Erection date: 1957
Note the bee on the wall below his feet. Bees are associated with Saint Ambrose who had a notable influence on Augustine. That's the only explanation that we have for the bee.
EC2, Austin Friars, Augustine House, 6a
On the side wall of Augustine House, next to the Dutch Church.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Augustine statue
Theologian and philosopher. Also known as Augustine of Hippo. Born in Thagast...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Augustine statue
Painter and sculptor. Born John Rattenbury Skeaping in South Woodford, Essex....
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
This statue was made in 1866 and erected in front of the War Office, then at Cumberland House, Pall Mall (now replaced with 89, the RAC b...
The sculptor's name is inscribed on the stone below the feet.
The horses look totally out of control to us; no wonder the two daughters look so worried.
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