The Diana Memorial Walk winds its way in a figure-of-eight through four of London’s Royal parks, linking three palaces and two mansions associated with her life - places Diana knew and loved. Marked by 90 handsome circular plaques set into the walkways, the $1.9 million Walk is seven miles long and has been described in the British press as "one of the most magnificent urban parkland walks in the world".
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Sir Richard Westmacott Jr's Wellington Monument (1822) in the southeast corner of Hyde Park consists of a nude Achilles, with cloak draped over his arm, his armour beside him, carrying a leaf-shaped short sword and holding aloft a shield. The statue is elevated on a pediment of plain granite blocks in two colours.
Westmacott also did the pediment sculptures of the British Museum's facade.
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The big white triple gate Grand Entrance to Hyde Park, Hyde Park Corner Screen, at Hyde Park Corner next to Apsley House, was erected from the designs of architect Decimus Burton. It consists of a screen of handsome fluted Ionic columns, with three carriage entrance archways, two foot entrances, a lodge, etc. The extent of the whole frontage is about 107 ft (33 m). The central entrance has a bold projection: the entablature is supported by four columns; and the volutes of the capitals of the outside column on each side of the gateway are formed in an angular direction, so as to exhibit two complete faces to view. The two side gateways, in their elevations, present two insulated Ionic columns, flanked by antae. All these entrances are finished by a blocking, the sides of the central one being decorated with a beautiful frieze, representing a naval and military triumphal procession. This frieze was designed by Mr. Henning, junior, the son of Mr. Henning who was well known for his models of the Elgin marbles.
The gates were manufactured by Messrs. Bramah. They are of iron, bronzed, and fixed or hung to the piers by rings of gun-metal. The design consists of a beautiful arrangement of the Greek honeysuckle ornament; the parts being well defined, and the raffles of the leaves brought out in a most extraordinary manner.
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The Royal Artillery Memorial is a large stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War I. Designed by Charles Jagger and dedicated in 1925, the memorial is in the form of a giant sculpture of a howitzer upon a large plinth of Portland marble, with stone reliefs depicting the reality of war. There are four bronze figures of artillery soldiers on the memorial as part of scenes relecting the reality of war. One is of an artilleryman reading letters from home. One is of a dead artilleryman, his body covered by a greatcoat. Underneath are inscribed the words: "Here was a Royal fellowship of Death" from Shakespeare's Henry V.
The main inscription reads:
'In Proud Memory Of The
Forty-Nine-Thousand-Seventy-Six
Of All Ranks Of The
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Who Gave Their Lives for King
And Country in the Great War
1914—1919'
In 1949, three bronze panels (by Darcy Braddell) were added in memory of the 30,000 of the Royal Artillery killed in World War II. It is also purported that if the artillery piece were able to be fired, the barrel of the sculpture is angled and directed such that a shell would fall in the Somme region of France.
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The Royal Artillery Memorial is a large stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War I. Designed by Charles Jagger and dedicated in 1925, the memorial is in the form of a giant sculpture of a howitzer upon a large plinth of Portland marble, with stone reliefs depicting the reality of war. There are four bronze figures of artillery soldiers on the memorial as part of scenes relecting the reality of war. One is of an artilleryman reading letters from home. One is of a dead artilleryman, his body covered by a greatcoat. Underneath are inscribed the words: "Here was a Royal fellowship of Death" from Shakespeare's Henry V.
The main inscription reads:
'In Proud Memory Of The
Forty-Nine-Thousand-Seventy-Six
Of All Ranks Of The
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Who Gave Their Lives for King
And Country in the Great War
1914—1919'
In 1949, three bronze panels (by Darcy Braddell) were added in memory of the 30,000 of the Royal Artillery killed in World War II. It is also purported that if the artillery piece were able to be fired, the barrel of the sculpture is angled and directed such that a shell would fall in the Somme region of France.
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