The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in

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(officially the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia) ( ar, السفارة السعودية الملكية في لندن) is the

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in the

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. Saudi Arabia also maintains a Defence Attaché's Office at 26

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, a Diplomatic Office of the Cultural Bureau at 630

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, a Medical Section at 60 Queen Anne Street,

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, a Commercial Section at 15/16 Queen Street, Mayfair, an Islamic Affairs Section at 2nd Floor, Park Lorne, 111 Park Road,

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and an Information Section at 18 Seymour Street, Marylebone. The embassy is situated in Crewe House, a detached mansion designed and constructed by Edward Shepherd in 1730, set in its own grounds in Mayfair. Built in the

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, it is a

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listed building. The house was considerably altered in the late 18th and early 19th-century. Much of its neo-classical interior dates from the early 19th-century, and some of Shepherd's original plasterwork ceilings may survive.

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File:Saudi Embassy in London.jpg, The front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy at Crewe House File:Embassy_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_London_2.jpg, The back entrance to the embassy File:Embassy_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_London_3.jpg, Close-up of back entrance, with the

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above the door

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Official site
Houses completed in 1730

Diplomatic missions of Saudi Arabia

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