WC1, Bloomsbury Way, Kingsley Hotel
This bust on the ornate underbelly of the bow windows is now obscured by the glass awning above the front entrance of the hotel. At the top of the building a stone plaque shows the entwined digits "1900".
Compare and contrast Rembrandt in Thurloe Place.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Kingsley - WC1
Born Devon. Christian Socialist and amateur naturalist. Supported his friend,...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
Number 12, the eastern half of the building on this concave corner is, 2014, occupied by Leon, but it used to be the pub The King Lud. Bu...
Stalin? Can't be - for so many reasons, one being that he didn't look like this at this time; he was much younger. Lea Cornthwaite sugg...
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square and one facing out on the traffic.
In the spandrels above the entrance door: "Bloomsbury Rifles Pro Patria Semper" ('for my country always'). The technique used for this le...
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