File:Henry VIII's Wine Cellar MOD 45159969.jpg

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English: Henry VIII's Wine Cellar in the basement of the Minisrty of Defence Main Building.

The Wine Cellar is one of the few remaining parts of Whitehall Palace – the main London residence of Kings and Queens (and Lord Protectors – because Oliver Cromwell also lived there) for over 150 years. Today Whitehall is the name of the broad road linking Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square, or it’s used as a synonym for ‘government’, but Whitehall was once the biggest palace in Europe – bigger than the Vatican, bigger even than Versailles – covering over 93,000 square metres between the river and Green Park. It is amazing that the Cellar survived. Not only were the buildings above it razed several times by fire in the 16th and 17th century, and by 18th and 19th Century development, but the original plans for the new MoD buildings and the surrounding roads would have meant the destruction of the Cellar. It was another Queen Mary – this time the widow of George V – who requested that they be saved.

So in 1949 they moved the whole cellar. They couldn’t dismantle it (Tudor brick is too soft) they dug around and underneath it and encased the whole space in steel and concrete and shifted the thing 9 feet (about 3 metres) to the West and 19 feet (6 metres) lower.

  • Organization: MOD
  • Object Name: ddc-16-068-008
  • Supplemental Categories: Equipment, Locations, MoD Buildings, MoD HQ
  • Keywords: Ministry of Defence, MOD, Buildings, Main Building, Henery VIII's Wine Cellar
  • Country: United Kingdom
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(Reusing this file)		 Images are downloadable at high resolution, made available at http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk for reuse under the OGL (Open Government License).

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