Erection date: 1989
{On the statue base, at the right:}
T. Metcalfe 1989
Site: Austin Friar statue (1 memorial)
EC2, Austin Friars
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
Erection date: 1989
{On the statue base, at the right:}
T. Metcalfe 1989
EC2, Austin Friars
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Austin Friar statue
Augustinian friary just north-east of Bank, probably founded 1260ish, coverin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Austin Friar statue
The monument, commissioned by Queen Victoria and designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built 1864-72, and the statue of Albert was instal...
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...
The scholars are on the central facade of the building: boy to left, girl to right, with the British Royal coat of arms between. Above th...
Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in the Foreign Office.
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we note that the statue is veiled by a ...