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Foreign and Commonwealth Office The renowned architect Sir George Gilbert Scott worked on the building. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office On Open House day. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office Taken on Open house weekend. I queued for forty minutes and stayed for about an hour. When I came out the queue was right back on itself up to the entrance, must have taken them about seventy minutes to get in. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office Taken on Open House weekend. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office A panorama This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ330 |
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The 'Walkie Talkie' Building 20 Fenchurch Street. Carbuncle cup winner for the worst new building 2015. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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The 'Walkie Talkie' Building This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Three St. Mary Axe AKA The Gherkin. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Guildhall Guildhall has been the City powerhouse since the twelfth century. In an era when the Lord Mayor of London rivalled the monarch for influence and prestige, this was where he and the ruling merchant class held court, fine-tuned the laws and trading regulations that helped create London’s wealth. Today, 800 years on, Guildhall is still home of the City of London Corporation, and acts as a grand setting for glittering banquets in honour of visiting Heads of State and other dignitaries, royal occasions, and receptions for major historical anniversaries. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Guildhall. Magog Statue I took a photo of Gog but mysteriously there were three photos missing when I uploaded them onto my computer so I only have this one of Magog. The original statues were destroyed by the great fire on London and the replacements were destroyed by the blitz. The statues there now were carved in 1953. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Guildhall A magnificent room, the Great Hall is 152 feet long, 49.5 feet broad and 89 feet high. The 15th century walls are 5 feet thick and divided by clustered columns and mouldings.At each end of the hall is a splendid Gothic window, occupying the whole width, and nearly perfect in all architectural details. The stone arched roof was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1953 and is the 5th roof. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Temple Church The Temple Church is a late 12th-century church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Temple Church Tomb effigy of William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (born winter 1190, Normandy, died April 6, 1231, buried 15 April 1231. William supported the barons during the 1215 rebellion and was one of the sureities to the Magna Carta, despite his father William the 1st Earl of Pembroke supporting the king. This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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Temple Church This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ200 |
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Temple Church From the Triforium. Eight of the nine effigies of knights can be seen. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ200 |
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The Banqueting House The Banqueting House was designed by Inigo Jones and was built from 1619-1622 at a cost of £15.618 It is the sole surviving component of the Palace of Whitehall. Charles I commissioned Peter Paul Rubens to paint the ceiling. He was paid the astronomical fee of £3,000. He painted the panels in the Netherlands and it is the only ceiling by him which is still in situ. The only time it has been removed was during the second world war. This picture appears in the following picture tours: |
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The Banqueting House "The Apotheosis of James I shows the King holding a sceptre with his foot on an imperial globe, being raised aloft by Justice. It is said to celebrate the Stuart kings' belief in absolute monarchy and the 'Divine Right of Kings". This picture appears in the following picture tour: |
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