Cast-iron column from the Crystal Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 2020. Monument.
Cast-iron column from the Crystal Palace
- WRENN ID
- gilded-string-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge MP: Liam Conlon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 2020
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 338 707
- Coordinates
- 51.42007, -0.07667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cast-iron column from the Crystal Palace is a notable remnant of the 1851 Great Exhibition building. It has been excavated and re-erected on a terrace just north of the southern water tower, which was constructed between 1854 and 1856. This column is one of 3,300 originally found in the Great Exhibition Building. It features a base column that would have supported a second column via a connecting-piece. The column has a circular plan with four flat surfaces, giving it an octagonal appearance. It stands 5.8 meters tall and has a hollow center that functioned as a drainpipe. The base includes a separately-cast base-plate secured by four bolts, while the top has a fragment of the connecting-piece, also attached by four bolts. The column has been re-painted in alternating pale blue and yellow.
Local climate
Cast-iron column from the Crystal Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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