Master mason, for George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Other works in London include the statues at the Guildhall of Charles I and Elizabeth I. Stone's name could not be more appropriate - see Isambard Brunel for more examples of nominative determinism.
Our image shows an engraving of the now lost monument to Stone, with a portrait of his son, Nicholas, also a sculptor, added to the lower left. It was in the church at St Martin-in-the-Fields, where he was buried.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Nicholas Stone
The streets laid out on the site of York House were named: Villiers Street, D...
Architect. Son of the architect George Dance the Elder, one of the 4 original members of the Royal Academy, he designed Newgate Prison and St Luke's Hospital. John Soane was his pupil. We have see...
Designed by Walter Epps. It was intended to stand 'as a memorial to the enterprise and loyalty of the inhabitants of Bexleyheath'. Our picture shows the tower in 1912.
Trenwith Lovering Wills was born on 14 February 1891 in Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire, the elder son of John Trenwith Wills (1844-1915) and Florence Elizabeth Wills née Lovering (1852-1926). The 1891...
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
Arcitectural firm founded by Giles Gilbert Scott. Their work includes the reconstuction of Guildhall, and later the Guildhall Art Gallery.
