QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL, THE MALL SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1239086
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL
Statutory Address:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL, THE MALL SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1239086
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL, THE MALL SW1

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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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Statutory Address:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL GATES AND GATEPIERS, BALUSTRADES, STEPS AND RETAINING WALL WITH FOUNTAIN FRAMING WEST END OF THE MALL, THE MALL SW1

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 29112 79822

Details

TQ 2979 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER THE MALL, SW1 90/19 Queen Victoria Memorial: Gates and gatepiers, 5.2.70 balustrades, steps and retaining wall with fountain framing west end of the Mall

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Gates, piers, balustrades surrounding Buckingham Palace rondpoint and retaining wall with fountain above west end of St James's Park. 1901-11 by Sir Aston Webb as part of the Victoria Memorial - Mall scheme completing the setting for Buckingham Palace. Portland stone and ornamental ironwork. Beaux Arts inspired Imperial classicism. Tall panelled gate piers with armorial badges or trophies, either surmounted by trophy-sculptural groups on the main axis or by gilded, Rococo, candelabra lanterns; the ironwork of gates of Louis XV/Louis XVI derivation; the retaining wall to St James's Park rusticated with buttress-piers and overflow fountain down to lake.

Listing NGR: TQ2911279822

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.