ABSTRACT
Mid-Victorian masterpiece: Parliament in its setting The Palace of Westminster is probably the United Kingdom’s most famous landmark. Like the Parliament it houses, the palace comprises mediaeval origins, Victorian reinventions and modern fl ourishes. Just as Parliament itself has developed, the palace has grown and changed over nearly a thousand years. Much of the change has been evolutionary and incremental, sometimes even make-do-and-mend. At other times the change has been drastic.
