Features
- Peter Paul Rubens’s magnificent painted ceiling
Best for…
gala dinners, awards dinners and concerts; it is truly a spectacular and versatile venue space.
A little history of the space…
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.
On 30 January 1649, Charles I stepped from one of the first-floor windows on to a scaffold and his ultimate death.
The Bishop of London stood with the King on the scaffold. He said ‘You haste to a crown of glory’ and the King replied: ‘I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown where no disturbance can be’.
