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© Mrs Marion Davies
IoE Number:
427795
Location:
QUEEN ELEANOR MEMORIAL CROSS, CHARING CROSS WC2
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mrs Marion Davies
Date Photographed:
17 October 2000
Date listed:
05 February 1970
Date of last amendment:
05 February 1970
Grade
II*
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CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND WC2
TQ 3080 NW and SW Queen Eleanor
72/151; 83/2 Memorial Cross
5.2.70
GV II*
Neo-Eleanor Cross, 1864-65. Designed by E. M. Barry and carved by the firm of
Thomas Earp. Portland stone on an Aberdeen granite plinth with Mansfield stone
details. Elaborate C14 style based on the form of the Eleanor Crosses but in detail
related to the Oxford Martyrs' Memorial. Octagonal on plan and rising in three main
stages, surmounted by a spire and cross. The shields in the panels of the first
stage copied from the Eleanor Crosses and bearing the arms of England, Castile, Leon
and Ponthieu; above the 2nd parapet are 8 statues of Queen Eleanor in niches similar
to those of the Oxford Martyrs' Memorial. The client was the Charing Cross Hotel
Company, the station forecourt site being some distance from the original Charing
Cross site.
Survey of London; vol XVIII