The Society's own website says "Meeting nights were indicated by a lamp hung over the Fleet Street entrance to the courtyard." Matt Brown of Londonist thinks (and we agree with him) that this lamp, at the centre of a sort of armillary sphere, is inspired by that lamp from over 200 years ago.
EC4, Crane Court
The Royal Society met at the north end of Crane Court from 1710-80, that's the end behind our camera.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Crane Court - Royal Society
Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Kno...
Mary's mosaic is the most elaborate of the 10 here but by bad luck it has been placed in direct line of some rusty, sludgy drips from the...
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A London Inheritance, a great post covering the area, with many...
This memorial is in the grounds at the front of the school. Note the statue in the photograph - there is nothing on it to say but we gue...
See Atterbury Street for another one of these giant bollards. And one in Australia.
We think these stones topped the gate piers at the street entrance to the memorial building.
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