Government buildings
Senate House
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Ministerial Buildings
Hampden House
-following British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), Downing Street largely torn to shreds by mob
-new townhouse built for the PM
-with land still owned by PM office
-named after great Roundhead hero who previously built house there
Burke House
-built for the East India Commission at Whitehall
-extravagant, meant to rival the East India House
-with vast courtyard (now enclosed with glass)
-in Indo-Saracenic style - practically-speaking, neoclassical with some large Indo-Islamic flourishes
-named after Edmund Burke
-in honor of role in fighting against East India Company in his own day
-and the East India Commission was much as Burke wrote about in Fox's East India Bill
-statue in front built in his honor
-name and statue semi-controversial today for Burke's views on French Revolution and his identification with Moderate Party
-but typically silenced because it was in honor of Burke's defence of India
-later houses the Foreign Ministry, to the modern day
Admiralty House
-housed the Ministry of the Navy before it was merged into the Ministry of War
-continues to serve as headquarters of the Navy
Horse Guards
-houses the War Ministry
Tower of London
-Samuel Whitbread imprisoned there, giving it nickname of "English Bastille"
-stormed in British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), Mint badly sacked
-in its wake, reconstructed, made national archive
-with further work on this done following Orange Riot of 1834
Buckingham Museum
-turned into a museum, a national museum, to house the Royal Collection of art nationalized following the Revolution
Other buildings
National Mausoleum
-due to Westminster Abbey overflowing bodies there are longstanding proposals to build a mausoleum elsewhere
-and as part of the separation of church and state now needs a new mausoleum
-constructed over 1860s
-in Green Park
-Romanesque, or "Saxon", architecture with a newly republican grandeur
-with its completion many Westminster Abbey monuments moved to it
-and given new higher-tier monuments to accompany it
Monument to the Charter of Liberty and Security
-constructed in 1844 in Hyde Park
-152 m Doric column of masonry
-at the top a platform, with on its corners daughter monuments to
1. Magna Carta
2. Petition of Right
3. Bill of Rights
4. American Declaration of Independence
-and at the apex a representation of Britannia holding the Charter of Liberty and Security
Fox Palace
-constructed for World Expo > 1855 Grand Festival of Industry of All the Nations (London) in Hyde Park
-revolutionary glass architecture which makes it a symbol of the new glass age
Westminster Abbey
-large parts of it burned down in 1834
-reconstructed by government afterwards to confirm the Church being tied to new state
-eventually with separation of church and state it is separated from Church
-but Abbey continues to be maintained by the state
-narthex added like this
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
-grand church near Westminster Abbey
-constructed in 1864
-includes crypt
-famously, Oliver Cromwell's head buried here in grand ceremony, with a grand monument atop it
University of London
-OTL UCL
-founded as radical institution on Benthamite ideals