Edith Cavell Memorial
The Edith Cavell Memorial is an outdoor memorial to Edith Cavell by Sir George Frampton, in London, United Kingdom. The memorial is sited in St Martin's Place, beside the A400, just outside the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square, north of St Martin-in-the-Fields, east of the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, and south of the London Coliseum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: memorial in London, England, UK
- Inscription: “Edith Cavell Brussels Dawn October 12th 1915 patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leicester Square and National Gallery.
Leicester Square
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
National Gallery
Art gallery
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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. National Gallery is situated 400 feet southwest of Edith Cavell Memorial.
National Portrait Gallery
Art gallery
Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown and Covent Garden.
Chinatown
Suburb
Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.
Covent Garden
Photo: Hamster28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.
West End of London
Locality
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West End of London is a district of Central London, England, in the London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops…
Edith Cavell Memorial
- Categories: memorial, statue, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.50938° or 51° 30′ 34″ northLongitude
-0.12717° or 0° 7′ 38″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9C3XGV5F+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1571931922OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
12402344Wikidata ID
Q18159833
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Japanese—“Edith Cavell Memorial” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال اديث كافيل التذكارى”
- French: “Statue d’Edith Cavell”
- Hungarian: “Edith Cavell-emlékmű (London)”
- Hungarian: “Edith Cavell-emlékmű”
- Japanese: “イーディス・キャヴェル記念碑”
- Japanese: “彼女の記念碑”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Edith Cavell Memorial”. Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.