Relief

CI - 7 - Coffee

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Garraway’s Coffee House, a place of great commercial transaction and frequented by people of quality.

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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CI - 7 - Coffee

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Garraways Coffee House

Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far a...

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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

St Peter’s Cornhill founded by King Lucius 179 AD to be an Archbishop’s see a...

CI - 2 - Eleanor

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CI - 3 - Bread

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CI - 4 - Market

Cornhill the only market allowed to be held after noon in the 14th century.

CI - 5 - Drapers

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

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