Erection date: /9/1926
{On a nearby modern plaque:}
The Devonshire Coat-of-Arms
Removed from the portico of the Devonshire House which stood on this site, 1735 - 1924, and placed here September 1926.
Presented by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.
W1, Mayfair Place, Devonshire House
This coat-of-arms is inside the arcade.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Devonshire Coat-of-Arms
Built for the third Duke of Devonshire in about 1740 and used as the London r...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Devonshire Coat-of-Arms
Born Marylebone. Died Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, his country seat.
This reminds us of that scene at the end of Planet of the Apes.
Even in our rather dismal photo you can see that there is a hill here, in an otherwise uniformly flat Park. Why is this hill here? We cam...
The quotation, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', was spoken by Kenneth Branagh at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
The north face is carved with images of a deer, squirrel, fox and pelican. The opposite face shows a horse, cat, dog and pigeon. The anim...
This masonry fragment is probably part of a pediment and, to our eye, shows classical, not medieval, features. Perhaps the mansion had la...
Alec Dickson, 1914 - 1994, founder VSO & CSV, lived and died here. Bedford Park Society
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