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The history of the Palace of Westminster began in the Middle Ages – in the early eighth century – when there was an Anglo-Saxon church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle which became known as the West Minster (St. Paul's being the East Minster). [ 1 ][ 2 ] In the tenth century the church became a Benedictine abbey and was adopted as a royal ...
Being originally a royal residence, the Palace included no purpose-built chambers for the two Houses. Important state ceremonies took place in the Painted Chamber – originally built in the 13th century as the main bedchamber for King Henry III (r. 1216–1270).
The imperial palace was built on the ... The collection ranges from the 15th to the 19th century. Presumably in the 13th ... 16th-century palace of ...
Many palaces, residences, and leisure pavilions were built in the 19th century, most of them in the Bosphorus suburbs of Istanbul. The most significant is the Dolmabahçe Palace, constructed for Sultan Abdülmecit between 1843 and 1856. [174] It replaced the Topkapı Palace as the official imperial residence of the sultan. [175]
The great west window and the rose window in the north transept date from the early 18th century but the remainder of the glass is from the 19th century onwards. The newest stained glass is in The Queen Elizabeth II window, designed by David Hockney. History did not cease with the dissolution of the medieval monastery on 16th January 1540.
In the middle of the 16th century the façade was renewed in the Renaissance style. In 1552 the Schweizertor (Swiss Gate) was built. Designed by Pietro Ferabosco, it is one of only a handful of Renaissance monuments in Vienna. This wing houses the Imperial Treasury, where the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire are kept.
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There are interesting stone and half-timbered buildings from the 13th–16th centuries and guildhalls belonging to the bakers’ and cloth merchants’ guilds; the latter (1494) is now the Kaiserworth Hotel. The Imperial Palace (c. 1040, restored late 19th century) was built by Emperor Henry III, whose tomb is
