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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 resemble an English country manor. The British were the first to build an embassy in the area that would later become known as Embassy Row. This building had originally also served as the chancery until the space became too small. Next door is the more modern chancery building designed in the late 1960s by chief architect Eric Bedford.
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 web site 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.
