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72-458: Hyde Park Corner is between Knightsbridge , Belgravia and Mayfair in London , England . It primarily refers to a major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park , that was originally planned by architect Decimus Burton . The junction includes a broad green-space roundabout in its centre, which is now the setting for Burton's triumphal Wellington Arch . Six streets converge at

144-617: A 16,000 ft two-storey penthouse in One Hyde Park sold for £140 million. Land in Knightsbridge is for the most part identified by City of Westminster (and by the RBKC , where former Brompton parts are included) as strengthened planning law -governed Conservation Areas : 'Albert Gate', 'Belgravia', 'Knightsbridge' and 'Knightsbridge Green'. Properties must be offered here by developers as refurbished flats or houses meeting

216-581: A 94-year lease. Fourteen of Britain's two hundred most expensive streets are in the neighbourhood, as defined by The Times . In February 2007, the world's most expensive apartment at One Hyde Park , sold off plan for £100 million, bought by a Qatari prince, and another apartment at the same place in February 2009, at almost the same price, was bought by a Qatari prince. Apartments of this secure, optimum specification, address equate to in excess of £4,000 per square foot (£43,000 per square metre). In 2014,

288-503: A colossal equestrian statue should be placed upon it... I fear that if this appropriation of the building should be decided upon, a proposition would soon be made for removing altogether the facades of columns, the slender proportions of which would appear so incongruous and out of proportion compared with the prodigious dimensions of the statue ". Burton had realized that the disciples of Pugin and advocates of Pugin's anti-classicism would remove all classical elements from his arch if permitted

360-551: A gilded chariot. The main inscription used to be ornamented by letters made of perhaps silver, gold or some other metal. The original inscription is attached to the east side of the Arch. It is written in Roman square capitals and reads: SENATVS POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS DIVO·TITO·DIVI·VESPASIANI·F(ILIO) VESPASIANO·AVGVSTO (Senatus Populusque Romanus divo Tito divi Vespasiani filio Vespasiano Augusto), which means The Senate and

432-429: A line immediately to the east of Apsley House that required demolition of houses on Piccadilly . This left Apsley House on an island site. The InterContinental London hotel was subsequently built on the cleared site between the new route of Park Lane and Hamilton Place. At part of the same scheme, a tunnel was constructed beneath the junction to allow traffic to flow freely between Knightsbridge and Piccadilly. As

504-583: A non-tabloid paper in 2008. The underlying landowners of the few streets making up, without any dispute, Knightsbridge are the Duke of Westminster , Lord Cadogan and the Wellcome Trust with a minority of the freeholds to houses in each street sold to others . Red-brick Queen Anne revival buildings form most of the Cadogan Estates , whereas white stucco-fronted houses are mostly found on

576-462: A pamphlet that advocated the removal of the Wellington statue from the arch in the event of the removal of the arch to another location: Fearon contended that the arch should be 'relieved once and for all of its unsightly load'. The campaign led by Fearon was successful: Wyatt's incongruous statue was removed to Aldershot, and its place on Burton's arch, which was moved to Constitution Hill in 1883,

648-654: A result, the area around the Arch became a large traffic island, mostly laid to grass, and accessible only by pedestrian underpassess, and formally ceased to be part of the Green Park. Subsequent changes to the road layout in the 1990s reinstated a route between Hyde Park and the Green Park for pedestrians, cyclists and horseriders using surface-level crossings. The traffic island includes a smaller equestrian statue of Wellington by Joseph Edgar Boehm —unveiled in 1888—the Machine Gun Corps Memorial ,

720-595: A robbery worth £60 million. In 2005, 22-year-old beautician Clare Bernal was gunned down by her ex -boyfriend Michal Pech on the shopfloor of Harvey Nichols in front of colleagues and shoppers before Pech fatally turned the gun on himself. The case attracted extensive coverage in the media, and Clare's mother Patricia has since led a campaign to address flaws in the system, which allowed her daughter's murder to happen. Many residential buildings are heavily covered by CCTV and are staffed by security guards, and railings or bars on lower floor windows are commonplace. To

