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LocationEngland
Essex
Waltham Abbey
Abbey Gardens
Distance (N) from Greenwich
OS map detailsOS Explorer: 174
OS grid refTL 38241.00776
(538241,200776)
WGS84 lat/long51.688727, -0.001515
TypeArch | Sculpture
Marking date1995
AccessUnrestricted
Greenwich Meridian Marker; England; Essex; Waltham Abbey
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Two pillars frame the gateway and support an arch speckled with star and sun motifs. The panels of the gate link a sextant and a crescent moon, representing time-honoured methods of timekeeping and navigation. The Meridian Gateway offers a transition point between a number of borders – at its simplest it provides an entry point into the Rose Garden, historically it marks the edge of the monastic precinct of the Augustinian Abbey and conceptually it creates a point of access between east and west.

Jon Mills