The Horse Guards, Whitehall

Architect: George Gilbert Scott

London

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

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The Horse Guards and Admiralty lie on the east side of St James' Park. Annually on the day officially appointed, on the open space called the Parade, between the Park and the Admiralty, the imposing military ceremony known as "trooping the colours" is performed by the Guards. [text accompanying photograph]

Bibliography

The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

Commentary

"Hard-line goths distrusted him [Scott] after the notorious Foreign Office Competition of 1856-9, when Scott was pressured into changing his splendid gothic designs and building in the Renaissance style; the no less splendid result still stands in Whitehall" -- Chris Brooks, p. 321

References

Brooks, Chris. The Gothic Revival. London: Phaidon, 1999.

Last modified 7 November 2003