SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
Poet, essayist, playwright, historian, and diplomat. Born in the house called...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 4 - Milton
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
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