792-472: Is "bridge of the young men or retainers," from the Old English cniht (genitive case plural –a) and brycg . Cniht , in pre-Norman days, did not have the later meaning of a warrior on horseback, but simply meant a youth. The allusion may be to a place where cnihtas congregated: bridges and wells seem always to have been favourite gathering places of young people, and the original bridge was where one of

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864-517: Is even worse than we anticipated - the destruction of the arch by the statue, and of the statue by its elevation on the arch, more complete. Every post brings us letters urging renewed efforts to remove the figure to another site . The contestation about the prospective removal of the statue became national. However, the Government failed to remove the statue, despite that they had professed, when it had been placed, that they would do so if it provoked

936-461: Is large with both fluted and unfluted columns, the latter being a result of 19th-century restoration. The Arch of Titus measures: 15.4 meters (50 ft) in height, 13.5 meters (44 ft) in width, 4.75 meters (15.5 ft) in depth. The inner archway is 8.3 meters (27 ft) in height, and 5.36 meters (17.5 ft) in width. The spandrels on the upper left and right of the arch contain personifications of victory as winged women. Between

1008-465: Is located in Knightsbridge. The district and the road itself, which is the only definitive place within it, is small, which assists its cachet: more than half of the zone closest to its tube station (and nearer to no others) is Knightsbridge Underground station . Knightsbridge had in its park side, east and west gold-coloured blocks of exceptional wealth in philanthropist Charles Booth 's late Victorian Poverty Map , formerly excluding Brompton Road to

1080-508: Is referenced in the Rolling Stones song " Play with Fire ", released in 1965. Knightsbridge is used as an indicator of a character's affluence, as opposed to the more working class Stepney . According to season 3 episode 'Happy New Year,' Knightsbridge is the setting of the television series " Absolutely Fabulous ." St. Columba's Church in Knightsbridge is the setting of a wedding in the 1996 episode 'The Last Shout.' Knightsbridge

1152-449: Is referenced in the story book Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman as a place the protagonists need to cross to go to the next floating market. "The Knightsbridge" is used as metaphor for the night and its dangers they need to pass through. In the 2017 film The Foreigner , Knightsbridge is the location of a detonated bomb that sets the plot in motion. On his 2017 mixtape Working on Dying Swedish rapper Bladee references Knightsbridge in

1224-481: Is significant in that it is one of the first examples of divinities and humans being present in one scene together. This contrasts with the panels of the Ara Pacis , where humans and divinities are separated. The sculpture of the outer faces of the two great piers was lost when the Arch of Titus was incorporated in medieval defensive walls. The attic of the arch was originally crowned by more statuary, perhaps of

1296-585: The Dictionary of National Biography that 'thanks to royal and other influential patronage, Wyatt enjoyed a reputation and practice to which his mediocre abilities hardly entitled him'. Trench, and his patron John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland , had told the public subscribers to the statue that the statue would be placed on top of Burton's triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner: Burton expressed his opposition to this proposal 'as plainly and as vehemently as his nature allowed' consistently over successive years, because

1368-617: The A315 road . West of Rutland Gardens, the road becomes Kensington Road . It is served by Knightsbridge station on the Piccadilly line , and Sloane Square station on the District and Circle lines . Brompton Road station closed in 1934. Eric Coates uses Knightsbridge as the setting of a march for the 3rd movement of his London Suite (1933). It gained popularity through the radio show In Town Tonight (1933–1960). Knightsbridge

1440-466: The Grosvenor Estate , designed by architect Thomas Cubitt . The Brompton Oratory , a place of Catholic worship, marks one of the transitions into Kensington , but Belgravia and Brompton have competing mapped neighbourhood status in the east and south of the neighbourhood, and as they have no eponymously named tube stations or historic parish boundaries, their limits are arbitrary and

