Palace of Westminster

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Grade I listed building World Heritage Site palace parliament building seat of legislature

The Palace of Westminster is the historic riverside complex in London that serves as the meeting place and symbolic heart of the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament.

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Observed surface forms (19)

Surface form	Occurrences
Houses of Parliament	40
Westminster Hall	12
Westminster Palace	4
UK Parliament estate	3
Houses of Parliament, London	2
Speaker’s House, Palace of Westminster	2
Big Ben	1
House of Commons Chamber	1
House of Commons chamber	1
House of Lords complex	1
Houses of Parliament in London	1
New Palace of Westminster	1
Palace of Westminster complex	1
Palace of Westminster interiors	1
Palace of Westminster, London	1
Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster	1
UK Parliament buildings	1
Westminster Palace, London, England	1
interiors of the Palace of Westminster	1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grade I listed building ⓘ World Heritage Site ⓘ palace ⓘ parliament building ⓘ seat of legislature ⓘ
adjacentTo	Westminster Bridge ⓘ
architect	Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ⓘ Charles Barry ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Gothic Revival ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ surface form: Perpendicular Gothic Revival
associatedWith	British constitution ⓘ UK government ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom government
constructionMaterial	Anston limestone ⓘ
contains	Central Lobby ⓘ Committee Rooms ⓘ House of Commons chamber ⓘ House of Lords chamber ⓘ Queen’s Robing Room ⓘ Royal Gallery ⓘ St Stephen’s Hall ⓘ Palace of Westminster self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Westminster Hall
coordinates	51.4995°N 0.1248°W ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
destroyedBy	fire of 1834 ⓘ
floorArea	approximately 112,000 square metres ⓘ
function	ceremonial ⓘ legislative ⓘ
governedBy	Parliamentary Estates Directorate ⓘ
hasClock	Great Clock of Westminster ⓘ
hasTower	Central Tower ⓘ Elizabeth Tower ⓘ Victoria Tower ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Grade I listed ⓘ UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
hosts	State Opening of Parliament ⓘ
locatedIn	City of Westminster ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
locatedOn	north bank of the River Thames ⓘ
managedBy	British Parliament ⓘ surface form: UK Parliament
near	Parliament Square ⓘ Westminster Abbey, London ⓘ surface form: Westminster Abbey
notableFeature	Great Clock of Westminster ⓘ surface form: Big Ben bell
numberOfCorridors	about 3 miles of corridors ⓘ
numberOfRooms	over 1,000 ⓘ
numberOfStaircases	about 100 ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.parliament.uk ⓘ
originalFunction	royal residence ⓘ
owner	Crown Estate ⓘ
postalCode	SW1A 0AA ⓘ
predecessorBuilding	medieval royal palace of Westminster ⓘ
publicAccess	guided tours available ⓘ
reconstructionBegan	1840 ⓘ
reconstructionCompleted	1870 ⓘ
restoration	extensive 19th-century reconstruction after 1834 fire ⓘ
securityProvidedBy	Metropolitan Police Service ⓘ surface form: Metropolitan Police Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection
servesAs	meeting place of the House of Commons ⓘ meeting place of the House of Lords ⓘ seat of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ
symbolizes	British parliamentary democracy ⓘ political heart of the United Kingdom ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	cultural ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince	1987 ⓘ

Referenced by (199)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chief Whip → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Committee rooms of the House of Commons → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Elizabeth Tower → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Government Whips Office → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Great Clock of Westminster → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

House of Commons chamber → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

House of Commons committees → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Junior Lords of the Treasury → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Queen’s Robing Room → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Royal Gallery → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Speaker’s Chair in the House of Commons chamber → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

St Stephen’s Hall → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Star Chamber → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Westminster Hall debates → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall debates → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Woolsack → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

lying-in-state of Elizabeth II → locatedIn → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

St Stephen’s Hall → locatedInBuildingComplex → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square → locatedInFrontOf → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

10 Downing Street → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

11 Downing Street → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Admiralty, Whitehall → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Air Ministry building, London → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Caxton Hall, London → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Home Office (historic main buildings on Marsham Street) → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Sikorski statue in London → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Statue of Benjamin Disraeli, Parliament Square → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Statue of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Parliament Square → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Statue of James Outram, Parliament Square → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Westminster Abbey, London → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

subject surface form: Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey Choir School → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Westminster School → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Westminster Underground Station → locatedNear → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Houses of Parliament

Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster → locatedNextTo → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

County Hall → locatedOpposite → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Victoria Tower Gardens → locatedSouthOf → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

36th United Kingdom Parliament → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

37th United Kingdom Parliament → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

38th Parliament of the United Kingdom → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

British Parliament → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Central Tower → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

Court of Common Pleas → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Westminster Hall

Court of Exchequer → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Westminster Hall

Court of King’s Bench → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

this entity surface form: Westminster Hall

Long Parliament 1640 → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ

subject surface form: Long Parliament

Model Parliament of 1295 → location → Palace of Westminster ⓘ