Erection date: 1676
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This is Devereux Court, 1676.
WC2, Devereux Court
This bust was brought to our attention by Discovering London, where its claim to carry the oldest inscription in London is debunked. The bust is at third floor level in a narrow passage - don't know how we missed it.
The building was erected in 1676 and soon became the Grecian Coffee House which it remained until about 1842.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Devereux bust
Born in Essex House. He was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Essex, and the last...
The plaque immediately below the bust is blank but there are 4 others below that, each with an inscription. The text of the upper three ...
Dick stands in front of a milestone showing he is in Highgate (3 miles from London) with his cat rubbing up against his torn leggings, an...
In the early 1900s Moncure Conway retired to Paris, where he met and became good friends with sculptor Spicer Simson, still in the early...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
We double checked the "1881" - that is what is carved, it's not our mistype. She was born September 1880.
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