Erection date: 1993
{Top left, above the coat of arms worn by England cricket team:}
Sir Leonard Hutton
Unveiled by Hutton's widow.
SE11, Kennington Oval, John Edrich Gate
We'd guess that the diagram plaque was created soon after the record-breaking innings and had been on display elsewhere until it was moved here to complement the brick sculpture.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Leonard Hutton - brick sculpture
Cricketer. Born Yorkshire. Played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire 1934-55...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Leonard Hutton - brick sculpture
One of eighteen first-class county cricket clubs in England and Wales. It rep...
Born Coventry. Apprenticed to Eric Gill. Often worked in brick. Died Kenilwor...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Leonard Hutton - brick sculpture
We assume that if one added all the digits together the total would be 364 ru...
The "save the Oval" campaign was not, as we first thought, made necessary by ...
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 ...
Phillip Ward-Jackson in his encyclopaedic "Public Sculpture in the City of London" identifies these reliefs as representing the four elem...
This phoenix represents the rebirth of the old Cathedral, lost in the Great Fire. Stones from the old building were used in the construct...
We've long admired this building (1888 by R. P. Whellock) so we are delighted that Ian Visits posted about it and did a lot of the resear...
Around the top are some delightful reliefs in iron of the badges of early fire insurance companies: Sun, Phoenix, London and Royal Exchan...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them