SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about this building and also fails to identify number 5. The building was designed in 1890-2 by John Johnson and opened by John Lubbock. The library closed in 1989.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 2 - Shakespeare
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Bermondsey Library - 2 - Shakespeare
We would not describe this face as ugly so it can't be Socrates. We reckon i...
The weather has removed all the hair and costume details which are essential ...
This public library was erected 1890-1. Commissioners: A. Lafone, MP - Chairm...
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square and one facing out on the traffic.
All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign, and we don't know where they went.
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
Bronze. Replica of the bust in St Paul's. Albeit this is a relief rather than a statue in the round it is rare for the subject to be wear...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
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