MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE

MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE, HYDE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248615
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE, HYDE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248615
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE, HYDE PARK

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:: MEMORIAL HORSE TROUGH OPPOSITE ALBERT GATE ENTRANCE, HYDE PARK

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 27905 79848

Details

TQ 2779 NE HYDE PARK

87/53 Memorial Horse Trough opposite Albert Gate Entrance

II

Memorial horse trough. 1892, donated by J H Buxton through the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association. Grey granite double trough supported blocks with spur stones at either end; waste water tray beneath. Cistern at one end. Formerly located at Blackfriars Bridge, the trough was moved to the present site 1985 as a memorial to horses killed in the IRA terrorist bombing of the Household Cavalry a year earlier. The south end carries a cast iron memorial plaque. Founded in 1859 The Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association (Cattle rough added 1867) provided free fresh water to many humans and beasts at a time when ale and spirits were easier to obtain than water and most supplies contamina- ted. Cattle driven to the metropolitan markets and, by 1885, over 50,000 working horses in London were spared the frequent risk of death from dehydration by the provision of troughs.

Listing NGR: TQ2790579848

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Legacy System number:: 430323
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

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