2-979-099 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Houses of Parliament - Entrance-hall, 1857. 'The entrance-hall has its fireplace, and large five-light window enriched with armorial bearings. The ceiling here will strike the stranger on entering by its richness: a lamp, en suite with the rest, will light this hall at night. A screen of oak, pierced with tracery, with a clock in the centre, and filled with stained glass, divides it from the Peers' Private Entrance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.