magnific … to judge of the dignity and greatness of a country by the palace which its sovereign inhabits, they would not be able …
Old and New London
… HistoryAntiquity of the SeeFoundation of the AbbeyThe Palace at WestminsterPresent Size and ImportanceExtent of its … of being considered its founder. After the Conquest, "our palace at Westminster" continued to be the usual town … were not only crowned but buried within its walls. Their palace here adjoined the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. …
Old and New London
… on enlarging Whitehall. After the burning of Whitehall Palace, it was resolved to make a broader street to the … 1665. On its appearance so close to the gates of the royal palace, Charles II. and his train of courtiers, male and … houses, upon Sunday last, in Bell Alley, over against the Palace Gate." Again, on the 21st: "I find all the town going …
Old and New London
… Good ClearancePalmer's VillageVictoria StreetThe Palace HotelWestminster ChambersMetropolitan … in Pimlico, as intolerable nuisances to Buckingham Palace, and of these very houses the public voice now calls … hundred yards west of the Abbey, stands the Westminster Palace Hotel, erected in 1861. Here the office of the …