MARBLE ARCH
The Marble Arch in Oxford street, London, facing the site of Tyburn Tree, ivas copied by its architect, John Nash, from tho Arch of Constantine at Home, and it was intended to serve as an entrance to Buckingham Palace, with which it was to be connected by a colonnade. The archway, as first designed, was found to be too small for tho passage of the State coach, but this defect was remedied, and the arch was erected at Buckingham Palace in 1828. It was taken down in ISJO. when the palace w;as enlarged, and it was reerected in the following year at the north-east entrance of Hyde Park, replacing a brick gateway designed by Sir John Soane. When the roadway at this entrance to Hyde Park was altered in 1908 to relieve congestion of traffic tho railings of the park were sot back, and tho arch was left isolated. The traffic now' passes on both sides of it, but never through it. Tho central gates of tho arch are said to be tho largest in Europe, and among the finest. The entire cost of the arch was about £SO 000. The Arc dc Triomphe in Paris cost £116,000
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Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 3
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213MARBLE ARCH Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 3
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