This Grade I listed Victorian building is one of the last great wonders of Gothic revival architecture in England and is reminiscent of a Cathedral.
With more than a century of history, over 1000 rooms and a 3½ mile labyrinth of hallways it is one of London’s best kept secrets.
The building was built between 1873 and 1882 as the result of a Parliamentary architectural competition won by George Edmund Street (1824‐1881), Street designed the whole building from foundations to spires but sadly died before the building was opened by Queen Victoria on 4 December 1882.
This grandiose and historical building has been described as “a great monument of modern architecture” and still has an important role to play in society today.
























