The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column)

The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column), Trafalgar Square WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1276052
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column)
Statutory Address:: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column), Trafalgar Square WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1276052
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column)
Statutory Address 1:: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column), Trafalgar Square WC2

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column), Trafalgar Square WC2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30017 80419

Details

TQ 3080 SW 83/13

CITY OF WESTMINSTER TRAFALGAR SQUARE, WC2 The Nelson Monument (Nelson's Column)

5.2.70

GV I Memorial column and sculpture. 1839-1842, the design by William Railton; the crowning statue by E.H Baily; the bas-relief panels by J.E Carew, J. Ternouth, M.L Watson and W.F Woodington; the lions added 1867, by Sir Edwin Landseer.

Granite and bronze. Tall stepped plinth with lions at angles, lofty coursed pedestal with bronze bas-reliefs and great fluted granite column with bronze Corinthian capital surmounted by the stone statue of Nelson. Noteworthy quality of the four bas-relief panels on the pedestal, depicting Nelson's famous naval victories. Landseer's lions were cast by Baron Marochetti between 1858 and 1867.

Trafalgar Square, known as such from 1830, owes its town planning origin to an initial proposal of Nash's of 1811-12 fully elaborated and laid out as the major executed feature of Nash's Metropolitan - West Strand improvements of 1824-26.

Listing NGR: TQ3001780419

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Legacy System number:: 207254
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
'Survey of London' in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , , Vol. 20, (1979)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.