To the glory of God & in grateful memory of H. M. King Edward VI who by his charter of 1550 granted asylum to the Huguenots from France.
This tympanum was set up in the year of our Lord 1950.
W1, Soho Square, French Protestant Church
Eglise Protesante Francaise de Londres, founded 24 July 1550 by a Royal Charter from Edward VI.
The current building was designed by Aston Webb in 1891-93.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. The name emerged in 1560 b...
Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI ...
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Vauxhall History gives: "Doulton worked closely with the renowned Lambeth School of Art and several well-known artists worked for the fir...
In memory of the victims of the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
Unveiled by Hutton's widow.
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of Gilbert Miller, George Alexander, Oscar Wilde and the Olivier...
