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From its conception, Spencer House was recognised
as one of the most ambitious aristocratic town
houses ever built in London and is, today, the
city's only great eighteenth-century private
palace to survive intact.
Spencer House was built in 1756-66 for John, first Earl Spencer, an ancestor of Diana, Princess
of Wales (1961-97). Situated in the heart of
St James's,
Spencer House is a short distance
from St James's Palace, Buckingham Palace and the
Palace of Westminster, and has a splendid terrace
and garden with magnificent views of Green Park.
"I do not apprehend there is a house in Europe
of its size, better worth the view of the curious
in architecture and the fitting up and furnishing
great houses, than Lord Spencer's in St James's Place…
I know not in England a more beautiful piece of architecture…in richness, elegance and taste, superior to any house I have seen."
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| Arthur Young 1772 |
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