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 girl
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Botolph’s - charity girl
This B&W photo is from London Picture Archive where it is captioned: "Trinity Almshouses, statue of Captain Richard Maples, removed f...
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell portrait.
Written by William Johnson Cory. First performed in 1863, the first verse goes:. . . . Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees,...
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