The is the
United Kingdom 's
Embassy to the
United States . It is located on
Massachusetts Avenue (marking the northern end of
Embassy Row ) in
Washington, D.C. . The embassy also operates consulates general in
Atlanta ,
Boston ,
Chicago ,
Houston ,
Los Angeles ,
New York , and
San Francisco as well as consulates in
Dallas ,
Denver ,
Miami , and
Seattle .
The embassy is contained in a compound that is home to both the ambassador's residence and the old and new chanceries. The ambassador's residence was built in
1929 and was designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens to resemble an English country manor, with the old chancery facing the street. By the 1960s, the old chancery was deemed too cramped, and the new chancery, designed by chief architect
Eric Bedford , was built. Part of the old chancery was converted into staff quarters, and the rest is currently occupied by the offices of the
British Council . The British Government was the first to build an embassy in the area that would later become known as Embassy Row.
Outside the British ambassador's residence stands a
statue of
Winston Churchill . One of the statue's feet is inside embassy grounds; the other is within the District of Columbia. The embassy's website states that this symbolizes Churchill's Anglo-American parentage (his father was British, his mother American) and his status as an
Honorary Citizen Of The United States .
The embassy is one of the largest in Washington employing 250 diplomats and over 600 other staffers. The current ambassador is Sir
David Manning .
On
July 8 ,
2005 , the US Army band played ''
God Save The Queen '' outside the embassy in remembrance of the victims of the
7 July 2005 London Bombings . This mirrored the British remembrance service to the victims of the
September 11, 2001 Attacks when the American National Anthem was played outside
Buckingham Palace .
The embassy was depicted in fiction in the 2006
BBC television
Miniseries ''
The State Within ''.
