Erection date: 1676
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This is Devereux Court, 1676.
WC2, Devereux Court
This bust was brought to our attention by , where its claim to carry the oldest inscription in London is debunked. Â The bust is at third floor level in a narrow passage - don't know how we missed it.
The building was erected in 1676 and soon became the Grecian Coffee House which it remained until about 1842.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Devereux bust
Born in Essex House. Â He was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Essex, and the last...
The Guardian reports: "the first stand-alone memorial to an Asian woman in the UK" and elsewhere we read that it is "one of the few anywh...
According to the plaque these are, clockwise from top left:Â Debra Lee, Phineas Pett, Tsar Peter the Great, Dr Burnhart Gloss, Catherine o...
The arcade contains four modern busts, left to right: Pepys Cromwell Shakespeare Wren and a statue of Whittington to the left.
The building by E. R. Robson was erected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, founded in 1831 (the crest in the centre of...
So far (2011) the demolition and building works associated with Cross Rail have left this pub alone.
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