QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS

QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236708
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS
Statutory Address:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236708
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2
Statutory Address 2:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, STRAND WC2

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:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2
Statutory Address:: QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, STRAND WC2

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 30197 80498

Details

CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND WC2 TQ 3080 NW and SW Queen Eleanor 72/151; 83/2 Memorial Cross 5.2.70 GV II* Neo-Eleanor Cross, 1864-65. Designed by E. M. Barry and carved by the firm of Thomas Earp. Portland stone on an Aberdeen granite plinth with Mansfield stone details. Elaborate C14 style based on the form of the Eleanor Crosses but in detail related to the Oxford Martyrs' Memorial. Octagonal on plan and rising in three main stages, surmounted by a spire and cross. The shields in the panels of the first stage copied from the Eleanor Crosses and bearing the arms of England, Castile, Leon and Ponthieu; above the 2nd parapet are 8 statues of Queen Eleanor in niches similar to those of the Oxford Martyrs' Memorial. The client was the Charing Cross Hotel Company, the station forecourt site being some distance from the original Charing Cross site. Survey of London; vol XVIII

Listing NGR: TQ3019780498

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Sources

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'Survey of London' in The Strand The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 2: Volume 18 , , Vol. 18, (1937)

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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.