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A new setting for the Marble Arch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Andrew Saint
Andrew Saint
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University of CambridgeDepartment of Architecture1 Scroope TerraceCambridge CB2 1PXUnited Kingdom
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Abstract

This paper suggests the removal of one of London's most conspicuous and familiar monuments, the Marble Arch, to a site in Park Square, Regent's Park, where it would serve to link the axis of Portland Place with the Broad Walk, as evidently intended by Nash. Not only is the current site of the Arch not the original one, the author argues, but its whole setting and environment have been compromised since it was moved there from the front of Buckingham Palace in 1851. Fresh research into the history of the Marble Arch is presented in the article, with particular regard to its experimental use of exposed marble in the British climate.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Autumn 1996 , pp. 44 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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