Plaque: Charles I - Harrow on the Hill
{Above the portrait bust:}
Carolus Rex
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Near this spot on 27th April 1646 King Charles I, when fleeing from Oxford with two companions on his way to surrender to the Scottish Army at Southwell, rested to take a last look at London and to water his horses at the spring which still runs below and has ever since been called King Charles's Well.
Site: Charles I, Hogarth, Reynolds (3 memorials)
HA1, Grove Hill, Art School
Not to be confused with Harrow School of Art. this is Harrow School's art department, hence the artists's memorials.
The two busts are on the right, east, wing of the building, which is Listed Grade II: "1896, by W C Marshall. Single-storey with 2-storey recessed wing on left and low single-storey wing on right. Simple neo-Jacobean. Red brick with stone dressings. Stone porch in angle with left wing. Central transmullioned oriel on main front under dutch gables. Wing to right has relief plaques of Hogarth and Reynolds flanking central door. High panelled chimney on left."
