Erection date: 1870
EC2, Basinghall Street, 71
Ornamental Passions has some more photos and information on these sculptures, and there we learn that this building is the 1870 Guildhall library by Sir Horace Jones.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeede...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
Sculptor. Born Wiltshire. His son, J. H. G. and his grandsons, J. H. and A. B...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Queen Elizabeth I at Guildhall
For other almshouse statues that have moved see the Fishmongers James Hulbert statue and Aske's Hospital and Robert Bentley Todd at the o...
The first buildings to occupy this site were built in 1232 by Henry III. The building was known as the Domus Conversorum (the House of C...
Mapping Sculpture, Sitwell and the eBay Centenary Book all give Hampton as the sculptor. The banishment of this statue from London out t...
The 1905 building is by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards. All the extensive decorative sculpture work is by Henry Poole and has a nautica...
Criticised at the time as the "worst piece of sculpture in England".
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