Apprenticed to his father in August 1700 – ‘John Meard Citizen and Turner... his father and Master admitted to this Freedom’ (Freedom Admissions Register of the Turners’ Company). On his father’s death in 1713 he inherited 20 houses plus St. Anne’s Court – around 50 houses in all. One of the great carpenters of his generation at a time when his trade was the key component in the construction of the London townhouse. Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters’ in 1735, and worked with Sir Christopher Wren at St Paul’s Cathedral and with the architect John James on some of the City’s greatest churches.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Meard Junior
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Meard Street
2022: We were contacted by David Bieda who wrote: "Meard Street plaque. I’d l...
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Benedict O'Looney Architects
Firm of architects. They have worked on the Peckham and Croydon mosques and the restoration of Peckham Rye Station. Years ago we joined an excellent architectural walk examining Edwardian buildings...
Blackheath Preservation Trust
One of the oldest building preservation trusts in the United Kingdom. It was founded by members of the newly-formed Blackheath Society as an independent and separate property company. Its original ...
William Oxtoby, A.M.I.C.E.
Appointed Surveyor/Engineer for the Borough of Camberwell c.1898. William Oxtoby was born on 7 February 1862 in Hull, Yorkshire. He was the fourth of the five children of Robert Oxtoby (1823-1874)...
Frank Twydale Dear
Architect of John Street and/or Bedford Row, our source, The Vauxhall Society, is unclear. So many records (as at April 2022) can be found on the internet claiming that the Stockwell War Memorial ...
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H. G. Wells mural
BR1, Market Square, 20 - 25
The mural featured a portrait of Wells and pictorial references to some of his works, particularly 'The War of the Worlds'. Over the year...
Lord Curzon statue
SW1, Carlton House Terrace
See the unveiling and hear Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech at ITN Source.
Hampden Gurney - 1863
W1, Forset Street
Hampden Gurney Schools Erected A. D. 1863 in memory of John Hampden Gurney, MA, Rector of St Mary's, Marylebone.
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