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Temple Bar in 2012, with the Temple Bar Memorial in the centre. Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster.In the Middle Ages, London expanded city jurisdiction beyond its walls to gates, called 'bars', which were erected across thoroughfares.
Charles Bell Birch, sculptor Temple Bar marker topped by Birch's heraldic Dragon. Temple Bar marker in front of the Royal Courts of Justice. Statue of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield by Charles Bell Birch, 1883, outside St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Charles Bell Birch ARA (28 September 1832 – 16 October 1893) was a British ...
The earliest English equestrian statue. Originally commissioned in 1630 by Charles I's Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston, for his house Mortlake Park in Roehampton. Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when the pedestal was carved by Joshua Marshall. [18] Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2: John Bushnell
Temple Bar Memorial - Heritage Gateway. Prince Edward statue is by Joseph Boehm. Architect was Sir Horace Jones. Prince Edward, Prince of Wales - 1880: Date: 17 October 2009, 12:26: Source: Temple Bar Memorial - Fleet Street, City of London - statue of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) Author: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Temple Bar Marker. This is a list of public art in the City of London, including statues, busts, commemorative plaques and other memorials.. The City of London is the historic nucleus of London as well as its modern financial centre.
Video showed a collapse of the Temple Bar in Detroit Friday, with caution tape blocking off the historic dive bar. Detroit's historic Temple Bar, founded in 1927, closed indefinitely after partial ...
Fleet Street has a significant number of monuments and statues along its length, including the dragon at Temple Bar and memorials to a number of figures from the British press, such as Samuel Pepys and Lord Northcliffe. The street is mentioned in several works by Charles Dickens and is the home of the fictional murderer Sweeney Todd.
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.. The dig ...