Architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria. Also the Biograph Theatre. Born Richmond Surrey.
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Keith Downes Young
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Goldington - foundation stone, 1902
St Pancras Borough Council This foundation stone was laid by the Right Worshi...
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City of Ur
Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no lon...
1 memorial
John Hargrave Stevens
Architect. Seems to have specialised in churches and often worked in partnership with George Alexander.
1 memorial
Auguste Charles Pugin
Architectural draughtsman. Born in Paris, a member of the French aristocracy who fled France during the Revolution and spent much of his life in England. Father of Augustus Pugin.
1 memorial
Decimus Burton
Architect and urban designer. The 10th child of James Burton the property developer. He was a founding fellow, and later, vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and architect ...
1 memorial
Inigo Jones
Architect and stage designer. Born near Smithfield. Never married. He studied architecture in Italy and brought the new Palladian designs to Britain. Became Surveyor of the King's Works, the king's...
4 memorials
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Tudor Hall - Barnet
Funded by the first Governors of the Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School and the Corporation of London. Now part of Barnet and Southgate College and used as a banqueting hall and conference space, et...
1 memorial
Artillery - cannons
SW1, Artillery Row, Artillery House
Admiring these charming toy-like cannons we realised they could be taken as a memorial to the use of this site for firing practice.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
H. G. Wells - Hanover Terrace
NW1, Hanover Terrace, 13
Greater London Council H. G. Wells, 1866 - 1946, writer, lived and died here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Kingschoole sluice
"Kingschoole" refers to the passage of the Tyburn river through the grounds of Westminster School. 'Sluice' refers to an artificial water channel controlled at its head by a gate. And there is in...
1 memorial
Rev. Edward Birch
Researching a plaque about West Hackney National Schools we did not expect to find the supposed straight-laced Victorians gleefully publishing a pamphlet giving the details brought out in the trial...
1 memorial
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