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Old Palace Yard is immediately to the west of the Houses of Parliament (aka the Palace of Westminster) in Westminster, London, England, near the eastern end of Westminster Abbey. It provides pedestrian access to the Houses of Parliament via St Stephen's Entrance. A square of grass opposite is often used by television journalists to interview Members of Parliament. It is also known as the location of the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, and of Guy Fawkes, other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, and of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton following the Battle of Preston.
As detailed in a Parliamentary document,[1] Old Palace Yard is also home to an Analemmatic sundial, a gift to the Queen from Parliament on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, this being the year in which the Parliament decided to construct the southern section of the historical 'Old Palace Yard' in the architectural form of a separate 'yard' relating to the Parliament in the sense that a 'yard' can be defined as an enclosed paved piece of land next to or surrounded by a building or buildings and in this case bordered by a building on one side and a public road on the other; historically however the 'Old Palace Yard' was evidently an area defined architecturally as well as in point of law as one between the buildings Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords. It is to be assumed that this continues to be its definition or architectural form in theory with the fact in point of law perhaps in some ways unfortunately contradicted from the beginning of the 21st Cent. by the form of the newly designed architecture on the southern section.[2] The House of Lords side of the Old Palace Yard is also as from 2002 home to an Analemmatic sundial, a gift to the Queen.
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- ^ Information Office: 'The Palace of Westminster'. URL: http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/ Date accessed: 8 March 2012.
- ^ Information Office: 'The Palace of Westminster'. URL: http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/estatehistory/the-middle-ages/oldandnewpalaceyards-/ Date accessed: 8 March 2012.
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