Erection date: 1989
{On the statue base, at the right:}
T. Metcalfe 1989
Site: Austin Friar statue (1 memorial)
EC2, Austin Friars
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
Erection date: 1989
{On the statue base, at the right:}
T. Metcalfe 1989
EC2, Austin Friars
The Austin Friars house, built in 1253, used to occupy this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Austin Friar statue
Augustinian friary just north-east of Bank, probably founded 1260ish, coverin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Austin Friar statue
The motto above the door reads ‘Come in and learn your duty to God and man’. The scholar statues on the front are copies. The originals w...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
The 1905 building is by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards. All the extensive decorative sculpture work is by Henry Poole and has a nautica...
The 4 female figures around the base represent: Britannia, France, America, Ireland. It was during Queen Anne's reign that the rebuildin...
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
This website gives more detailed information about the creation of the bust. In 2011, the Grant Museum moved from its previous location ...
Laid out and the plane trees planted following private Acts of Parliament of 1780 and 1823.
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