Other work in London includes the Light and Sound reliefs on the Vue cinema in Cranbourn Street; The Swan Upper on Putney's Riverbank House; the wonderful 1958 Black Friar on Friars House 157- 168 Blackfriars Road; the Street Preacher on the Lambeth Mission; 'Dawn' on The Adelphi; the Water Baby fountain in Golders Hill Park, the figure on Lambeth Chapel, the 1958 mural on the the Pearl Assurance New Building, High Holborn (described in Apollo, August 1962, 76/6, 455-63, see A London Inheritance).
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Edward Bainbridge Copnall
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RIBA - Sir Christopher Wren
On the Weymouth Street facade there are 5 figures carved in relief by Copnall...
St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...
St James's Theatre - Olivier relief
We choose this as our featured memorial in March 2007 since this year sees th...
Thomas Becket statue
Not bronze but a resin which Copnall coloured to simulate bronze. More photo...
Other Subjects
Thomas Milnes
Sculptor. Born near Doncaster. He sculpted some lions for Nelson's column but they were rejected and those by Landseer used instead. Milnes's lions were used by Titus Salt at Saltaire. (Date of bir...
1 memorial
Chelsea Arts Club
Started in 1890 when a group of friends began meeting informally. At least one of these friends, Whistler, was dissatisfied with the club of which he was already a member, the Arts Club. They were ...
1 memorial
G. F. Watts
Born in London. His piano-making father named him after Handel. Married briefly to Ellen Terry, many years his junior. 1886 married Mary Tytler. The statue 'Physical Energy' in Hyde Park is his. Le...
17 memorials
Lillie Read
Sculptor active in 1914. Also worked on Giles Gilbert Scott's Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, in particular the carved figures of children in C15 Italian Renaissance style, in the Lady Chapel.
1 memorial
Margaret Wrightson
On a genealogical website we found "Margaret Wrightson born 1877, died 1976. Unmarried Sculptor & Artist". Her work seems very desirable to thieves. Another child statue, titled "Mary Mary qui...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
St Martin's School - George IV gift
WC2, Adelaide Street, 12
The large lettering runs along the top of the south face of the building.
1 subject commemorated
Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 02
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
1 subject commemorated
Newgate
Newgate was the western exit through the Roman London Wall. In later years the gate house was about 100 feet wide. Part of this building was used, from at least the 12th century, as a prison and th...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, Viscountess Lascelles
Third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Born York Cottage, Sandringham Estate. Her elder brothers became, in quick succession, Edward VIII and George VI. She married the sixt...
4 memorials
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