Erection date: 1870
EC2, Basinghall Street, 71
Ornamental Passions has some more photos and information on these sculptures, and there we learn that this building is the 1870 Guildhall library by Sir Horace Jones.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeede...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
Sculptor. Born Wiltshire. His son, J. H. G. and his grandsons, J. H. and A. B...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
The book he holds has "MPM FEBM" on the back cover and "DAM MPM" on the front cover. Perhaps these initials relate to the Moorhouse famil...
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody.
Don't know about you but we find this type of inscription very tedious, and suspect a committee, probably more than one, has had a hand i...
This square, the site of an ancient reservoir, was set out in 1716 on land owned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon and originally known as Devonshi...
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