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
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road, Fleet Street, Strand Wc2, City and County of the City of London, EC4Y 1BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 811
- Coordinates
- 51.5137, -0.1119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple Bar Memorial is located in the center of the road and marks the boundary of the City of London. It was unveiled in 1880 on the site of the 17th-century Temple Bar gateway, which was dismantled in 1878 and later moved to Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire by Sir Henry and Lady Valerie Meux in the late 1880s. In 2004, the gateway was re-erected near its original location as part of the Paternoster Square redevelopment. The memorial was designed by Sir Horace Jones, with sculpture work by Sir E Boehm. It is made of granite and bronze, featuring a stone pedestal with niches that contain statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Edward, who later became Edward VII. The memorial is topped with a silvered dragon rampant created by C B Birch.
Local climate
Temple Bar Memorial in centre of road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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