Vicar Humphreys
WC2, Adelaide Street
To the memory of William Gilson Humphrey B.D. Scholar divine Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886 Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
To the memory of William Gilson Humphrey B.D. Scholar divine Vicar of this parish from 1855 to 1886 Born Jan. 1815 Died Jan. 1886
We'd give odds that most Londoners have never heard of Princes Circus but it's there on the map, at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue, S...
Standing in Piccadilly one sees 4 memorials on the wall: from left to right: Sotheran Fountain, Garden, Lyttelton Fountain, Railings. The...
The book-selling business set up by her husband still trades as Sotheran's Rare Books and Prints at 2-5 Sackville Street, less than 100 y...
This 'Matilda fountain' is a copy of the 1867 statue 'At the Spring' or 'Early Morn' held at Blackburn Town Hall, or possibly that is a ...
This drinking fountain, manufactured in cast-iron by 'Andrew Handyside & Co. Ltd. of Derby & London' was presented in 1877 at the...
The medallion was sculpted in 1886. Chelsea says: "It appears to be based on a lithograph published in 1885 and held in the National Por...
A cherub stands atop the fountain clutching a dolphin which appears capable of spouting water but was not obliging on our visit. This fo...
{Carved in the granite pedestal:} Presented by Emily Bessie Orbell, July 1885.
Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemorate so, unusually, he is, on our website at least, commemora...