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 Victoria at Guildhall
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria 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 Victoria at Guildhall
This statue is made of a single piece of marble weighing 11 tons. As was the fashion at the time the king is depicted wearing the militar...
Ward-Jackson refers to this statue twice as 'Empress Mathilda' and once as 'Empress Maud' which confused us at first but we discovered th...
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
The large terrace area around the statue is worth commenting on. It's clearly original and has somehow survived. There are 4 concentric...
Unveiled by Horace Maybray King, then Speaker of the House of Commons. 2018: Clive Duncan kindly wrote, introduced himself and provided ...
