Queen Elizabeth II Funeral: history of Wellington Arch, where in London is it - and when was it built?
Here’s what you need to know about Wellingon Arch, including who is memorialised by the monument and where in London it is located.Wellington Arch is located on Apsley Way, near to Hyde Park and very close to Hyde Park Corner underground station.Who is the arch in memory of?
Wellington Arch was originally built to commemorate the Duke of Wellington’s victory over the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century. The arch did have a model of the Duke of Wellington on top of it, but the arch was moved in the 1880s and until the 1890s it had no sculpture on top of it., “in 1891 the sculptor Adrian Jones , a former army veterinary captain who specialised in animal figures, exhibited a magnificent plaster group at the Royal Academy entitled ‘Triumph’, of a quadriga .
The Prince of Wales suggested that it would make a suitable adornment for the rebuilt Wellington Arch.”The park-keeper’s residence closed in 1937, while the police station, said to be the smallest in London, survived until the late 1950s
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