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Jonathan Glancey finds out about 17th-century plans for a sumptuous palace in Whitehall.

Jonathan Glancey discovers what happened to 17th-century plans for Inigo Jones's grandiose masterpiece, the Banqueting House. From July 2012.

In the fourth in the series, architectural writer and historian Jonathan Glancey looks at some of the most fantastic building projects of Britain and finds out why they didn't make it off the drawing board. Imagine a sumptuous palace in London that would have taken up most of Whitehall. This was exactly what was planned in the time of James I of England by the King's ambitious architect, Inigo Jones. He had been appointed to the position of Surveyor of the King's Works in 1613 and he drew up extensive and revolutionary plans for Whitehall.

Jonathan Glancey joins Simon Thurley of English Heritage in Inigo Jones's masterpiece, the Banqueting House, to find out what happened to the grandiose scheme.

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Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it

Architectural writer and historian Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it off the drawing board

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