1512-576: The Middle Ages , the Frangipani family added a second story to the vault, converting it into a fortified tower; beam holes from the construction remain in the panels. A chamber was built in the upper half, and the roadway was lowered to expose the travertine foundations. Pope Paul IV (papacy 1555-9), having established the Roman Ghetto in the bull Cum nimis absurdum , made the arch

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1584-586: The River Westbourne , which is now an underground river . It is recorded that the citizens of London met Matilda of England at the Knight's Bridge in 1141. From 1885 to 1887, as a result of the opening of trade between Britain and the Far East , Humphreys' Hall in Knightsbridge hosted an exhibition of Japanese culture in a setting built to resemble a traditional Japanese village. The exhibition

1656-562: The Roman revival Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, which delighted the King and his Committee, and which architectural historian Guy Williams describes as 'one of the most pleasing architectural works that have survived from the neo-classical age'. The triumphal arch became the Wellington Arch on Constitution Hill facing Green Park, which has been described as 'one of London's best loved landmarks'. Burton's original design for

1728-828: The Royal Artillery Memorial , the Australian War Memorial and the New Zealand War Memorial . Other monuments in the vicinity of Hyde Park Corner include Adrian Jones's Monument to the Cavalry of the Empire (off the west side of Park Lane), Alexander Munro 's Boy and Dolphin statue (in a rose garden parallel to Rotten Row , going west from Hyde Park Corner), the Queen Elizabeth Gate (behind Apsley House),

1800-671: The Walton's Restaurant bombing . In 1980, the Iranian Embassy siege took place, lasting several days. It ended when the Special Air Service stormed the building, which was on live television. In 1983, three Christmas shoppers and three Metropolitan Police officers were killed by an IRA car bomb outside Harrods . In 1987, the Knightsbridge Security Deposit centre was the target of

1872-729: The Wellington Monument (off the west side of Park Lane), and a statue of Lord Byron (on a traffic island opposite the Wellington Monument). The term is often erroneously used for Speakers' Corner , at the north-eastern corner of Hyde Park. Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London , south of Hyde Park . It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside

1944-660: The West End . Knightsbridge is also the name of the roadway which runs near the south side of Hyde Park from Hyde Park Corner . Knightsbridge is an affluent district in London with a rich history and high property prices. The name has Old English origins, meaning "bridge of the young men or retainers." The area was initially divided between local authorities and has been home to several parishes. Knightsbridge has been associated with exclusive shops including Harrod’s and Harvey Nichols , banks catering to wealthy individuals, renowned restaurants, and high-end salons. Property prices in

2016-455: The 'monstrous carbuncles' so disliked by the present Prince of Wales - if the attacked party [Decimus Burton] had been a little more pugnacious, and so better equipped to stand his ground ". During 1882, traffic congestion at Hyde Park Corner motivated advocacy for Burton's triumphal arch to be moved to the top of Constitution Hill to create space for traffic. In response to this advocacy, Burton's great-nephew Francis Fearon compiled and published

2088-623: The 16th century. It is the inspiration for the Arc de Triomphe in Paris . It holds an important place in art history , being the focus of Franz Wickhoff 's appreciation of Roman art in contrast to the then-prevailing view. Based on the style of sculptural details, Domitian 's favored architect Rabirius , sometimes credited with the Colosseum , may have executed the arch. Without contemporary documentation, however, attributions of Roman buildings on

2160-524: The 18th century townhouse of the 1st Duke of Wellington , hero of Waterloo . During the second half of the 1820s, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and King George IV resolved that Hyde Park, and the area around it, must be renovated to the extent of the splendour of rival European capital cities, and that the essence of the new arrangement would be a triumphal approach to Buckingham Palace , which had been recently completed. The committee of

2232-476: The Crown, to offer any other site, but the statue's subscribers rejected all alternative proposals. Every single MP except Sir Frederick Trench wanted the statue to be placed elsewhere. Canning wrote that 'the remonstrances which reach Her Majesty's Government against the proposed appropriation of the arch are so many and so strong, the representations of its architect, Mr. Burton, in the same sense, are so earnest, and

