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 148 Architecture in Great Britain. principles of architecture in Italy at the expense of the Earl of Pembroke. His fame rests chiefly on his design for Whitehall Palace, planned by command of James I. : the present Banqueting House in Whitehall (Fig. 65) was a single feature of that great project, and the only part of it actually carried into execution. Many other buildings in London and different parts of England were designed by Fig. 65.— The Banqueting- Hall, Whitehall (by Inigo Jones). Inigo Jones. Of these, St. Paul's, Covent Garden, was perhaps the most successful. It has a recessed portico in antis, with very simple pillars, which gives an extremely dignified appearance to the outside of the building. The inside is somewhat spoiled by the building up of the central door in order to allow the altar to be placed at the east end, which takes away the meaning of the portico. We now come to Sir Christopher Wren, who was born