Erection date: 1870
EC2, Basinghall Street, 71
Ornamental Passions has some more photos and information on these sculptures, and there we learn that this building is the 1870 Guildhall library by Sir Horace Jones.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria at Guildhall
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria at Guildhall
Sculptor. Born Wiltshire. His son, J. H. G. and his grandsons, J. H. and A. B...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria at Guildhall
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
The monument, commissioned by Queen Victoria and designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built 1864-72, and the statue of Albert was instal...
Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea to commemorate the Second Millennium, this bronze statue is life-size and a half. Unveiled by ...
The sculptor's name is inscribed on the stone below the feet.
Ornamental Passions tells us "A pair of schoolchildren flanked each entrance, as was customary, but one pair was later transferred to St ...
Made of beaten copper. War-damaged in 1944 it was restored and re-erected in 1950.
Out of alphabetical sequence on the Smithfield war memorial so possibly a late addition.
