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Accessibility

Committed to access for all

We welcome all visitors to Banqueting House and aim to make everyone's day out successful and enjoyable.

Free carer tickets

An accompanying carer is admitted free of charge. Whilst concession tickets can be purchased online, complimentary adult carer tickets can only be obtained on the day of your visit.

Guide dogs

Trained assistance dogs are welcome inside Banqueting House. This includes medical alert dogs. We are happy to provide water on request.

Visitors with limited mobility

Main Hall

There is currently no lift access to the Main Hall. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Balcony

There is also no lift access to the balcony.

Email: info@hrp.org.uk

The Undercroft

A ramp down to the Undercroft is available for wheelchair users.

Accessible toilet

An accessible toilet is available back of house. Please ask a member of staff to direct you. Please be aware the toilet is accessed down a short ramp with no handrail.

Deaf or hard of hearing visitors

A transcript of our audio guide is currently unavailable. Please contact banquetinghouse@hrp.org.uk for access to the transcript of the guided tours.

British Sign Language interpreters will be available for certain guided tours.

Blind or partially sighted visitors

Braille guides of Banqueting House are currently unavailable.

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  • Things to see

The Undercroft

Explore the vaulted drinking den beneath the Banqueting House, which was used by James I for decadent royal parties.

  • Closed
  • Banqueting House
  • Included in palace admission (Members go free)
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  • Things to see

Rubens ceiling

Marvel at Sir Peter Paul Rubens' ceiling in its original setting of Inigo Jones' spectacular Banqueting House.

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  • Banqueting House
  • Included in palace admission (Members go free)
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  • Things to see

Inigo Jones' architecture

Find out what remains of Whitehall – known as one of the first examples of Palladianism in British architecture.

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  • Banqueting House
  • Included in palace admission (Members go free)
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Browse more history and stories

James I and Anne of Denmark

Generous, scholarly James and his cultured wife

The Rubens ceiling

The crowning glory of the Banqueting House

The execution of Charles I

Tried and sentenced to death for high treason

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