Erection date: 9/9/2012
Nike (pronounced Neekay)
Ancient Greek goddess of victory.
Spirit of the Games sculptor, Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis.
We think the last line of the plaque means that Kougioumtzis is the sculptor of the Spirit of the Games, not, as we first read it that he is, himself, the Spirit of the Games who is also the sculptor.
SE18, Number 1 Street, Main Guardhouse
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
Sculptor. Born in Drama, Macedonia, Greece. 2018: Versions of his statue of ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
{Below an image of the Olympic torch:} A gift from the people of ancient Olym...
Presented to the Mayor and Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Councill...
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{Below an image of the discus thrower:} The Ancient Games The ancient Olympic...
Unveiled by Simon Callow, who was the first actor to play the part of Mozart in the Peter Shaffer play 'Amadeus', at the National Theatre...
Laid 60 years to the day after the plaque laid by the Duchess of York. From Pollard Thomas Edwards: "Project: Old Royal Free Square. Yea...
We failed to find this plaque in Dec-Jan 2017. It shows a Garthwaite "silk design" similar but not identical to that on the Silk Design (...
Gilbert Bayes, 1872 - 1953, sculptor, lived here 1931 - 1953. English Heritage
Looking across the river you can see the low roof of St Magnus the Martyr between the two modern blocks.
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