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Prepared by THE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL, under the direction of the Local Government, Records J and Museums Committee' of- die Council.* PRIMKD FOR THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL BY SOl'THWOOD, SMITH AND CO., LTU. And may be purchased through any Bookseller or direct from P. S. KING AND SON, 2 anti 4, Great Smith-btrkkt, Victoria-street, Westminster. SAV, Agents for tht zalt of the publications of the London County Council. I9IO. No. 1359. Price is. Od. Post Free is. 8$d >oo—25.7.10—337 „ S.S. 1776 v* 28 OCT. 1920 ^iTJCAL- — 4 * » » • •• • • < • * • • • • • « • • •- • • ... .. • • • ••••• -470 PREFACE The following is an extract from the report of the Local - Government, Records and Museums Committee, submitted /» to the Council on 5th July, 1910 : We have for some time held the opinion that the pre- paration of a return of outdoor memorials in London would form a valuable addition to literature concerning London, and would meet a great want. Nothing of the kind is at the present time published, and communications are from time to time received asking whether it is possible to purchase a book or pamphlet containing particulars of London memorials. We have, accordingly, had prepared a return of outdoor statues and other memorials in London specifying, in the case of statues, date of material (1) name of sculptor ; (2) erection ; (3) custodian and such additional and description ; (4) ; (5) it desirable to record and in the particulars as appears ; case of other monuments (1) date of erection ; (2) Illustrations of of the material ; and (3) custodian. 24 most important memorials will be inserted in the volume, which has been prepared to harmonise with the Council's publication, Indication, of Houses of Historical Interest. The preparation of the return has been a work of some available. difficulty, as comparatively little material was From time to time lists have been published, particularly in Notes and Queries, where the subject has been discussed on several occasions, but these lists have rarely included any but the more important of the statues, and have practically omitted altogether the more humble memorials.* It is probably in the case of the latter that this return will be found most *A series of articles is now appearing in the Home Counties Magazine, but these are entirely confined to statues. 357 incomplete, for in spite of the great trouble which has been taken to obtain information as to memorial drinking fountains, tablets, and such small memorials, it can hardly be hoped that there are no omissions from the return. The Council will welcome information which will either correct an error or fill up an omission in the return. I have to express my thanks to all who have kindly furnished me with information for use in the return, and in particular to the Secretary of H.M. Office of Works, the Secretary to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, and the Town Clerks of several Metro- politan Boroughs who have taken much trouble to help the Council in this matter. G. L. Gomme, Clerk of the Council. RETURN OF OUTDOOR MEMORIALS IN LONDON. The following return of statues and other memorials does not purport to form a complete list of all such memorials in London. Those which have been omitted intentionally may be divided into the following classes : — i. Statues within buildings. —The monuments in St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and such places will readily occur to the reader. In addition there may be mentioned such statues as thoss of Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and II. in the Charles I. Charles Royal Exchange ; Edward VI., in the in the and Henrietta Maria Guildhall ; Shakespeare in the Natural British Museum ; Charles Darwin History in the hall of Euston Museum ; George Stephenson booking Station. 2. Statues on the exterior of buildings. —Among these refer- ence may be made to those of Sir Thomas Gresham, Sir Hugh Myddelton, and Richard Whittington* on the Royal on church of St. Dunstan- Exchange ; Queen Elizabethf the m-the-West Sir Sir ; Thomas Gresham, Hugh Myddelton, Sir William Walworth, and Henry FitzEylwin,f on buildings Holborn-viaduct VIII. in a niche over adjoining ; Henry § the of St. Bartholomew's gateway Hospital ; George I.