The Banqueting House, Whitehall, is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house and the only remaining component of the Palace of Whitehall. The building is important in the history of English architecture as the first structure to be completed in the neo-classical style, which was to transform English architecture. Begun in 1619 and designed by Inigo Jones it was completed in 1622, 27 years before King Charles I of England was beheaded on a scaffold in front of it in January 1649.

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Location: Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, England
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