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Admiralty Arch

The gate from Trafalgar Square to the Mall, built as a memorial to Queen Victoria, with a nose on the inside.

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Photo by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Royal London.

Aston Webb designed it and it opened in 1912, the last piece of Edward VII's memorial to his mother: the Mall was widened and replanted as a processional way from here to the Victoria Memorial at the palace end. The central gate opens only for state occasions. Inside the northernmost arch, at about head height for a rider, is a small bronze nose set into the wall, put there by an artist in 1997 and left. The building was the Admiralty's offices and flats for a century and is being turned into a hotel.

Where
The Mall, SW1A 2WH
Nearest station
Charing Cross · 3 min walk

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