Nelson's Column - London, UK
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N 51° 30.460 W 000° 07.671
30U E 699311 N 5710193
Nelson's Column is located in Trafalgar Square and is a memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson who died at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
Waymark Code: WMDVZ6
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/28/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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Wikipedia (visit link) further informs us:

"The monument was constructed between 1840 and 1843 to a design by William Railton at a cost of £47,000. It is a column of the Corinthian order built from Dartmoor granite. The Craigleith sandstone statue of Nelson is by E. H. Baily and the four bronze lions on the base, added in 1867, were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer.

The pedestal is decorated with four bronze relief panels, each 18 feet square, cast from captured French guns. They depict the Battle of Cape St Vincent, the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen and the Death of Nelson at Trafalgar. The sculptors were Musgrave Watson, William F Woodington, John Ternouth and John Edward Carew respectively.

It was refurbished in 2006 at a cost of £420,000, at which time it was surveyed and found to be 4.4 metres shorter than previously supposed. The whole monument is 169 ft 3ins (51.59 metres) tall from the bottom of the pedestal to the top of Nelson's hat."
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