Erection date: 1904
{Beneath the portrait:}
Phineas Pett
{Above the portrait:}
1570 1647
{On the stained-glass plaque:}
Phineas Pett, the first Master of the Ship Wrights' Company, designed and built many great ships for the king's navy. Being maliciously accused of incompetency in building the "Prince Royal", he was tried by his royal master, King James himself, who graciously acquitted him.
Site: Woolwich Town Hall 1 (6 memorials)
SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall
In 1906 this building replaced the previous, also purpose-built, 1842 Woolwich town hall which still survives, nearby, on the corner of Calderwood Street and Polytechnic Street.
Designed by Alfred Brumwell Thomas, this building was built as Woolwich Town Hall which it was until 1965 when, following a shake-up of local councils, it became Greenwich Town Hall, Greenwich having had two previous town halls.
For another window and the Queen Victoria statue see Woolwich Town Hall 2.
We understand there are still more stained-glass windows in the town hall: depicting historic events in the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham and showing Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and the Launching of the ship Henry Grace à Dieu at Woolwich Dockyard in 1514. We could not find them, so they may be in private rooms.
The windows all date from 1904 and are by Geoffrey Webb.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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