Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Memorial.

Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road

WRENN ID
open-chalk-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Memorial
Source
Historic England listing

Description

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.

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