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==History of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main building==

 

 

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office occupies a building which originally provided premises for four separate government departments: the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office, and the Home Office. Construction on the building began in [[1861]] and finished in [[1868]], and it was designed by the architect [[George Gilbert Scott]]. Its architecture is in the [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]] style; Scott had initially envisaged a [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] design, but the then Foreign Secretary [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]] insisted on a classical style. Palmerston was Prime Minister at the time the building was begun, in 1861, not Foreign Secretary, a post that he had not held since 1851.