Cleopatra'S Needle is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A 1877 (setting on Embankment wall and sphinxes installed) Monument. 2 related planning applications.

Cleopatra'S Needle

WRENN ID: rough-glass-larch
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Westminster
Country: England
Date first listed: 24 February 1958
Type: Monument
Period: 1877 (setting on Embankment wall and sphinxes installed)
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TQ 3080 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, SW1 73/54 24.2.58 Cleopatra's Needle G.V. I Obelisk and sphinxes. The ancient Egyptian obelisk dating from the reign of Thothmes III and one of 2 originally erected in Heliopolis, brought to London as a gift in 1877 (by sea in a specially designed iron sea-going casing), the setting on the Embankment wall with the two huge bronze sphinxes designed by G F Vulliamy. The obelisk of pink granite. The base and water steps of granite. The sphinxes cast in bronze. Stepped platform with flanking sphinxes and granite pedestal to obelisk.

Listing NGR: TQ3054380516

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