New wing added 1887, J. T. Pedder Esq. Chairman
EC1, Old Street
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from left to right: 1887, 1698, 1972, 1870. Lower down are two, more decorative plaques, commemorating two treasurers, left to right: Pedder and Telfer.
The school is now in premises in nearby Radnor Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke'...
John Thomas Pedder was born in 1823 in Romford, Essex, the second of the eigh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Luke's - 1887
Initially we thought this building was devoid of fishy symbolism. But then we found a dolphin keystone on the gateway in Snow Hill, scul...
At the right hand end of the terrace there is a delightful and very unusual water fountain arrangement. 2018: The Telegraph included thi...
31-32 John Street is known as John Kirk House and in April 2012 is being converted into apartments, see Banbury Ball.
The quotation is from Psalm 41, the King James Version. While at school, Shaftesbury, a Christian teenager, witnessed a pauper's funeral...
Jeremy Bentham Known for many years as the 'Lord Wellington' it is still frequently referred to as the 'Welly Bar' by many of the academ...
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