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2304-1036: The Roman people (dedicate this) to the deified Titus Vespasian Augustus, son of the deified Vespasian." The opposite side of the Arch of Titus received new inscriptions after it was restored during the pontificate of Pope Pius VII by Giuseppe Valadier in 1821. The restoration was intentionally made in travertine to differentiate between the original and the restored portions. The inscription reads: INSIGNE · RELIGIONIS · ATQVE · ARTIS · MONVMENTVM VETVSTATE · FATISCENS PIVS · SEPTIMVS · PONTIFEX · MAX(IMVS) NOVIS · OPERIBVS · PRISCVM · EXEMPLAR · IMITANTIBVS FVLCIRI · SERVARIQVE · IVSSIT ANNO · SACRI · PRINCIPATVS · EIVS · XXIIII (Insigne religionis atque artis, monumentum, vetustate fatiscens: Pius Septimus, Pontifex Maximus, novis operibus priscum exemplar imitantibus fulciri servarique iussit. Anno sacri principatus eius XXIV), which means (This) monument, remarkable in terms of both religion and art, had weakened from age: Pius

2376-794: The Walton's Restaurant bombing, and the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery. It is served by the Knightsbridge station on the Piccadilly line and the Sloane Square station on the District and Circle lines. Knightsbridge is an ancient name, spelt in a variety of ways in Saxon and Old English, such as Cnihtebricge (c. 1050); Knichtebrig (1235); Cnichtebrugge (13th century); and Knyghtesbrugg (1364). The meaning

2448-455: The absolute objection of Burton, was mounted with an ungainly equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington by Matthew Cotes Wyatt , the son of the then recently deceased James Wyatt , who had been selected by statue's commissioner, and one of its few subsequent advocates, Sir Frederick Trench . Matthew Cotes Wyatt was not competent: Guy Williams contends that he was 'not noticeably talented', and

2520-577: The area was renowned as the haunt of highwaymen , robbers and cutthroats targeting travellers on the western route out of London, but its fortunes were transformed in the 19th century. However, the area has been a target of several high-profile crimes. In September and October 1975, the Spaghetti House siege happened. In November 1975, two civilians were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in

2592-530: The aristocratic residents of London. A writer in The Builder asked Lord Canning , the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, to ban the project: " We have learnt, and can state positively, that Mr. Burton has the strongest objection possible against placing the group in question on the archway... and that he is taking no part whatever in the alteration proposed to be made in the upper part of

2664-544: The aversion which it had provoked. Foreign intellectuals who visited London identified the incongruous fusion of the statue and the arch as 'spectacular confirmation' of the 'artistic ignorance of the English'. Architectural historian Guy Williams writes that " [the] arch at Hyde Park Corner is a visible reminder of one of the fiercest attacks that have ever been launched in the worlds of art and architecture. The face of London might have been very different now - freer, perhaps, of

2736-430: The background in blue. In 2012 the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project discovered remains of yellow ochre paint on the menorah relief. The north inner panel depicts Titus as triumphator attended by various genii and lictors , who carry fasces . A helmeted Amazonian, Valour, leads the quadriga or four horsed chariot, which carries Titus. Winged Victory crowns him with a laurel wreath . The juxtaposition

2808-590: The basis of style are considered shaky. The brother and successor of Titus built the arch despite being described as hateful towards Titus by Cassius Dio . The medieval Latin travel guide Mirabilia Urbis Romae noted the monument, writing: "the arch of the Seven Lamps of Titus and Vespasian; [where Moses' candlestick is having seven branches, with the Ark, at the foot of the Cartulary Tower"]. During

2880-611: The celebration of the House of Hanover , national pride, and the nation's heroes. The renovation of Hyde Park, Green Park , and St James's Park , began, in 1825, with the demarcation of new drives and pathways, subsequent to which Burton designed new lodges and gates, viz. Cumberland Gate, Stanhope Gate, Grosvenor Gate, the Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, and, later, the Prince of Wales's Gate, Knightsbridge , in

