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  2. Marble Arch - Wikipedia

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    The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 as the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace ; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well-known balcony. [ 1 ]

  3. Marble Arch Mound - Wikipedia

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    The Mound was situated next to Marble Arch The hill was located in the north-east corner of Hyde Park, close to Marble Arch, at the western end of London's Oxford Street . The 25-metre (82 ft) high hill [ 2 ] was built from scaffolding covered with sedum turf and a number of trees, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with 130 steps up [ 5 ] (or a lift) [ 6 ] to a ...

  4. Washington Square Arch - Wikipedia

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    The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [ 2 ] it commemorates the centennial of George Washington's 1789 inauguration as President of the United ...

  5. Bryanston Square - Wikipedia

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    That street, this square and Wyndham Place run broad and straight for 750 metres without building projections between an 1821-built church and Marble Arch, moved to its permanent site in 1851. Traffic circulates clockwise around the square and numbering runs anti-clockwise.

  6. Equestrian statue of George IV, Trafalgar Square - Wikipedia

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    Model of John Nash's original design for Marble Arch, featuring the statue of George IV on top of the arch. Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey originally designed the statue to stand on top of Marble Arch in its original position as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, [2] following architecture work by John Nash.

  7. Tyburn - Wikipedia

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    In 1571, the Tyburn Tree was erected near the junction of today's Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street, 200 m west of Marble Arch. The "Tree" or "Triple Tree" was a form of gallows, consisting of a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three-legged mare" or "three-legged stool"). Multiple ...

  8. Marble Sculpture Bought for $6 and Used as Doorstop Could ...

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    A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...

  9. Marylebone - Wikipedia

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    The name Marylebone originates from an ancient hamlet located near today's Marble Arch, on the eastern banks of the Tyburn, where in 1400 a parish church dedicated to St Mary was built. Since the 12th century, the area had been synonymous with the Tyburn gallows , where public executions regularly took place at the crossroads of the Tyburn and ...