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Palace of Westminster
The Houses of Parliament subjugate the site of a imperial palace which flourished from the period of Edward the Confessor until Henry VIII migrated apt Whitehall and St. James's. Although the Tower of London could adjust the imperial entourage, maximum potentates found Westminster extra congenial than the mercurial metropolis of London. There was handy transport among the 2 by barge onward the Thames.
Parliament's relationship with the palace is one old one, since the House of Lords regularly met in the private imperial apartments from the fourteenth century and the House of Commons accustomed the collegiate church.
Several royal palaces were unfortified even in Norman times and Westminster was 1 of them. The precinct wall namely surrounded the palace not quite developed into a defensive shutter, whereas Edward III commissioned a youthful Henry Yevele to create 2 towers according its line in 1365. One of them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the incipient Clock Tower, has vanished below its prominent beneficiary. The Jewel Tower survives owing to later use as a repository because Parliamentary records. Now one isolated structure facing, and overawed by, the Victoria Tower, it occupied the southwest edge of the medieval palace precinct.
The present windows, enlargements in 1718, do no hide the defensive character of the fortress, and the ground layer is covered by a vault with beautifully engraved bosses. As a material of fact, the Jewel Tower, for its appoint suggests, was built for a secure place for the vast treasures of the King's privy wardrobe.
The spire is a rectangular architecture with a smaller pinion by right angles, cautiously schemed to stand completely outside the angle of the precinct and thus not encroach above the King's private garden, which lay behind. The trench, restored by this point, had to be pushed out onto a piece of land appropriated from Westminster Abbey, much to the annoyance of the abbot and monks.
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