To the glory of God & in grateful memory of H. M. King Edward VI who by his charter of 1550 granted asylum to the Huguenots from France.
This tympanum was set up in the year of our Lord 1950.
W1, Soho Square, French Protestant Church
Eglise Protesante Francaise de Londres, founded 24 July 1550 by a Royal Charter from Edward VI.
The current building was designed by Aston Webb in 1891-93.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. The name emerged in 1560 b...
Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI ...
Our research into the history of the school convinces us that the blank section of ribbon must have read "Christ Church" which was the sc...
The ‘Drama Through the Ages’ frieze is by Gilbert Bayes. The listing says "Bayes' frieze is one of the largest and most important works o...
This Queen Anne style house was designed in 1880 by architect F.G. Knight for Oscar Leslie Stephen, a director of the Great Northern Rail...
Internet Archive gives: "On the north-west corner of Warwick Lane is an effigy of Guy, Earl of Warwick. He is dressed as a knight in armo...
The text is inscribed on the reverse of the relief.
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