To the glory of God & in grateful memory of H. M. King Edward VI who by his charter of 1550 granted asylum to the Huguenots from France.
This tympanum was set up in the year of our Lord 1950.
W1, Soho Square, French Protestant Church
Eglise Protesante Francaise de Londres, founded 24 July 1550 by a Royal Charter from Edward VI.
The current building was designed by Aston Webb in 1891-93.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. The name emerged in 1560 b...
Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
French Protestant Church - Soho Square
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI ...
Portland stone. Charmingly modern relief sculpture showing 13 sport participants (including 3 women) all of whom carry their racquets an...
Under the gable is a relief showing a surreal image: three arms each with a hand at both ends, with the six hands clasped in such as way ...
This is the site of the 17th century Temple Bar entrance to the City of London. Having become an obstruction to circulation it was remove...
{Crammed in above the hog:} Rebuilt by Wm Harris 1897 {In a monogram lower down on the building:} W H
The two be-wreathed babies are on the building on the south-east side of the street, which was the 1914 nurses home; the others on the, p...
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