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Charing Cross history

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Location and etymology

The name of the area, Charing, is derived from the Old English word cierring, referring to a bend in the River Thames .

St Mary Rounceval

The Chapel and Hospital of St Mary Rounceval was founded between 1232 and 1236 . It was an Augustinian house tied to a mother house at Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees . The house and lands were seized for the king in 1379, under a statute “for the forfeiture of the lands of schismatic aliens” Henry V suppressed the ‘alien’ houses in 1414 .

Battle

In 1554, Charing Cross was the site of the final battle of Wyatt’s Rebellion . This was an attempt by Thomas Wyatt and others to overthrow Queen Mary I of England . Wyatt’s army had come from Kent and crossed the river at Hampton Court .

Civil war removal

The Eleanor Cross was pulled down, by order of Parliament, in 1647, at the time of the English Civil War . It became the subject of a popular Royalist ballad: Methinks the common-council shou’d Of it have taken pity .

Replacement

The railway station opened in 1864, fronted on the Strand with the Charing Cross Hotel . In 1865, a replacement cross was commissioned from E. M. Barry by the South Eastern Railway as the centrepiece of the station forecourt . It is not a replica, being of an ornate Victorian Gothic design based on George Gilbert Scott’s Oxford Martyrs’ Memorial (1838)

  

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