2952-406: The classical style. There were no authoritative precedents for such buildings, which required windows and chimney stacks, in the classical style, and, in the words of Guy Williams, 'Burton's reticent treatment of the supernumerary features' and of the cast iron gates and railings, was 'greatly admired'. At Hyde Park Corner, the King required that 'some great ceremonial outwork that would be worthy of

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3024-559: The death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus's official deification or consecratio and the victory of Titus together with their father, Vespasian , over the Jewish rebellion in Judaea . The arch contains panels depicting the triumphal procession celebrated in 71 AD after the Roman victory culminating in the fall of Jerusalem , and provides one of the few contemporary depictions of artifacts from Herod's Temple . Although

3096-486: The district are among the highest in the world, with the most expensive apartment at One Hyde Park selling for £100 million in 2007. Knightsbridge is located between Exhibition Road and Sloane Street, with its southern border along Brompton Road , Beauchamp Place, and the western section of Pont Street. The district has been a target for high-profile crimes throughout history, including the Spaghetti House siege,

3168-652: The district fades into Chelsea while Belgravia lies to the east and South Kensington to the west. Knightsbridge is home to many expensive shops, including the department stores Harrods and Harvey Nichols , and flagship stores of many British and international fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik , and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that cater to wealthy individuals. Some of London's most renowned restaurants are here, as well as many exclusive hair and beauty salons, antiques and antiquities dealers, and chic bars and clubs. One of Bonhams auction houses

3240-507: The enhanced architectural demands in the local Conservation Areas policy of the Local Plan. Within each many buildings are covered by the similar but separate requirements of being listed . Growing demand has since 2000 persuaded the authority to revise its planning policies to permit roof terraces and basement extensions, for residential facilities from leisure suites to private nightclubs, a degree of economic liberalisation documented by

3312-640: The exhibition, which is said to have inspired him to write The Mikado . When the Mikado requests of Ko-Ko the address of his son (Nanki-Poo) after Ko-Ko tells the Mikado that Nanki-Poo has "gone abroad", Ko-Ko replies that Nanki-Poo has gone to Knightsbridge. Knightsbridge is east of Exhibition Road and west of Sloane Street . Brompton Road , Beauchamp Place and the western section of Pont Street serve roughly as its southern border together with their adjacent gardens and squares such as Ovington Square , Lennox Gardens and Cadogan Square . South of this area,

3384-565: The four London buildings of Hill House School are located here at Cadogan Gardens and Hans Place . Knightsbridge takes its name from the road that runs along the south side of Hyde Park , west from Hyde Park Corner , spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . Up to Brompton Road , it is a part of the A4 arterial road , while the remainder is part of

3456-707: The impressive Brompton Oratory (Catholic church, Brompton Road) and the CoE Holy Trinity Church behind it, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Exhibition Road, the Russian Orthodox Church in Ennismore Gardens, St Columba's Church of Scotland, Pont Street , and Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche . The former St Saviour's church, designed by George Basevi , is now a private home. Notably, two of

3528-438: The junction: Park Lane (from the north), Piccadilly (northeast), Constitution Hill (southeast), Grosvenor Place (south), Grosvenor Crescent (southwest) and Knightsbridge (west). Hyde Park Corner tube station served by the Piccadilly line has many accessways around the junction as do its notable monuments. Immediately to the north of the junction is Burton's Ionic Screen gateway entrance to Hyde Park, and Apsley House ,

3600-449: The new palace that lay to its rear', and accepted Burton's consequent proposal for a sequence comprising a gateway and a classical screen, and a triumphal arch, which would enable those approaching Buckingham Palace from the north to ride or drive first through the screen and then through the arch, before turning left to descend Constitution Hill and enter the forecourt of Buckingham Palace through John Nash 's Marble Arch . The screen became

