Erection date: 1926
{below his feet:}
The world is my parish
{On the base of the granite pedestal:}
Erected with funds collected by the children of Methodism
{On the stone below the granite pedestal:}
Wesley
EC1, City Road, 47, Wesley Chapel
The pedestal was designed by Elijah Hoole.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Wesley statue - City Road
Founder of the Methodist denomination of the Protestant religion. Born Epwort...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Wesley statue - City Road
Sculptor. Born John Adams in Acton and later added the (now) suburb's name t...
The white information board that can be seen in the photograph reads: "The Titanic Memorial Garden was established by the National Marit...
We have seen a map showing the London parishes of 1877 which shows a major boundary here but it is between Islington and St Pancras. Pres...
English Heritage Thomas Hood, 1799 - 1845, poet, lived and died here.
This is the one 1930s house in a terrace of Victorian properties. It's smaller both in height and floorplan - not a development that woul...
Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Neve...
Born Bold Street, Liverpool. Son of the painter William Henry Hunt. Poet and landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem ‘Nine...
Second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and inherited the title on his death in 1974. Grandson of George V, and son of Princess Alice. Patron of the Silver Jubilee Walkway Trust. 1975 honou...
Architect known for his war memorial designs. Born Devon. Married Jessie Naismith Morton (sister of Sarah Reid Anderson) in Edinburgh and they had seven children, the third born was the architect J...
Vicereine of India and director of emergency relief services. Born Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley at 32 Bruton Street. A leading member of London society, she married Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1922....
Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Borneo, India
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them