Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Column
Park · Trafalgar Square, England
Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DU, is a Grade I registered park and garden, NHLE 1001362, and the Nelson Monument, or Nelson's Column, is a separate Grade I listing, NHLE 1276052. Charing Cross Underground station is 49 m from the centre of the square.
History
Registered parks and gardens carry a grade, so the square is written as a Grade I registered park and garden rather than as a listed building. Two national collections and a Grade I parish church stand on the square: the National Gallery, NHLE 1066236, the National Portrait Gallery, NHLE 1066285, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, NHLE 1217661. The Grade I statue of James II stands in front of the National Gallery's west wing, NHLE 1217629. Embankment station is 300 m away, Leicester Square 498 m and Piccadilly Circus 580 m.
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Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DU
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