Trinity Square

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Trinity Square Gardens and Tower Hill Memorial
10 Trinity Square and parts of the park
Contemporary depiction of the last execution on north Tower Hill, now Trinity Square.

Trinity Square is a square on Tower Hill in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It lies north of the Towers of London and thus on the eastern border of the City of London .

Trinity Square historically formed the largest open space of the Tower Liberties near the Tower. Meetings were held here as well as Trinity Square was the site of executions of prisoners in the Tower from 1388 to 1747 .

Most of the space has been occupied by Trinity Square Gardens since the late 18th century . The park was created in 1797 and was planned by Samuel Wyatt as a park in front of Trinity House . Trinity Square was reduced in size in 1883 with the construction of the Tower Hill underground station and other transportation structures.

On the edge are 10 Trinity Square , the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority and Trinity House, the seat of the Brethren of the Trinity . Trinity Square No. 43 was the seat of the Christian community Toc H for decades , whose spiritual center is in the nearby All Hallows-by-the-Tower church . The rest of the square is taken up by other office buildings from the 18th to 20th centuries, some of which are listed buildings.

In the park itself there is a memorial by Edwin Lutyens and Edward Maufe for the dead of the merchant navy who died in the wars. There is also a monument to those who were executed on Tower Hill: a raised-bottomed rectangle surrounded by chains. On the east side of the square, a 15 meter long piece of the Roman city wall of Londinium has been preserved. Up to about three meters in height it is the Roman city wall, the construction to seven and a half meters took place in the Middle Ages, partly using stones from the Roman wall.

The Beating of the Bounds, during which a ceremonial procession paces the historic boundaries of the Tower Liberties, takes place across Liberty Square.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pevsner p. 610
  2. ^ A b David Piper, Ronnuala Jervis: The Companion Guide to London (New Edn) Companion Guides, 2001 ISBN 190063936X , pp. 26-27
  3. ↑ a b Pevsner p. 611

literature

  • Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner: London 1, The city of London, 1997, London: Penguin. ISBN 0140710922 , pp. 610-612

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 35.5 "  N , 0 ° 4 ′ 39.4"  W.

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