Plaque

St Katharine by the Tower

Inscription

St Katharine by the Tower

Very similar iron plaques can be found on mooring bollards around the docks. The design looks early 19th century to us so perhaps this plaque dates from the creation of the docks.

At Balliol Archives we found a very similar image and the text: "Her usual symbols are a wheel and a book, and may also include the more general symbols of the virgin martyr, a crown and a sword." The saint on this plaque has two appropriate extra symbols: the water and the Tower.

Site: William III at St Katharine's Docks (2 memorials)

E1, St Katharine's Lock, Dockmaster's house

Of the three plaques in this picture the left-most is a modern information panel explaining how locks work so it does not qualify for our attentions.

London Details gives some interesting literary references to St Katharine Docks.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Katharine by the Tower

Subjects commemorated i

St Katharine by the Tower / Royal Foundation of St Katharine

Full name: Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine by the Tower...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Katharine by the Tower

Also at this site i

Anglo-Dutch friendship

Anglo-Dutch friendship

We've not done well with this memorial. Can't explain the connection (assumi...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Sir Noel Coward - Sutton

Sir Noel Coward - Sutton

SM1, Lenham Road, 56

The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Lillie Langtry - Pont Street

Lillie Langtry - Pont Street

SW1, Pont Street, 21

Lillie Langtry, 1852-1929, actress, lived here. Greater London Council

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder

Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder

EC4, Shoe Lane

Blitzwalkers give a good description of the incident. The AFS squad sent to fight this fire included Holder, the war artist Leonard Roso...

Civilian war dead | WW2
4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Wynkyn de Worde

Wynkyn de Worde

EC4, Stationers’ Hall Court

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front or back of all books to identify the printer. Not sure we w...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy

N16, Yoakley Road

The plaque was in place by April 2012.

1 subject commemorated