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4 unusual facts about Banqueting House


Banqueting House, Gibside

This example was constructed in 1746, designed by Daniel Garrett for George Bowes, who had made his fortune from coal.

Banqueting House, Whitehall

Examples of the style's popularity can be found throughout England; the then-remote county of Somerset alone contains three 17th-century versions of the Banqueting House: Brympton d'Evercy, Hinton House, and Ashton Court.

Luminalia

Masques were usually staged in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace—but it was feared that the new Rubens murals on the ceiling there would be damaged by candle soot.

The Banqueting House

Banqueting House, Gibside, part of the former Gibside estate, near Newcastle upon Tyne


Cuddington, Surrey

The palace was never fully completed by Henry VIII but was sufficient under Mary I of England to be used by Keeper of the Banqueting House, Sir Thomas Cawarden to entertain Gilles de Noailles, the French Ambassador.


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