The British Embassy in Washington D.C. is the United Kingdom's embassy to the United States. It is located on 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 chancery. The ambassador's residence was built in 1929 and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to seem like an English country manor. The British were the first to build and embassy in the area that would later bcome known as Embassy Row. This building had originally also served as the chancery until the space became to small. Next door is the more modern chancery building designed in the late 1960s by chief architect Eric Bedford . Outside the embassy stands a statue of Winston Churchill he has one foot within the embassy and one on American terrioty symbolizing the special relationship.

The embassy is one of the largest in Washington employing 250 diplomats and over 600 other staffers. The current ambassador is Sir David Manning.

See also: List of British ambassadors to the United States

External links

• Official site