The Greenwich Meridian
…where east meets west
| Location | England Essex Waltham Abbey |
| Abbey Gardens | |
| Distance (N) from Greenwich | |
| OS map details | OS Explorer: 174 |
| OS grid ref | TL 38241.00776 (538241,200776) |
| WGS84 lat/long | 51.688727, -0.001515 |
| Type | Arch | Sculpture |
| Marking date | 1995 |
| Access | Unrestricted |
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Two pillars frame the gateway and support an arch speckled with star and sun motifs. The panels of the gate link a sextant and a crescent moon, representing time-honoured methods of timekeeping and navigation. The Meridian Gateway offers a transition point between a number of borders – at its simplest it provides an entry point into the Rose Garden, historically it marks the edge of the monastic precinct of the Augustinian Abbey and conceptually it creates a point of access between east and west.
Jon Mills