Erection date: 1676
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This is Devereux Court, 1676.
WC2, Devereux Court
This bust was brought to our attention by Discovering London, where its claim to carry the oldest inscription in London is debunked. The bust is at third floor level in a narrow passage - don't know how we missed it.
The building was erected in 1676 and soon became the Grecian Coffee House which it remained until about 1842.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Devereux bust
Born in Essex House. He was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Essex, and the last...
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
At first we thought this was Henry Leeke, the founder of the school but Ornamental Passions are confident that it is Newton. Given that ...
This shop front has, like a lot of shop fronts of this period, atop the flanking pillars, decorative capitals and corbels. On this shop ...
Note the appropriately named current occupants of the premises, Church's Shoes.
