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
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
The plaques are just inside the entrance to the museum.
The Forgotten Irish In commemoration of that generation of post World War II Irish emigrants, both men and women, who left their homes, c...
2012: This building no longer exists (demolished apparently in 2007) and last time we looked had been replaced with a building site. We h...
Plaque unveiled, by Sandra Caron (her sister), Michael Winner, Petula Clark, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson.
Eight feet of ground from the stone of this house were given by the Mercers' Company in the year 1835 for the purpose of widening the ent...
In our photo the plaque can be seen between the trees and above the car.
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