Erection date: 2/6/1893
W, St, M & J
This delicate monogram can be decoded to represent: St Margaret and St John, Westminster, an early version of Westminster Council.
SW1, Horseferry Road, 65
The listing entry includes : "... an early example of Arts and Crafts freely-handled neo-Georgian-Jacobean... " which makes it sound like a right mess!
2024: A striking extension has been added to the right of this building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coroner's Court, Westminster - keystone
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coroner's Court, Westminster - keystone
Thrust into a corner of the facade and hidden by a bay tree this plaque has t...
'Boy First Class' is a naval category for a boy aged 16 to 18 who is under training, and who has previously served for between 9 and 18 m...
We would not normally collect this type of inscription - many of the early housing projects carry similar notices. But they are normall...
Virginia Stephen, Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, novelist and critic, born and lived here until 1904.
In our photo the plaque can be seen on one of the paving stones behind the solo pedestrian.
Oh, dear, both the architect's names are misspelt on this plaque.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
Worldwide radio service. Originally founded as the BBC Empire Service for English speakers across the British Empire. In 1938, foreign languages were introduced, and the name of the station was ch...
We'd give odds that most Londoners have never heard of Princes Circus but it's there on the map, at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue, S...
London County Council Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, poet, stayed here in 1863.
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