Editing 10 Downing Street (section)

=== Main staircase ===
[[File:Barack Obama's trip to the United Kingdom April 2016 (9).jpg|thumb|Main staircase, 2016]]
When William Kent rebuilt the interior between 1732 and 1734, his craftsmen created a stone triple staircase. The main section had no visible supports. With a wrought iron balustrade, embellished with a scroll design, and mahogany handrail, it rises from the garden floor to the third floor. Kent's staircase is the first architectural feature visitors see as they enter Number 10. Black and white engravings and photographs of all the past prime ministers decorate the wall. They are rearranged slightly to make room for a photograph of each new prime minister. There is one exception: Winston Churchill is represented in two photographs.{{sfn|Seldon|1999|p=49}}{{sfn|Feely|1982|p=13}} At the bottom of the staircase are group photographs of prime ministers with their Cabinet ministers and representatives to [[imperial conference]]s.{{sfn|Seldon|1999|p=49}}<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=68064&filename=figure0748-124-a.gif&pubid=748 figure0748-124-a] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826184733/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-124 |date=26 August 2021 }}, british-history.ac.uk</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=68065&filename=figure0748-125.gif&pubid=748 figure0748-125] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826184832/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-125 |date=26 August 2021 }}, british-history.ac.uk</ref><ref>British History Online, From: '[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68064 Plate 124: No. 10, Downing Street: details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622065253/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68064 |date=22 June 2011 }}', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 124. Date accessed: 20 July 2008.</ref><ref>British History Online, From: '[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68065 Plate 125: No. 10, Downing Street: detail of iron balustrading to main staircase] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622065503/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68065 |date=22 June 2011 }}', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 125. Date accessed: 20 July 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=YouTube – Simon Schama's Tour of Downing Street. Pt4: The Staircase | website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxiOK7hUvU |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709220318/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxiOK7hUvU&feature=channel |archive-date=9 July 2009 |url-status=live |access-date=1 June 2009 }}</ref>