STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN

STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN, SOHO SQUARE W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236305
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN, SOHO SQUARE W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236305
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN, SOHO SQUARE W1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF CHARLES II IN SQUARE GARDEN, SOHO SQUARE W1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29692 81263

Details

TQ 2981 SE 58/18

CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOHO SQUARE, W1 Statue of Charles II in Square Garden 24.2.58

GV II Standing figure. 1681 by Caius Gabriel Cibber, originally placed in the centre of Square Garden. Apparently Portland stone, badly weathered, life size figure of the King in light armour with full bottomed wig removed to Grims Dyke, Harrow Weald in 1875-76, returned to square in 1938.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2969281263

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Legacy System number:: 427262
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , , Vol. 33, (1966)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.