Public Record Office

national archive service of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003
Organization building Q1505035
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Public Record Office

Summary

Public Record Office is a building[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Public Record Office is located in City of London[3].
  • Public Record Office is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Public Record Office's image is recorded as Kclssa.jpg[5].
  • Public Record Office's instance of is recorded as building[6].
  • Public Record Office's instance of is recorded as national archives[7].
  • Public Record Office's architect is recorded as James Pennethorne[8].
  • Public Record Office's architectural style is recorded as Gothic Revival[9].
  • Public Record Office's followed by is recorded as UK National Archives[10].
  • Public Record Office's ISNI is recorded as 0000000121929175[11].
  • Public Record Office's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157042679[12].
  • Public Record Office's GND ID is recorded as 35584-7[13].
  • Public Record Office's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n80126102[14].
  • Public Record Office's Union List of Artist Names ID is recorded as 500256386[15].
  • Public Record Office's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11885250n[16].
  • Public Record Office's IdRef ID is recorded as 026644495[17].
  • Public Record Office's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA01219320[18].
  • Public Record Office's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 35145642[19].
  • Public Record Office's foundational text is recorded as Public Record Office Act 1838[20].
  • +1838-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Public Record Office[21].
  • Public Record Office's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.5153, 'lon': -0.1106}[22].
  • Public Record Office's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01g0b_[23].
  • Public Record Office's Open Library ID is recorded as OL1020014A[24].
  • Public Record Office's Open Library ID is recorded as OL82345A[25].
  • Public Record Office's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as kn20030529009[26].
  • Public Record Office's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 000056213[27].

Body

Founding

+1838-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Public Record Office[21].

Identity

Public Record Office's followed by is recorded as UK National Archives[10].

Why It Matters

Public Record Office ranks in the top 3% of building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . nationalarchives.gov.uk. nationalarchives.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . openlibrary.org. Retrieved . openlibrary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 29d ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by UK National Archives
    Architect James Pennethorne
    Inception
    Wolfram language entity code Entity["Building", "PublicRecordOffice::zfqx3"]
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P4839]]: Entity["Building", "PublicRecordOffice::zfqx3"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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