Marble Arch (monument)
In Marble Arch, (monument) you’re stepping into a story that begins not in a city square, but in a king’s plan. Designed by John Nash and begun in 1827, this white Carrara-marble triumphal arch was conceived as the state entrance to Buckingham Palace’s forecourt, echoing Roman and Parisian models like the Arch of Constantine and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. Construction paused with King George IV’s death in 1830 and resumed in 1832 under Edward Blore, who trimmed Nash’s original attic stage and omitted its sculpture. The arch stood where the palace’s central projection would later rise, and in 1851, by Decimus Burton’s initiative, it was relocated to its current site near the northeast corner of Hyde Park, a good distance from its royal beginnings. …
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