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 ...
This relief is "The Death of Nelson" by J. E. Carew, on the front (south) face of the base of Nelson's Column. It depicts a scene at the ...
The carved doors are at the right of the building, behind the cyclist in our picture. According to Esoteric London these panels, listed ...
There are sculpted lions couchant on a number of entrance piers in this area, one just to the right, outside our photo, and a pair at eac...
These doors are in the centre of the river frontage of the building. Mapping of sculpture alerted us to this memorial: "The ground floor...
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