These two houses were the Portuguese Embassy, 1724 - 1747. The Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese Statesman Ambassador, 1739 - 1744, lived here.
Greater London Council
W1, Golden Square, 23-4
Behind these houses is a church which was first built as a Catholic chapel to serve this Embassy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oei...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
The plaque can be seen in our photo between the two lower windows towards the right.
LCC James Boswell (1740 - 1795), biographer, lived and died in a house on this site.
The building with the clock (dated 1853),just uphill from the plaque, is called 'The Old Rectory'.
The text is on the right side of the plaque. The photograph shows the left side of the plaque which has a map giving the route of the who...
This was the first plaque erected by the Dead Comics Society. From BCS: "A modest profit was made and funds given to St Aloysius' College...
