Site of Crosskey's Inn, destroyed 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Gracechurch Street
The archway in our picture is the entrance to Bell Inn Yard. On the left wall you can just see two plaques; the upper one names the yard, the lower is this blue plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Crosskey's Inn
In the late 1500s plays were performed in the inn-yard. The Inn was destroy...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Crosskey's Inn
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
The plaque is at the bottom of the escalators and stairs.
J.A.R. Newlands, 1837 - 1898, chemist and discoverer of the periodic law for the chemical elements, was born and raised here. Royal Socie...
LCC James Boswell (1740 - 1795), biographer, lived and died in a house on this site.
High on the front, at the left is the Sunday Schools plaque, and on the right the Memorial School plaque. The McArthur stone is low on th...
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
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