Erection date: 2009
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This building stands on the site of the former coach-house of Monmouth House, constructed in 1681/2 for James, Duke of Monmouth, eldest illegitimate son of King Charles II, who was executed three years later following an abortive rebellion.
W1, Bateman's Buldings, 9-11
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Monmouth House
The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site in Soho Square (then called King’s Squar...
This all took place between Lyme Regis and Bristol, and finished at the battl...
Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of Kin...
Chumleigh Gardens is a delightful, hidden away, gem. In our photo, the Hinds and Chumleigh plaques are either side of the white door, le...
Interesting that a plaque has been erected to the Mortlake Tapestry Works but not to John Dee, who was (what we would now call) scientifi...
Benjamin Britten, composer, 1913 - 1976, and Peter Pears, singer, 1910 - 1986, lived and worked here, 1943 - 1946. City of Westminster In...
The 1802 stone has clearly been saved from the ruin, and the 1952 plaque modelled on it. Nicely done. The close-up picture was taken fr...
