The picture shows the frigidarium, with statues in niches near the tops of the columns.
The Turkish baths, constructed as part of the 1913 extension to the Imperial Hotel, were the subject of an early campaign by the Victorian Society, which failed and the baths were demolished, with the rest of the hotel, in 1966. But the statues were rescued and now sit in the courtyard of the new hotel, just down Russell Square, at Imperial Hotel - statues.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Turkish baths at Imperial Hotel
Group concerned with promoting the memory of Szmul Zygielbojm.
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...
Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.
The Cynthia Jarrett memorial is beneath the ground floor windows on the far right of the photograph. The Bernie Grant plaque is to the ...
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