2-979-521 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vestibule to the Library of the House of Commons, 1857. Interior of the Palace of Westminster, London. 'It would be difficult to point to any edifice, ancient or modern, in which the style and character of the architecture are more completely carried out than in the new Houses of Parliament. Every apartment and means of communication throughout the vast edifice has its characteristics of the Tudor palatial style, which Sir Charles Barry has adopted...[Depicted] is a Vestibule communicating with the Library of the House of Commons. The door panels are filled with glass and brass trellis-work; and the side and upper windows are charged with armorial badges of the Red and White Roses and Portcullis'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.