Erection date: 1868
{On a granite plaque below the statue:}
Sir Thomas Gresham, born c.1519, died 1579
EC4, Holborn Viaduct, Gresham House
Holborn Viaduct is watched over by four memorial statues:
north-west corner -Â Walworth
south-west corner - Fitz Eylwin
south-east corner - Gresham
north-east corner - Myddelton.
The Walworth page contains information about Holborn Viaduct itself.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Holborn Viaduct - Gresham
Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshop...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Holborn Viaduct - Gresham
Bursill also sculpted the allegorical statues on Holborn bridge and seems to ...
Unusually the model for this statue is known: Webber. Our thanks to his great grandson, Simon North, for letting us know.
We have a query concerning the designe of this statue . . . Firstly, note that in 1883 Boehm had already produced a similar Napier statu...
This identification of the statues on front of this building is only tentative, suggested by Ornamental Passions.
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell portrait.
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