SW1, Great Smith Street
The foundation stone is immediately to the right of the central entrance.
Above the entrance: "Westminster Public Library, The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the Evangelist, AD 1893". In 1985 this building was threatened with demolition and was only saved by a campaign which brought about the Thorney Island Society.
The Listing identifies the heads for us, and we've numbered them left to right.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 4 - Dryden
Poet and playwright. Born in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The first Poet Laur...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 4 - Dryden
Westminster Public Library The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the...
We first thought Francis Bacon but he normally has more hair, and, so far, al...
The hair seems a bit too curly but the sad eyes are right.
The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in th...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
The building by E. R. Robson was erected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, founded in 1831 (the crest in the centre of...
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
The background depicts a few buildings and we can all ID City Hall. For the others we rely on the ever-informative Ornamental Passions. ...
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
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