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Jacobean age
Banqueting House, an example of Jacobean architecture, in Whitehall, London; designed by Inigo Jones and built in 1619ā22.
Whitehall Palace
palace, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Whitehall Palace, former English royal residence located in Westminster, London, on a site between the Thames River and the present-day St. Jamesās Park. York Place, the London residence of the archbishops of York since 1245, originally occupied the site.
Cardinal Wolsey enlarged the mansion and lived there until his fall, when Henry VIII acquired and reconstructed it, employed Hans Holbein the Younger in its decoration, and made it his principal residence. Inigo Jones designed a new palace for James I, but only the Banqueting House was completed (1622); this survived several fires, one of which (1698) destroyed most of the rest of the palace.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer.
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