Erection date: 1868
{On a granite plaque below the statue:}
Sir Thomas Gresham, born c.1519, died 1579
EC4, Holborn Viaduct, Gresham House
Holborn Viaduct is watched over by four memorial statues:
north-west corner - Walworth
south-west corner - Fitz Eylwin
south-east corner - Gresham
north-east corner - Myddelton.
The Walworth page contains information about Holborn Viaduct itself.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Holborn Viaduct - Gresham
Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshop...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Holborn Viaduct - Gresham
Bursill also sculpted the allegorical statues on Holborn bridge and seems to ...
This seatless statue belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody.
Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in the Foreign Office.
This 7 foot statue was unveiled to mark the completion of the Cannon Street Station renovation and the 400th anniversary of the granting ...
2023: Esther Jung asked us about a date discrepancy on this inscription: both the Oxford DNB and Wikipedia give Tyndale's date of birth a...
The statue is lit at night and the shadow of the figure on the bronze disk photographs well.
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