Relief

CI - 5 - Drapers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 1939

Inscription

Birche Lane, Cornhill, place of considerable trade for men’s apparel, 1604.

Site: Cornhill Insurance doors (8 memorials)

EC3, Cornhill, 32

The carved doors are at the right of the building, behind the cyclist in our picture. According to Esoteric London these panels, listed here in reading sequence (left right, top down), "were designed by the sculptor Walter Gilbert in 1939. Gilbert modelled each of the reliefs in clay and from this the two mahogany doors were carved by B. P. Arnold at H. H. Martyn & Co. Ltd of Cheltenham 'architectural decorators and furnishers'."

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
CI - 5 - Drapers

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Birchin Lane drapers

From Stow: "...Birchin Lane. . . . This lane, and the High Street, near adjoi...

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B. P. Arnold

Bernard Philip Arnold M.M., was born on 30 May 1893 in Birmingham, Warwickshi...

Walter Gilbert

Sculptor. Born Rugby. Cousin to Sir Alfred Gilbert. His son, Donald, also ...

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CI - 1 - Christianity

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CI - 2 - Eleanor

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CI - 4 - Market

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CI - 6 - Wine

Pope’s Head Tavern in existence in 1756 belonged to Merchant Taylor’s Company...

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