At the cross roads the Standard in Cornhill formerly stood. Removed 1674.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Cornhill, 59-60
The plaque is actually high up on the Gracechurch Street frontage. The Cornhill Standard was a water pump, so important that round about 1600 it was sometimes used as the measuring point for distances to London, instead of Queen Eleanor's Cross. Neither Wikipedia norLondonist mention it.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cornhill Standard
A water conduit, and point of measurement. From Wikipedia: "first mechanicall...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cornhill Standard
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
Plaque unveiled by Mick Fowler, president of the Alpine Club.
At about the time that Evans gave the land for these almshouses he was confined for 44 days in a case relating to an obscene publication ...
Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public beheading of Lord William Russell in 1683, after he was convicted ...
Designed and carved by Eric Gill.
In 2013 this plaque was replaced with the one for Eric and Ernie.
