- London United Kingdom January 16 2024. Full view if Nelsons column and Trafalgar Square with the National Gallery in the background Editorial Stock Photo.
- With its iconic Nelson’s Column, majestic oversized lions and brightly-lit fountains, Trafalgar Square is not just considered the heart of this bustling London...
- On 13 April 1995 Johnny Dawes free-climbed Nelson's Column with Noel Craine, Jerry Moffat and Simon Nadin, and graded the climb as "E6 6b/5a".
- But how long have you spent really contemplating that spiritual centre of London, Nelson's Column? Not a lot? Well then here's your Londonist landmark lesson.
- The actual statue of Nelson, by E H Baily, that tops the column, and the four lions to the base, by Sir Edwin Landseer, were only added in 1867.
- It stands on a Corinthian Column. I feel that Nelson appears to be looking towards the Admiralty Building in Whitehall. The column is made of Dartmoor Granite.
- Nelsons Column. Commemorating Admiral Horatio Nelson, Nelson’s Column stands in the centre of Trafalgar Square, London.
- The height of Nelson’s Column, from the bottom of the pedestal to the top of Nelson’s hat, is 169 ft 3 ins. Nelson himself measures 18 ft 1 ins.
- In July 2006, DBR held a dinner party at the top of Nelson’s Column to celebrate the end of the monumental conservation project.