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 architects. Today it is the largest, oldest and most technically expert national pressure group fighting to save old buildings from decay, demolition and damage.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
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Worship Street workshops
91 - 101 Worship Street. Built as workshops and dwellings. Designed by Philip...
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Robert Mylne
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
1 memorial
John Pollard Seddon
Born London House, 150 Aldersgate Street. Architect whose designs included the University College, Aberystwyth. He was essentially an ecclesiastical architect, building and restoring many churches....
1 memorial
John Dando Sedding
Architect. Born Eton. Specialised in churches and worked in an Arts and Crafts style of Gothic. His major work is Holy Trinity, Sloane Square but this dedicated website lists 6 other churches in ...
1 memorial
Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group
Founded to focus attention on the historic environment of the borough and to record, preserve and enhance its historic buildings.
16 memorials
Frank Meisler
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
1 memorial
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Bryant & May Testimonial fountain - lost
E3, Bow Road
This elaborate fountain was commissioned by Bryant and May to celebrate the abolition of the proposed match tax in 1872. Erected by publ...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
Sergeant Richard Henry Foster
Richard Henry Foster was born on 1 May 1921, the second of the three children of Bertie Foster (1888-1966) and Edith Kate Foster née Nixey (1891-1967). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter o...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Silver Jubilee bench
EN1, Silver Street
We don't normally collect benches but large, unusual plaques like this one are irresistible.
2 subjects commemorated
South Bank mosaic - Steve Redgrave
SE1, South Bank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall / Purcell Room
These mosaics are laid in the pavement in a rather sad, out the way, corner of the South Bank, at street level, near the non-main entranc...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Ronald Ross
Born Almora, India. Died London, Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundatio...
2 memorials
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