Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace (Londonist has a good post about this), the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Aston Webb
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Aston Webb at Whiteley Village
This small enamel plaque looks as if it was installed when the cottages were ...
St Bartholomew's Gatehouse
This delightful plaque has a crest at each end. The open gate rather spoils t...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Aston Webb
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London Troops War Memorial
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...
Queen Victoria Memorial
Shame about the nose. On the platform at the unveiling ceremony Brock was mad...
Royal Artillery Boer War memorial
Bronze statue depicts War being controlled by Peace. Unveiled by the Duke of ...
William III statue - W8
At Berliner-Schloss (with heavy use of translation tools) we learn that this ...
Other Subjects
John Dower
Civil servant and architect. John Gordon Dower was born and died in Yorkshire. In 1945, invalided out of military service, he produced the official report which set out what National Parks in Engla...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Founded by William Morris, Philip Webb and others associated with the Pre-Raphaelites to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian arch...
1 memorial
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, C.H., K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.D.I.
Hugh Casson was an architect, notably for the 1951 Festival of Britain and the London Zoo Elephant House. President of the Royal Academy (PRA) from 1976 to 1984. He was also president of The Frie...
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Paxton
Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Pala...
4 memorials
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St Marks WW1 cross
NW8, Hamilton Terrace
The crucifix is supported on a Tuscan column. Some sections of the list of names are so badly weather-damaged that the names there are p...
War dead | WW1
112 subjects commemorated
112 subjects commemorated
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and located the South magnetic pole during his voyage of 1907-1909. Died of a heart attach on a voyage to the South Atlantic...
3 memorials
Clapham Junction rail disaster
SW18, Spencer Park
The shape of the monument suggests a railway carriage cut in two. 2020:Wikipedia names the sculptor as Richard Healy and we are informed...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Coronation of George VI - fig tree
EC3, St Dunstan's Hill, St Dunstan's in the East Garden
This plaque was planned during turbulent times in the royal-watching community. Here's the time-line: 20 January 1936, George V died and ...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Captain Blaney & colleagues, E7
E7, Romford Road
From Newham Stories (2018: that link not working but Newham Story has the text) we learn that there used to be another plaque commemorati...
War dead, Civilian war dead | WW2
10 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
10 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
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