Admiralty Arch. The Lake and The Blue Bridge. Duck Island. Help us improve our website by providing your feedback. As today, there were two sentry boxes on the Whitehall side for Household Cavalry sentries to guard the Palace gates opposite as well as Horse Guards itself. The northern half of the building housed the duty troops of the Household Cavalry while the Foot Guard were housed on the south side with their own small courtyard formed from an area of the old Tiltyard not built upon.
From this the Foot Guard acquired its name as the Tiltyard Guard. The Household Cavalry Sentries stood guard in their sentry boxes as today, with duty detachments providing travelling escorts whenever members of the Royal Family left the Palace of Whitehall.
At that time the only entrance to it was through the Horse Guards building and entry was strictly controlled by a system of passes. This tradition continues today with the allocation of oval plastic passes formerly ivory to selected courtiers. Only the monarch has the right to ride through Horse Guards Arch without displaying a pass to sentries. Having always had the Palace in front of them to guard, overnight old Horse Guards found that responsibility transferred to its rear.
However, Horse Guards remained as the only official entrance to the Court and has done so ever since. Over the years the old building was increasingly used as a military administrative base and had become overcrowded and cramped.
It had also fallen into disrepair and by the sentries were said to be in danger from falling masonry. In that year King George II agreed to replace the building and the design was entrusted to William Kent, who had also designed the new Treasury building just to the south.
Not permitted to encroach on St James's Park , Kent kept the basic design of the old building, including the domed clock tower, but extended the wings around the courtyard, doubling its capacity.
The building was intended as a dramatic Palladian-style entrance to what was going to be a new Palace where the old Palace of Whitehall had stood. However, George III instead bought Buckingham Palace as his principle residence, which of course is still in use today.
It continued the previous clock's proud tradition as the most accurate timepiece in West London until the installation of Big Ben in A coffee house, established in rooms of the floors overlooking Whitehall, rapidly acquired an unsavoury reputation. Horse Guards being considered a military garrison, any attempt by the civil police to deal with disorder was strongly resisted but after being described in a War Office Memo as "to all intents and purposes a common public house, occupied by people of the worst character and low women" it was finally closed in Absolutely no comparison should be made with the current NMFI canteen.
There are two dismounted sentries on duty until the gates are shut at 8pm, when only one sentry is left on guard until 7am when the second sentry returns on duty. Back of Horse Guards Arch.
Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground. It was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehall's tilt yard, where tournaments were held in the time of Henry VIII, between knights in armour. Today it is the scene of the annual celebrations of the Monarch's official birthday - Trooping of the Colour.
The guard is formed from the two regiments that comprise the Household Cavalry, they are the LifeGuards, originally the bodyguard to Charles I, and the Blues and Royals, formed from a regiment serving Oliver Cromwell.
The LifeGuards wear white plumes on their helmets and red tunics. The Blues and Royals wear red plumes and blue uniforms. Go through the parade ground at the back of Horse Guards. Turn right to the Mall , here you can walk down to Buckingham Palace. OR continue down Whitehall see map below. Hover over and click on the labels on the map. Back to Buildings and landmarks of London.
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