{The base of the bow window above carries the ornate lettering:}
Bennet Woodcroft
WC2, Southampton Buildings, Old Patent Office
Damaged in WW2 this building was restored in 2007 to the original design for the facade overlooking Staple Inn garden, at least. We know all this because the wonderful Ornamental Passions tells us. The new structure incorporates two little memorials in the form of portrait keystones.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bennet Woodcroft keystone
Inventor, industrial archaeologist, leading figure in patent reform and the f...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bennet Woodcroft keystone
Morley opened this building. With the pupil-less eyes this looks like a death mask in contrast to the sighted Raikes' keystone on the eas...
His ringlets are formed by coins. Loose copies of an old penny are placed at the bottom corners: head (a young Victoria) at the left, tai...
The building projects over the pavement with an arched colonnade for pedestrians. On the keystone of each arch, at the ends and along the...
Our researches have drawn a blank. This looks to us like a death mask, or Churchill with his eyes shut which seems unlikely. Faces on key...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
