A View of St James's Palace, Pall Mall etc by Thomas Bowles, published 1763. This view looks east. The gatehouse of St James's Palace is on the right.

Pall Mall (/pæl mæl/) is a street in the City of Westminster, London, situated in SW1 and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the regional A4 road. Pall mall illustrated in Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891 Pall mall (pronounced pal-mal or pell-mell) or palle maille was a game played in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a precursor to croquet. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Thomas Gibson Bowles (January 15, 1841 — January 12, 1922), the founder of the magazines The Lady and the English Vanity Fair, and the maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. ... Main entrance of St Jamess Palace, London St Jamess Palace is one of Londons oldest and most historic palaces. ... The City of Westminster is a borough of London, England with city status. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... London SW1 is the London postal district covering the area of central London on the north bank of the River Thames, roughly between Hungerford Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. ... The Mall, looking towards Buckingham Palace The Mall (/mæl/) in London is the road running from Buckingham Palace at its western end to Admiralty Arch and on to Trafalgar Square at its eastern end, where it crosses Spring Gardens, which was where the Metropolitan Board of Works and for... The Haymarket is a street in the St Jamess district of the City of Westminister in London, England. ... Trafalgar Square viewed from the northeast corner. ... St James is an area of west central London, England. ... The A4 at Hotwells in Bristol The A4 crosses Picadilly Circus in central London The A4 is a major road in England, also known as the Great West Road. ...

Pall Mall is best known for being the home to various gentlemen's clubs built in the 19th century and early 20th centuries. These include the Athenaeum, Travellers Club, Reform Club, United Services Club (now occupied by the Institute of Directors), Oxford and Cambridge Club and Royal Automobile Club. The noted gentlemans Reform Club A Gentlemens club is a members club originally designed for male members of the English upper class. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Athenaeum Club in 2006 as viewed from the south-east The Athenaeum Club in 1830. ... Overview The Travellers Club is a gentlemens club standing at 106 Pall Mall, London. ... This 1840s drawing shows the corridors around the central saloon at first floor level The Reform Club in London viewed from Pall Mall, with the Travellers Club immediately to its left The Reform Club is gentlemens club on the south side of Pall Mall (at number 104), in central... The Institute of Directors (IoD) is a UK-based organisation, incorporated by royal charter in 1903 to support, represent and set standards for company directors. ... The Oxford Cambridge Club is in Pall Mall, London, England. ... The Royal Automobile Club is a private Gentlemens Club and is not to be confused with the RAC plc. ...

George Dance the Younger's Shakespeare Gallery building at 52 Pall Mall (built 1788, demolished 1868-1869), shown in 1851 after its purchase by the British Institution

It was also once the centre of the fine art scene in London; in 1814 the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and Christie's auction house were all here, but none of them stayed for long^[1]. George Dance the Younger (1741 - 14 January 1825) was a British architect and surveyor. ... Joshua Reynoldss Puck (1789) The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, together with an edition of Shakespeare and a folio of prints, was a project initiated by John Boydell in 1786 in London to foster the appreciation of Shakespeare and to build a school of English history painting. ... The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. ... Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ... The Christies auction house in South Kensington, London Christies American branch in Rockefeller Center, New York Christies is a fine art auction house, the largest and by some accounts the oldest in the world. ...

100 Pall Mall, former location of the National Gallery between 1824 and 1834.

The freehold of nearly all of the southern side of the Pall Mall has belonged to the crown for several hundred years, and is still owned by the Crown Estate. St. James's Palace is on the south side of the street at the western end. Marlborough House, which was once a royal residence, is next to it to the east, opening off of a courtyard just to the south of the street. The Prince Regent's Carlton House once stood at the eastern end of the street. Pall Mall was also once the home of the War Office, with which it became synonymous (just as Whitehall refers to the administrative centre of the UK government). The War Office was based in a complex of buildings based on the ducal mansion of Cumberland House which was designed by Matthew Brettingham and Robert Adam. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ... In the United Kingdom, the Crown Estate is a property portfolio associated with the monarchy. ... St Jamess Palace and The Mall by Jan Kip, 1715. ... Marlborough House, London Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London. ... George IV redirects here. ... The entrance front of Carlton House. ... Old War Office Building, seen from Whitehall, London - the former location of the War Office The War Office was a former department of the British Government, responsible for the administration of the British Army between the 17th century and 1963, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence. ... Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... Plans of the ground and first floors of York (later Cumberland) House as designed by Matthew Brettingham. ... Holkham Hall. ... Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. ...

There were at least two other architecturally important ducal residences in the street, Schomberg House, and Buckingham House, the London residence of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos which was rebuilt for them by Sir John Soane (not to be confused with the Buckingham House which became Buckingham Palace). Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. ... Wikisource has an original article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica about: Buckingham, Earls, Marquesses And Dukes of Not to be confused with Earl of Buckinghamshire. ... Sir John Soane (10 September 1753 - 20 January 1837) was a British architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical tradition. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial. ...

The former branch of the Midland Bank in Pall Mall was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) opened as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. ... Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. ...

Trivia

View westwards along Pall Mall at sunset from the traffic island outside the Athanaeum Club

• The name of the street is derived from "pall mall" a mallet-and-ball game that was played there during the 17th century.
• The first public street lighting with gas was installed on the Pall Mall in January of 1807.
• In the London version of Monopoly, Pall Mall is a property in the pink set (along with Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue) and is worth £140 (which is oddly low for a street in a district whose exclusive status has never been in doubt).
• The Diogenes Club is located in the Pall Mall.

Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 854 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View westwards along Pall Mall at sunset from the traffic island outside the Athanaeum Club. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 854 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View westwards along Pall Mall at sunset from the traffic island outside the Athanaeum Club. ... Pall mall illustrated in Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891 Pall mall (pronounced pal-mal) or palle maille was a game played in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a precursor to croquet. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ... Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, an imprint of Hasbro. ... Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament. ... Northumberland Avenue is a London street, running from Trafalgar Square in the west to The Embankment in the east. ... GBP redirects here. ... The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemans club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, most notably The Greek Interpreter. It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (although this is never expanded upon in the original stories) and was co...

See also

• Schomberg House
• List of London's gentlemen's clubs

Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. ... See Gentlemens club for an explanation of this particular sort of club. ...

References

1. ^ Illustration of building facades along the street in 1814 (297k GIF format)

External links

• Introductory page from the Survey of London - see also here for the Survey of London's chapters on each of the principal buildings in the street, and here for its diagrams showing the north and south sides in 1814 and the south side in 1960.
• Pall Mall on TourUK
• Panoramic photograph of Pall Mall
• 19th Century Gentleman's Clubs on Pall Mall (including photographs)
• The Institute of Directors' 116 Pall Mall

Coordinates: 51°30′19″N 0°07′56″W / 51.50528, -0.13222 The Survey of London is an ongoing project to produce a very thorough historical and architectural survey of the former County of London. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...