It was also decided that the style of the new palace should be Gothic (or Elizabethan), and that it should be rebuilt upon the original Westminster site. 'Westminster was ... the home of British ...

16. AP The 180-year-old Yorkstone floors are the oldest surviving feature of the original Palace of Westminster, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1834. In use since the 11th century, Westminster ...

The remains of a medieval stone wall likely to be at least seven centuries old may have been found under the Palace of Westminster, experts have said. The structure, thought to be the original ...

Westminster Palace, dominating the skyline with Big Ben and the Victoria Tower, is of a similar vintage. Built to replace the ramshackle old medieval and Tudor Westminster Palace which burned down in ...

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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin has left Buckingham Palace and is now placed in Westminster Hall where her remains will lie in state for four days. People in the crowd cheered when ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 700-year-old stone wall beneath the Palace of Westminster. Experts believe the structure to be the original Thames River wall, which ran under the ...