For most of the year it is used as a car park for the House of Lords, but it is cleared of barriers and street furniture for the annual State Opening of Parliament, the formal opening of the legislative session by the British monarch. It is known as the site of executions, including those of Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, and James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, following the Battle of Preston.Īccess to this part of Old Palace Yard is restricted for security reasons by means of concrete barriers. Old Palace Yard is a paved open space between the Palace of Westminster to its north and east and Westminster Abbey to its west. The Palace of Westminster was rebuilt by Charles Barry, assisted by Augustus Pugin, beginning in the 1840s, and is of Perpendicular Gothic design. The House of Lords is off to the right and the House of Commons is off to the left (with its own entrances). This gated entrance is in the middle of the West Front of the Palace of Westminster.
Seen from the outer edges of Old Palace Yard is the carriage porch of the Peers' Entrance.
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