Erection date: 1863
Glory be to God
St George the Martyr Schools for 200 girls & 200 infants, 1863.
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, Eph II.20
The quotation is from the Bible, Ephesians.
WC1, Old Gloucester Street, 24
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St George the Martyr School - Girls & Infants
This school started on two floors of the Church’s Vestry House in Cosmo Place...
This is a large plaque, perhaps 2 or 3 feet wide. We tracked this plaque down at the Museum of London in November 2021 (before the Museu...
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
The site commemorated by this plaque is actually thought to be just the other side of Grove Park, about where the Co-op now is, but Grove...
The plaque is below the window to the left of the ornate entrance. Presumably this is a foundation stone or a building opening stone for ...
Vera Atkins, née Rosenberg, Commander of the Order of British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour. A Jewish pre-war British spy, Ve...
Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunt...
Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre, France, Ireland
Stage and film Actor. Born Margaret Taylor Rutherford in Balham. She was well into her thirties before she started acting, but rapidly established herself as a much sought after character actress. ...
Mother to Ambassador Spock. From Fandom: Amanda is "An Earth woman living on a planet where love, emotion, is bad taste." Amanda Grayson was a Human teacher from Earth. She was the first wife of S...
A York-based group of volunteers set up to raise funds for the memorial in Whitehall.
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Eleven days after her birth her mother died. Most famous for writing "Frankenstein". A freq...
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