3672-662: The north of the area, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Household Cavalry , with a distinctive 33-storey tower by Sir Basil Spence . The Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department is based in Walton Street . The Embassy of Libya is located at 15 Knightsbridge, the Embassy of France at no 58 and the Embassy of Kuwait at 2 Albert Gate, just off Knightsbridge. On the religious side it contains

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3744-401: The old roads to the west crossed the River Westbourne . However, there is possibly a more specific reference to the important cnihtengild ('guild of cnihtas ‘) in 11th-century London and to the limits of its jurisdiction (certainly Knightsbridge was one of the limits of the commercial jurisdiction of the City of London in the 12th century). Knightsbridge was a hamlet located primarily in

3816-407: The opinion of every other eminent architect, artist, or other competent authority who has been consulted on the subject is so decided [against the placing of the Wellington statue on the arch] ". Decimus Burton himself wrote, " The arch would, I consider, suffer greatly in importance if the colossal statue in question be placed there, because it would become a mere pedestal. The want of proportion in

3888-413: The opportunity to do so. The Government placed the Wellington statue on the arch in autumn 1846: Williams contends that the product was 'ridiculous'. The Builder contended, down, unquestionably, it must come. As the network of timber is removed, spar by spar, from before it, so do the folly of the experiment, the absurdity of the conjunction, and the greatness of the sacrifice become apparent. Its effect

3960-516: The original marble. The restoration was a model for the countryside of Porta Pia . At an unknown date, a local ban on Jews walking under the arch was placed on the monument by Rome's Chief Rabbinate ; this was rescinded on the foundation of the State of Israel in 1947, and at a Hanukkah event in 1997 the change was made public. The arch was never mentioned in Rabbinic literature . The arch

4032-545: The panels are not explicitly stated as illustrating this event, they closely parallel the narrative of the Roman procession described a decade prior in Josephus ' The Jewish War . It became a symbol of the Jewish diaspora , and the menorah depicted on the arch served as the model for the menorah used as the emblem of the State of Israel . The arch has provided the general model for many triumphal arches erected since

4104-517: The parish of St Margaret (detached) and partly in St Martin in the Fields (the part that later became St George Hanover Square ). It also extended into the parishes of Kensington and Chelsea . It was therefore divided between local authorities from a very early time. In the time of Edward I , the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It was named after a crossing of

4176-602: The place of a yearly oath of submission , forcing Jewish elders to kiss the feet of each newly-crowned pope. In 1716, Adriaan Reland published his De spoliis templi Hierosolymitani in arcu Titiano Romae conspicuis , in English: "The spoils of the temple of Jerusalem visible on the Arch of Titan at Rome". It was one of the first buildings sustaining a modern restoration, starting with Raffaele Stern in 1817 and continued by Valadier under Pius VII in 1821, with new capitals and with travertine masonry , distinguishable from

4248-722: The project, led by the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool , and advised by Charles Arbuthnot , President of the Board of Commissioners of Woods and Forests, selected Decimus Burton as the project's architect: in 1828, when giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Government's spending on public works, Arbuthnot explained that he had nominated Burton 'having seen in the Regent's Park , and elsewhere, works which pleased my eye, from their architectural beauty and correctness'. Burton intended to create an urban space dedicated to

4320-541: The proposed surmount, compared with the columns and other details of the architecture, would show that they had been designed by different hands, and without reference for each other. ...I have desired to witness the completion of this building, as originally designed by me, and as approved by the Lords of the Treasury , yet I would prefer that the building should remain for the present in its forlorn and bare state, rather than

4392-406: The spandrels is the keystone , on which there stands a female on the east side and a male on the west side. The soffit of the axial archway is deeply coffered with a relief of the apotheosis of Titus at the center. The sculptural program also includes two panel reliefs lining the passageway within the arch. Both commemorate the joint triumph celebrated by Titus and his father Vespasian in

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4464-465: The structure to prepare it to receive the pedestal... Mr. Burton, through the mildness which characterizes him, has not expressed this opinion so loudly and so publicly as he ought to have done.... an opinion prevails very generally, that he is a party to the proceedings, and this has induced many to be silent who would otherwise have spoken... ". The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel , contended that another site would be preferable, and proposed, on behalf of

