Built for the new extension to Buckingham Palace, which now houses the Queen’s Gallery, this balustrade was designed by prominent London architect John Simpson and executed in cast bronze and mild steel by Topp & Co.

The style is unrestrainedly classical with the use of steel ropes to comply with British building regulations. Finished in natural bronze and gold leaf, the rope motif follows through into the hardwood handrails above the newels.

The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace is a permanent space dedicated to changing exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection, the wide-ranging collection of art and treasures held in trust by The Queen for the Nation. Constructed forty years ago on the west front of Buckingham Palace out of the bomb-damaged ruins of the former private chapel, the Gallery has recently been redeveloped. It was reopened by The Queen on 21 May 2002 and is now open to the public on a daily basis.

Portico copper roof
Design solutions, fabrication and fitting of ridge and roll cappings and cornice cladding complete with pressed copper ornament, crest sculpture ‘the Squid’ and internal egg and dart moulding. A new system was devised for pressing of ornaments originally intended to be in cast bronze, in sheet copper, with a major saving in expense.

Entrance hall cappings
Ridge and roll cappings with cast bronze terminations and sheet copper fish scale panels in pressed copper sheet, all patinated.