Inscription
Site of Northumberland House
The Corporation of the City of London
Site: 3 blue plaques and a keystone head (4 memorials)
EC1, St Martin's le Grand, Nomura House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
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Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
Belonged to King Henry IV who gave it to his wife Queen Jane after which it w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
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Corporation of the City of London
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
Also at this site i
Bull and Mouth Inn - St Martin's le Grand
Site of the Bull and Mouth Inn, demolished 1888. The Corporation of the City ...
French Protestant Church - St Martin's le Grand
Site of the French Protestant Church, demolished 1888. The Corporation of the...
Henry Raikes keystone
Raikes was the Postmaster General who commissioned this building for the Gene...
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The plaque is on the brown wall below the gray canopy. August 2018: this building is threatened with demolition.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Flinders Petrie
NW3, Cannon Place, 5
London County Council Sir Flinders Petrie, 1853 - 1942, Egyptologist, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated
St Mary Woolchurch
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Site of St Mary Woolchurch Haw The Corporation of the City of London
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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