Plaque

Viscount Milton at Pimlico Grammar School

Erection date: 14/5/1830

Inscription

HUJUSCE AEDIFICII
PRIMUM LAPIDEM POSUIT
VIR HONORATISSIMUS UICECOMES MILTON
PRID ID MAII MDCCCXXX
OUOD OPUS SUSCEPTUM AD PUERORUM INSTITUTIONEM
CHRISTI FIDE MORIEUS ARTIBUS AC LITERIS
SPIRITUS SACROSANCTUS SECUNDET

{Translated from the Latin:}
The Right Honourable Viscount Milton laid the first stone of this building on 14 May 1830.  May the Holy Spirit direct this task, undertaken for the instruction of boys in Christ’s faith and moral and literary arts.

Site: Ian Fleming + Pimlico Grammar School (2 memorials)

SW1, Ebury Street, 22

Designed by J. P. Gandy-Deering in 1830 as a non-conformist school in what was then known as Watkins Place. It later housing the Pimlico Literary Institution. In about 1930 the building was divided into 4 flats, now called 'studios'. ‘Ian Fleming’ by Andrew Lycett says that Fleming took over the lease of 22b from Sir Oswald Mosley. This was the top half of the “chapel like interior”. He moved in c.1936.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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