Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is a memorial to glam-rock musician Marc Bolan, from the band T. Rex. It is located on the site where he died in a car crash in Barnes, London, on 16 September 1977.Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: memorial in Barnes, London
- Also known as: “Bolan’s Rock Shrine”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barnes railway station and Craven Cottage.
Barnes railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barnes railway station is a Grade II listed station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in southwest London, and is in London fare zone 3. It is 7 miles 7 chains down the line from London Waterloo. Barnes railway station is situated 670 feet northwest of Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine.
Craven Cottage
Stadium
Photo: Kenneth Yarham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. The ground's capacity is 29,589; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938. Craven Cottage is situated 1 mile northeast of Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine.
Olympic Studios
Movie theater
Photo: rupertcheek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Olympic Studios was a British independent recording studio based on Church Road, Barnes, London. It is best known for its recordings of many artists throughout the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st century, including Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Led Zeppelin, Ella Fitzgerald, Queen, Ray Charles, the Who, B. Olympic Studios is situated 3,400 feet north of Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barnes and Putney.
Barnes
Town
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, England. It is centred 5.8 miles west south-west of Charing Cross in a bend of the River Thames.
Putney
Suburb
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Putney is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Roehampton
Suburb
Photo: Stevekeiretsu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, sharing its SW15 postcode with neighbouring Putney and Kingston Vale, and takes up a far western strip, running north to south, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine
- Categories: sculpture and historic site
- Location: Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46595° or 51° 27′ 57″ northLongitude
-0.23856° or 0° 14′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C3XFQ86+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1606282275OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q15202817
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In Other Languages
“Marc Bolan’s Rock Shrine” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bolan’s Rock Shrine”
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Highlights include Upper Richmond Road 355 Post Office and Barnes Common.
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