This is the only major part of the Queen’s Gallery which is within an existing part of the Palace.  This was part of the Palace that was hit by a bomb during the war and is one of three pavilions which Nash designed at the corners of the Palace.

In order to tie in the design of the interior with the exterior of the pavilion, the new interior for the Nash Gallery was inspired by Nash’s work.  Nash's original picture gallery, designed for King George IV's outstanding collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings, still survives as part of the first-floor rooms of the original Buckingham House, although its original ceiling, which featured hanging arches and glazed saucer domes, has been lost. Nash had also used his innovative ceiling in two other galleries, both now demolished, and the design of the new galleries recreates something of the poetry of these lost spaces. The massive ceiling beams are carried on brackets richly adorned with acanthus leaves, echoing those by Nash found elsewhere in the Palace.