The Banquesting House Tickets

<p> <strong>Banqueting House</strong><br />This revolutionary building, the first in England to be designed in a Palladian style by Inigo Jones and completed in 1622, was intended for the splendour and exuberance of court masques, the Banqueting House is probably most famous for one real-life drama: the execution of Charles I which took place here in 1649 to the ‘dismal, universal groan’ of the crowd.<br /></p>

<p>One of Charles’s last sights as he walked through the Banqueting House to his death, was the magnificent ceiling, painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1630-4. </p>