Eleanor Cross Memorial
Charing Cross Station, London WC2 6RQ - England, UK
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The Eleanor Cross is the reason for the name of the area Charing Cross. It comes from the name of the hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife Eleanor of Castile. The area near what is now Charing Cross Station was one of the twelve places that Eleanor’s coffin rested, and a spire was erected at each site after he death in 1290. The Charing Cross spire was destroyed in 1647. The current spire is a replica that was designed by Edward Middleton Barry and was completed in Victorian times.
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