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...
2024: This whole block is a building site so we have marked these memorials as being lost. Possibly they will be reinstated when the dev...
The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...
Apologies for the lack of focus on this one - partly due to the carving being so weather-worn that our camera had trouble focussing (when...
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
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