Erection date: 1821
{On the base of the statue:}
COADE LAMBETH 1821
EC2, St Botolph’s Church Hall, Bishopsgate
This building was originally the School House, begun in 1821 by Sir William Rawlins.
From Spitalfields Life 2014 we learn that: Many layers of paint were removed from the statues and they are now kept inside the building, behind glass. The statues in the niches are replicas.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Botolph’s - charity boy
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Botolph’s - charity boy
A ceramic material called an artificial stone, and created by Mrs Eleanor Coa...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Botolph’s - charity boy
The 'statue' represents his passion for cycling. It is topped by a cormorant, a bird that frequents the dock area.
This belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody. The same sculptor has a standing statue of Brunel in Bristol, a...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 31 October 1988, as a Spitfire flew over.
Unveiled by the Duke of Connaught and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. This i...
Born Michael Latham Powell at Howletts, Bekesbourne, near Canterbury, Kent. He left his job in banking to enter the film industry. As co-director to Alexander Korda on 'The Thief of Bagdad' he was ...
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Although the discovery of its double heli...
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 - 1816, dramatist and statesman lived here, 1795 - 1802. London County Council
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