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Construction of the new palace began in 1840. While Barry estimated a construction time of six years, at an estimated cost of £724,986, the project in fact took more than 30 years, at a cost of over £2 million. The first stone of the building was laid by Barry's wife on 27 August 1840. The site was extended into the river by reclaiming land, to a total of about eight acres.

The House of Lords first sat in their new purpose-built chamber in 1847 and the House of Commons in 1852. Although much of the rest of the building was completed by 1860, construction was not finished until a decade afterwards.

In 1835, a Royal Commission was appointed to study the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster. The commission announced in June that the style of the new buildings should either be Gothic or Elizabethan and incorporate the surviving ‪#‎WestminsterHall‬, the Undercroft Chapel and the Cloisters of St Stephen's. A year later a public competition was held. The commission was unanimous in its choice of entry number 64 submitted by‪#‎CharlesBarry‬, who had proposed a Gothic-styled palace in harmony with the surviving buildings. Here are some of the designs that did not make it, in addition to one of Barry's initial designs. 

OnThisDay‬ in 1834 the original medieval Palace of ‪#‎Westminster‬ was almost entirely destroyed by fire after two cart-loads of wooden tally sticks, an obsolete accounting system, were disposed of in underfloor stoves in the basement of the UK House of Lords. After the fire, little of the original Palace remained intact. Areas that did survived included ‪#‎WestminsterHall‬and the Jewel Tower

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16-10-2015

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