At the cross roads the Standard in Cornhill formerly stood. Removed 1674.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Cornhill, 59-60
The plaque is actually high up on the Gracechurch Street frontage. The Cornhill Standard was a water pump, so important that round about 1600 it was sometimes used as the measuring point for distances to London, instead of Queen Eleanor's Cross. Neither Wikipedia norLondonist mention it.
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Cornhill Standard
A water conduit, and point of measurement. From Wikipedia: "first mechanicall...
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Cornhill Standard
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
This plaque is on the last but one southern pier of the southern building.
The renaming, reported by The Tab, was to celebrate 100 years since women gained the vote, and LSE History describes how central this are...
These were presumably navigational signs for people visiting St David’s wing, indicating where to find the various wards, etc. "Ifor" is ...
Dame Margaret Rutherford, 1892 - 1972, actress, lived here, 1895 - 1920. English Heritage
The four niches contain, reading clockwise, starting at the north: empty; Morris; Queen Elizabeth; King George V. London's Screen Archiv...
One of architect George Basevi's early commissions - he was brought up in Greenwich. Demolished in 1935. To us the tower seems out of proportion to the pedimented portico.
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