During the Second World War, the Palace of Westminster was hit Property for sale in Birmingham fourteen times by bombs (see The Blitz). The worst of these was on 10 May 1941, when the Commons Chamber was destroyed and three people were killed.[7] The chamber was re-built under the architect Giles Gilbert Scott; the work was completed in 1950.[1]

As the need for office space in the Palace increased, Parliament acquired office space in the nearby Norman Shaw Building in 1975,[8] and more Property for sale in Birmingham recently in the custom-built Portcullis House, completed in 2000. This increase has now allowed all MPs to have their own office facilities.[1]

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At one stage King William IV considered converting Property for sale in Birmingham Buckingham Palace into the new Houses of Parliament, which was being renovated at the time.[4]

A Royal Commission was appointed to study the rebuilding of the Palace and a heated public debate Property for sale in Birmingham over the proposed styles ensued. The neo-Classical design, similar to that of the White House and U.S. Capitol in the United States, was popular at the time, but had connotations of revolution and republicanism, whereas Gothic design embodied conservative values. The Commission announced in June 1835 that "the style of the buildings Property for sale in Birmingham would be either Gothic or Elizabethan".[5]

Property for sale in Birmingham in 1836, after studying 97 rival proposals, the Royal Commission chose Charles Barry's plan for a Gothic-style palace. The foundation stone was laid in 1840;[6] the Lords Chamber was completed in 1847, and the Commons Chamber in 1852 (at which point Barry received a knighthood). Although most of the work had been carried out by 1860, construction was not finished until a decade afterwards.

Barry (whose own architectural style was more classical than Gothic) relied heavily on Property for sale in Birmingham Augustus Pugin for the sumptuous and distinctive Gothic interiors, including wallpapers, carvings, stained glass and furnishings, like the royal thrones and canopies.