Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross
QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427795
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Strand The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 2: Volume 18 , Vol. 18, (1937)
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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