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 in 1681 on which the hous...
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...
The cartouches are on the two gables on the front elevation. Speel informs that the relief and the plain inscribed stone were moved here ...
Historian, William Harnett Blanch, 1836 - 1900, lived here. Peckham Society
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
At the War Memorials Register we learn that, since we visited, laminated signs have been attached to the cages around the 13 trees, givin...
OK, this is not actually a memorial but it's too good to exclude on the basis of house rules.
