Buckingham Palace Forecourt Gate Piers, Gates, Railings And Lamps is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Edwardian Gate piers and railings.
Buckingham Palace Forecourt Gate Piers, Gates, Railings And Lamps
- WRENN ID
- kindled-alcove-violet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Gate piers and railings
- Period
- Edwardian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 2979 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER THE MALL, SW1 90/21 Buckingham Palace forecourt 5.2.70 gate piers, gates, railings and lamps
I G.V.
Palace forecourt gate piers with lamps, gates, railings. 1901-1911 by Sir Aston Webb as part of his Victoria Memorial scheme together with the gates, balustrades etc at the west end of the Mall, q.v. Portland stone and ornate ironwork. Beaux Arts inspired Imperial classicism. Tall panelled gate piers with carved trophies and ornamented, surmounted by sculptural groups and heraldic beasts, the main piers with candelabra lanterns and single lanterns to the piers spacing the railings; the ornamental gates of wrought iron and bronze by W Gilbert and L Weingarten of the Bromsgrove Guild. The gate piers are in fact those designed by Blore in 1847-50, re-used, copied and elaborated by Webb.
Listing NGR: TQ2911379693
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