|| '* By William Behncs, Samuel Joseph, and J. E. Carew respectively, and erected in 1844-45. f This statue originally formed part of the ornamentation of the new Lud-gate built in 1586. The gate was removed in 1760 and the statuary given to Sir Francis Gosling, who caused the statue of the Queen to be placed in a niche at the east end of St. Dunstan's Church. On the subsequent demolition of the church it seems to have been lost sight of. Some years later it was discovered in the cellar of an house Art adjoining {Woolwich Advertiser, 27th April, 1839 ; Union, May, 1839), and in May, 1839, it was placed in the position it now occupies. Erected in Bursill. X 1869 ; sculptor, Henry § Erected in 1702, sculptor unknown. Presented Mr. William a brewer. |! " by Hucks, When Henry the 8th left the Pope in the lurch, The Protestants made him the head of the church. But George's good subjects, the Bloomsbury people, Instead of the church, made him head of the steeple." Inasmuch as the church was only consecrated on 28th January, 1731, it has been suggested that the statue was intended to represent George II., not his father. But the church is spoken of as completed by 8th January, 1724 (? 1725) {Commissioners' appointment of Parish, quoted by Parton, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 336), and the statue is referred to as being in position in A dialogue between the gentleman who looks over Lincoln and the gentleman on Bloomsbury Church, the date of which seems limited by internal evidence to the years 1724-25. on the tower of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury ; Mary, Fleet-street the Earl Queen of Scots, on Nos. 143 and 144, ; -court on of Essex,* in Devereux ; John Bunyan, Baptist Sir Thomas in Church House, Southampton-row ; More,t a niche on a house at the corner of Serle-street and Carey- on the of Lane street ; William Shakespeare,! poitico Drary in niche over the main entrance Theatre ; Sir Robert Geffryes, to the Ironmongers' Almshouses, Kingsland-road ; twenty-two of the Civil philosophers, scientists, etc.,§ on the offices Edward Service Commission, Burlington-gardens ; King VII., Queen Alexandra, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and thirty-two|| the Victoria craftsmen, painters, sculptors and architects on Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington ; Queen (4), Office Edward Henry III., and Edward III., on the Record ; I. and Edward VII., on the National Provincial; Bank, High Earl on St. Peter's and St. Holborn ; Derby (a bust) James's statesmen and others National School, Great Wmdmill-street ; on the buildings of the Foreign Office, India Office, Colonial of statues on new such as Office, etc. ; and a number hotels, the Hotel Russell (statues in terra-cotta of Queens Elizabeth, busts in terra-cotta of Earl Mary II., Anne and Victoria ; Russell, Lord Palmerston, Earl Derby and the Earl of Beacons- in terra-cotta of field), the Imperial Hotel (statues King Edward VII., Queen Alexandra, Julius Caesar and Charle- magne), the Savoy Hotel (bronze gdt statue of Peter, Count of Savoy). A bust and a portrait medallion of Lord Byron, although attached to buildings, have been included in the return, as they mark the site of residences. 3. Memorials in the nature of tombstones. 4. Memorial buildings, such as the Memorial Hall, Farring- don-street ; the Dulwich College Library.** — are so 5. Memorial trees. These apparently numerous, and there is so little information concerning them, that it * " A bust, with the legend : This is Deveraux Courte, 1676." in 1886. Robert f Erected by Mr. G. M. Arnold, Sculptor, Smith, of Scheemaker's statue. % A reproduction (but smaller) § Bentham, Milton, Newton, Harvey (by Joseph Durham) ; Plato, F. Aris- Archimedes, Justinian (by W. Woodington) ; Cicero, Galen, Adam Smith William totle (by J. S. Westmacott) ; Locke, Bacon, (by Linneus Patrick ; Theed) ; Leibnitz, Cuvier, (by Macdowell) Hume, Matthew La Hunter, Sir Humphrey Davy (by Noble) ; Galileo, Place, Goethe (by E. W. Wyon). Wni. Caxton, Geo. Henot, H. Shaw, Thos. || St. Dunstan, Torel, Wm. Morris Tompion, Chippendale, Roger Payne, ; Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Ronmey, Cosway, Turner, Constable, Watts, Leighton, Bacon, Flaxman, Chantrey, Foley, Millais ; Grinling Gibbons, John William oi Alfred Stevens ; Wykeham, John Thorpe, Inigo Jones, Wren, Wm. Chambers, Chas. Barry. ** A memorial to Old Alleynians who were killed during the South African War. has been deemed advisable to omit them. Mention should, however, be made of the Shakespeare Oak planted on Prim- rose-hill on 23rd April, 1864, to commemorate the tercen- tenary of Shakespeare's birth. It is well, to" call attention to the fact that the perhaps, " " return is strictly limited to objects which are of a memorial character.
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