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Marble Arch
Marble Arch is a triumphal arch of white Carrara marble situated on an island site at the north-east corner of Hyde Park, at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and the Edgware Road. Postcoded W1H, it gives its name to the surrounding area and the nearby London Underground station on the Central line. While it sits at the western boundary of Marylebone's W1H postcode district, it has long functioned as the neighbourhood's western gateway.
The arch was designed by John Nash in 1828 as the principal ceremonial entrance to Buckingham Palace, modelled in part on the Arch of Constantine in Rome. It served in that role only briefly: when Edward Blore's extensions to the Palace were completed, the arch was dismantled stone by stone and re-erected at Cumberland Gate, the north-east entrance to Hyde Park, by architect Thomas Cubitt in 1851. It was intended to serve as an entrance point to the Great Exhibition of that year.
The arch was cut off from the park when road widening works in 1908 left it stranded on a traffic island, a position regularised by further changes in 1961. Only members of the Royal Family and the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery hold the right to pass through the central opening. The site marks the approximate location of the Tyburn gallows, where public executions took place until 1783, and Oxford Street runs directly east from the arch.
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