Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road
Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road, Fleet Street, Strand WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264445
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road
- Statutory Address:
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road, Fleet Street, Strand WC2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264445
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road
- Statutory Address 1:
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road, Fleet Street, Strand WC2
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road, Fleet Street, 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
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31112 81109
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 August 2023 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3181 SW
61/15
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
STRAND, WC2
FLEET STREET EC4
Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road
GV
II
City of London boundary memorial on site of the C17 Temple Bar gateway, unveiled in 1880. The gateway was dismantled in 1878 and subsequently removed, in the late 1880s, to Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire by Sir Henry and Lady Valerie Meux. In 2004 it was re-erected near its original location as an entrance to the Paternoster Square redevelopment. The memorial was designed by Sir Horace Jones with sculpture by Sir E Boehm. Granite and bronze. Stone pedestal has niches with statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Edward (later Edward VII) and is surmounted by a silvered dragon rampant by C B Birch.
Listing NGR: TQ3111381108
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1359156 in the City of London. This entry was removed from the List on 26 May 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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