Guide to the Palace of Westminster . s) Robing Huge I hirleen Room, the Guard Room, the Peers Robing Room, the PrincesChamber, the Peers and Commons Corridors, &c, &c, inmany of which the decorations have been duly completed. The Palace of Westminster occupies an area of about eightacres, has four principal fronts—the eastern one being thattoward the river—and contains within its area no less than 13quadrangles or courts for the admission of light ancl air to thenumberless rooms, residences, and offices, of which, besides thetwo Houses and their adjuncts, it is made up. Some idea may be formed
Guide to the Palace of Westminster . s) Robing Huge I hirleen Room, the Guard Room, the Peers Robing Room, the PrincesChamber, the Peers and Commons Corridors, &c, &c, inmany of which the decorations have been duly completed. The Palace of Westminster occupies an area of about eightacres, has four principal fronts—the eastern one being thattoward the river—and contains within its area no less than 13quadrangles or courts for the admission of light ancl air to thenumberless rooms, residences, and offices, of which, besides thetwo Houses and their adjuncts, it is made up. Some idea may be formed of the intricacy and extent of itsplan when it is considered that it contains no less than 500rooms of all kinds, with separate residences (some of them oflarge size) for 18 different officers of the Houses of Lords andCommons; the principal of these are residences for the Speaker,the Clerk of the House of Commons, and the Serjeant-at-Arms. There is also within the building a suitable Chapelformed in St. Stephens Page Fourteen. Westminster Hall (from an old print). Zhe Eyterior
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