The House of Royal Soc. for Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce.
Foundation laid 28 March 1772, completed 24 April 1774.
Robert & James Adam architects.
WC2, Adam Street, 8
Full title of organisation now is "The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce" (as announced on pillar).
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
House of Royal Soc. for Encouragement of Arts etc
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. Died 13 Albemarle Street and is buri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
House of Royal Soc. for Encouragement of Arts etc
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee Hou...
{On the plaque on the gate pier:} To the memory of William Gilbert Grace, the great cricketer, 1848 - 1915, these gates were erected by t...
The plaque is in a very narrow section of the passageway, to the right of our picture. The churchyard's 18th century railings and stone ...
The plaque is located on the site of her first factory which was called the Omnia Works.
Charming plaque but the history is baloney, according to Gillian Tyndall in her book 'The House by the Thames and the People who Lived Th...
From Westminster's Conservation Audit: This Listed grade II monument was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is in a high Victorian ...
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