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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 ]
The arch was originally designed as a triumphal arch to stand at the entrance to Buckingham Palace. It was moved when the east wing of the palace designed by Edward Blore was built, at the request of Queen Victoria whose growing family required additional domestic space. Marble Arch became the entrance to Hyde Park and the Great Exhibition.
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 ...
The Waterloo Vase is a 15-foot (4.6 m) stone urn, situated in the garden of Buckingham Palace in central London. Fashioned from a single piece of Carrara marble, it was initially presented to Napoleon I, who intended to have it carved in celebration of anticipated future military victories.
March: The Marble Arch is relocated to Hyde Park from the entrance to Buckingham Palace. 1 May: The Great Exhibition opens in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. [106] 16 July: A Roman Catholic educational training college, the predecessor of St Mary's University, is established in Hammersmith. The news agency Reuters is in business.
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Still Water is a large public sculpture in bronze of a horse's head by Nic Fiddian-Green, dating to 2011.It is located at Achilles Way, near Hyde Park Corner in central London, and was initially installed at Marble Arch.
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