Holly Village
N6, Swains Lane
This charming Victorian gothic development of 12 Grade 2 listed homes, completed in 1865 was at the southern extremity of the Holly Lodge...
This charming Victorian gothic development of 12 Grade 2 listed homes, completed in 1865 was at the southern extremity of the Holly Lodge...
Records of this coaching inn date back to 1542 although the current building dates back to 1676 when it was rebuilt following a devastati...
A nearby information board provides: "Following site redevelopment these splendid gates, from the original National Physical Laboratory (...
Since they are rather lovely we chose to photo one of the gate-post sculpted finials rather than the inscription. The other sculpture de...
Wynne was the artist for the central, cartoony, lion and unicorn screen. Lund was the designer of the rather lovely forged stainless ste...
We can't find any information explaining these gates but they were probably part of the 1958 post-war rebuild of the church and cloisters.
This 1800 arch was designed by one of the churchwardens at the time, Leverton, and was originally at the northern entrance on St Giles Hi...
St Giles-in-the-Fields was founded as a leper hospital by Matilda, Queen of Henry I in 1101; it was dissolved in 1539 and its former chap...
The two plaques are inside the porch facing each other. The one to J. Dawbarn Young himself, facing north, seems better protected from t...
2019: We are grateful to Justin Barkham who pointed out that we had incorrectly transcribed the text on the shield as 'Memory and peace' ...