4536-630: The summer of 71. The south inner panel depicts the spoils taken from the Temple in Jerusalem . The golden candelabrum or Menorah is the main focus and is carved in deep relief. Other sacred objects being carried in the triumphal procession are the Gold Trumpets, the fire pans for removing the ashes from the altar, and the Table of Showbread . These spoils were likely originally colored gold, with

4608-445: The title and lyrics of a song. Bars, clubs and restaurants of Knightsbridge frequently feature in the Channel4 's reality tv show Made in Chelsea . Arch of Titus The Arch of Titus ( Italian : Arco di Tito ; Latin : Arcus Tītī ) is a 1st-century AD honorific arch , located on the Via Sacra , Rome , just to the south-east of the Roman Forum . It was constructed in c. 81 AD by Emperor Domitian shortly after

4680-539: The triangular salient of Brompton, administratively in Kensington, as part of South Kensington , once coloured mid-wealth by Charles Booth, is now blurred with 'Knightsbridge', into which it long projected. Brompton is only used when the postcode and/or Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is being emphasised, rather than the modern Central London 'district' definitions, which suggest Knightsbridge or South Kensington, either tube station , being at most 350 m away and thus can be easily found on all maps. For centuries,

4752-426: The triumphal arch, which was modelled on the Arch of Titus at Rome, on which the central and side blocks of the Screen had been modelled, was more technically perfect, and coherent with the Screen, than that of the arch that was built: this original design, however, was rejected by the Committee—who had envisaged a design based on the Arch of Constantine (on which Nash's Marble Arch had been modelled)—because it

4824-455: The ungainly statue would 'disfigure' his arch, for which it was much too large, and the surrounding neighbourhood, because it would have to be placed, contrary to all classical precedent, across, instead of parallel with, the roadway under the arch. Burton had envisaged that his arch would be topped with only a small quadriga whose horses would have been parallel with the road under the arch. Burton's objections were extensively endorsed by most of

4896-443: The west but extending well into Piccadilly, St James's to the east. Knightsbridge is home to many of the world's richest people and has some of the highest property prices in the world. In 2014 a terrace of 427m sold for £ 15,950,000, a home in Montpelier Square . The average asking price for all the properties in slightly wider SW7 was £4,348,911 (as at Autumn 2014). On-street parking spaces have sold for as much as £300,000 for

4968-408: Was created; this separated the space containing the Arch from the rest of the Green Park. Following the passage of the Park Lane Improvement Act 1958, Park Lane was widened in the early 1960s. For most of its length this was achieved by converting the former East Carriage Drive of Hyde Park into the northbound lanes of a dual carriageway, but at Hyde Park Corner, all lanes of traffic came together on

5040-434: Was not sufficiently ostentatious. Burton created a new design, 'to pander to the majestic ego', which was much larger and modelled on a fragment found in the Ancient Roman Forum , which was accepted on 14 January 1826, and subsequently built as the present Wellington Arch . The arch at Constitution Hill was left devoid of decorative sculpture as a result of the moratorium in 1828 on public building work, and, instead, despite

5112-402: Was occupied by a Quadriga by Captain Adrian Jones . Jones' statue is not nearly as elegant as Burton's designed statue intended for the arch, but it is more coherent with the arch than Wyatt's statue, and its figures, unlike those of Wyatt's statue, are aligned with the roadway under the arch. The boundary of Buckingham Palace Garden was moved south, and a new road named Duke of Wellington Place

5184-531: Was very popular, with over 250,000 visitors during its early months. Japanese artisans illustrated "the manners, customs and art-industries of their country, attired in their national and picturesque costumes. Magnificently decorated and illuminated Buddhist temple. Five o'clock tea in the Japanese tea-house. Japanese Musical and other Entertainments. Every-day Life as in Japan". W. S. Gilbert and his wife attended

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