SW1, Great Smith Street
The foundation stone is immediately to the right of the central entrance.
Above the entrance: "Westminster Public Library, The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the Evangelist, AD 1893". In 1985 this building was threatened with demolition and was only saved by a campaign which brought about the Thorney Island Society.
The identifies the heads for us, and we've numbered them left to right.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 3 - Chaucer
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate (1374-86) as the ‘Comptr...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Old Westminster Library - head 3 - Chaucer
Westminster Public Library The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the...
We first thought Francis Bacon but he normally has more hair, and, so far, al...
The hair seems a bit too curly but the sad eyes are right.
Designed by Charles Holden and built 1927 – 1929 as HQ for Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the main forerunner of London...
The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...
This style of bust, called a herm bust, originated in ancient Greece. Oddly, male genitalia are sometimes carved on the plain section, in...
We again thank David Hopkins for the Latin transcription (from some tortuous Gothic lettering) and translation. We've searched but the r...
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