WESTMINSTER – GOVERNMENTAL PLACE
A
walk along the Westminster is a “must” if one is visiting Central
London.
I
love the awesome picturesque of the Parliament Houses – looks so
majestic – and I always never miss taking a photography with her.
Besides,
Westminster is an eye opener to me – as I get to see the other side
of a country – the governmental departments, official offices,
churches and palaces, here.
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| GRAND HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT |
A
further walk – one can see the common places among tourists such as
Westminster Bridge, Westminster Palace, Houses of Parliament,
Parliament Square and Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, Jewel
Tower, Lambeth Palace, Tate Gallery and St Margaret's Church.
Westminster
was created when Edward the Confessor moved his residence here, and
built his abbey church on what was then Thorney Island.
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| WESTMINSTER BRIDGE |
The
Palace of Minister remained the sovereign's principal residence until
Henry VIII took over Cardinal Wolsey's palace, York Palace, remaining
it Whitehall.
Westminster
Bridge completed on1862 to designs by Thomas Page, affords an
excellent view upriver of the grandiose complex of the Houses of
Parliament and the Thames towards the City.
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| ST MARGARET'S CHURCH |
Opposite
the Houses of Parliament is St Margaret's Church, which serves as the
parish church of the House of Commons. The present building by Robert
Stowell, dates from 1485-1523, but was refaced in the 18th
century.
The
popular Parliament Square was laid out in 1868 by Sir Charles Barry,
architecture of the Houses of Parliament. It is now a busy traffic
roundabout , round its border are a number of statues to statesmen,
the most striking that of Sir Winston Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones
(1973).
Towering
St Margaret's Church is Westminster Abbey or the Collegiate Church of
St Peter. According to tradition, the church on the site was built by
King Sebert and consecrated in 616 by the first bishop of London,
Melltus.
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