Person    | Male  Born 22/5/1849  Died 21/8/1930

Sir Aston Webb

Categories: Architecture

Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace, the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Aston Webb

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Aston Webb at Whiteley Village

This small enamel plaque looks as if it was installed when the cottages were ...

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St Bartholomew's Gatehouse

This delightful plaque has a crest at each end. The open gate rather spoils t...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Aston Webb

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London Troops War Memorial

Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...

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Queen Victoria Memorial

Shame about the nose. On the platform at the unveiling ceremony Brock was mad...

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Royal Artillery Boer War memorial

Bronze statue depicts War being controlled by Peace. Unveiled by the Duke of ...

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William III statue - W8

At Berliner-Schloss (with heavy use of translation tools) we learn that this ...

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St George's Tufnell Park

St George's Tufnell Park

We are as certain as can be, that this church in Tufnell Park Road is the St George's whose Band of Mercy was the donor of the drinking fountain at Limehouse Station.  Designed by George Truefitt f...

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W. G. R. Sprague

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