Plaque

Guildhall School of Music - Gibbons

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Gibbons 1583 - 1625

Site: Guildhall School of Music (5 memorials)

EC4, John Carpenter Street

This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed by Sir Horace Jones, it was opened in December 1886 and the school remained here until April 1977 when it moved to the Barbican.
One of the windows has a delightful jester's head on the keystone.

Each of the five oculi on the first floor are heavily decorated and surmounted with a name carved in stone which read, left to right: Tallis, Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Sterndale-Bennett.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Guildhall School of Music - Gibbons

Subjects commemorated i

Orlando Gibbons

Composer and keyboard player. Born Oxford. Died Canterbury.

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Guildhall School of Music - Gibbons

Also at this site i

Guildhall School of Music - Arne

Arne 1710 - 1778

Guildhall School of Music - Purcell

Purcell 1658 - 1695

Guildhall School of Music - Sterndale-Bennett

Sterndale-Bennett 1816 - 1875

Guildhall School of Music - Tallis

Tallis 1520 - 1585

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