Richard Norman Shaw, architect, 1831 - 1912.
Bob Speel informs that this roundel was designed by Lethaby and modelled by Thornycroft.
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Scotland Yard
This pair of buildings, built 1887 - 1906, were designed by Shaw for the Metropolitan Police who had outgrown their Whitehall premises. They moved out in 1967 to new offices in St James's.
The roundel is on the northern building, the first completed.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Richard Norman Shaw - SW1
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Pioneer of Old English and Queen Anne styles. His ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Richard Norman Shaw - SW1
Born Barnstaple, Devon. Architect, in the arts and crafts style, and writer o...
Sculptor. Born William Hamo Thornycroft (but the William is normally dropped)...
This is smaller than most plaques and made to look like it has been stamped in sealing wax. The Roman year translates as 1921 (the year t...
Greater London Council Robert Baden-Powell, 1857-1941, chief scout of the world lived here.
These plaques mark property boudaries and identify ownership.
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
English Heritage Charles X, 1757 - 1836, last Bourbon King of France, lived here, 1805 - 1814.
The 52 columns are 1m apart, 3.5m high and made of roughly textured stainless steel cast in sand. They are arranged in four clusters of ...
Elected Guardian of the Lewisham Union - Lewisham in 1894.
The house in which Banks etc lived had had a blue plaque attached in 1911. When it was demolished and replaced in 1938 with this buildin...
His ringlets are formed by coins. Loose copies of an old penny are placed at the bottom corners: head (a young Victoria) at the left, tai...
Those, buried at St Giles and St Pancras, whose graves are now unseen, or the record of whose names may have been obliterated.
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