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Banqueting House has 2 rooms available for private hire
Venue hire at Banqueting House
Hire this venue for your own event - it has two function rooms the largest of which can hold a maximum of 450 guests and the smallest is ideal for 60.
In its heyday Banqueting House (the only surviving section of Whitehall Palace) was the largest royal palace in Europe and continues to host many royal and social occasions. The palace originally started life in the 14th century as one of the Archbishop of York's homes. A devastating fire in the early 1600s led to the edifice being rebuilt by Inigo Jones. Due to its isolated position, the Banqueting House survived a second subsequent fire, which razed the rest of the palace to the ground and it eventually became a royal chapel. From Henry VIII to James I, the building echoes with royal connections, the most sinister of which has to be hosting the execution of Charles I during the English Civil War. Charles II marked his restoration to the throne here 20 years later. The building is as architecturally significant as it is historically celebrated, introducing as it did a delicate Italianate Renaissance style unmatched in Jacobean society. It was the first building in England to use crown glass in its windows, while the fabulous Ruben's ceiling painting, commissioned by Charles I, is the only Rubens scheme painted by him to remain in its original position.Banqueting House images
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Hotels Near Banqueting House What's On Today Near Banqueting House  Fourth Plinth: Heather Phillipson THE END Exhibitions | Until 26th March 2022 Trafalgar Square 5 minutes walk from Banqueting House London born artist Heather Philipson puts an ice cream with a cherry on top on The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar ...More Titian: Love, Desire, Death Exhibitions | Until 17th January 2021 National Gallery 6 minutes walk from Banqueting House All six works in the series of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', commissioned ...More  The Watsons Theatre | Until 26th September 2020 Harold Pinter Theatre 8 minutes walk from Banqueting House Adapted from Jane Austen's unfinished novel and "joyously directed" (Evening Standard) by Samuel West, The Watsons comes to the West ...More  Underbelly Festival Theatre | Until 27th September 2020 Underbelly Festival 8 minutes walk from Banqueting House The unrivalled Underbelly Festival presents over 70 shows for five months of comedy, cabaret and children's shows. In a temporary ...More Among The Trees Exhibitions | Until 31st October 2020 Southbank Centre 8 minutes walk from Banqueting House Artworks from the late 1960s up to present day that highlight and explore our relationships with trees and forests, with ...More  Hello, Dolly! Theatre | Until 6th March 2021 Adelphi Theatre 9 minutes walk from Banqueting House Multi Olivier and BAFTA Award winning Imelda Staunton plays meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi, taking the title role in ...More  Life of Pi Theatre | Until 4th October 2020 Wyndham's Theatre 9 minutes walk from Banqueting House Based on one of the best-loved works of fiction, Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi is ...More  The Comedy About A Bank Robbery Theatre | Until 1st November 2020 Criterion Theatre 10 minutes walk from Banqueting House Mischief Theatre, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong - winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy - ...More  Hidden London: The Exhibition Exhibitions | Until 1st January 2021 London Transport Museum 11 minutes walk from Banqueting House Experience an 'abandoned' Tube station and discover stories about Churchill in the Blitz at the London Transport Museum's exhibition, Hidden ...More  Future Engineers Exhibitions | Until 31st December 2020 London Transport Museum 11 minutes walk from Banqueting House Explore the world of transport engineering in the Future Engineers gallery, a permanent display at the London Transport Museum since ...More 
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