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The historic square was formerly the site of Newgate Market, a meat market serving much of London. By the late nineteenth [1] century it was called Paternoster Square, taking the name from Paternoster Row. It was accessed on the north by Rose Street (originally Roe Street), the west by White Hart Street and the south and east by alleys, which ...
The sculpture was commissioned by Stanhope and Mitsubishi Estate, who jointly developed the Paternoster Square site, to provide ventilation for a subsurface electrical substation with four electricity transformers under Bishop’s Court on the west side of the development. Thomas Heatherwick's design reduces the physical mass of the structure ...
View along Queen's Head Passage of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during World War II.In 2003 the area was pedestrianised with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange, at the west end and a paved area around St Pauls' Coop and an entrance to St Pauls tube station at the East, bounded by St Pauls Churchyard, New Change ...
The Sator Square (or Rotas-Sator Square or Templar Magic Square) is a two-dimensional acrostic class of word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome. [1] The earliest squares were found at Roman-era sites, all in ROTAS-form (where the top line is "ROTAS", not "SATOR"), with the earliest discovery at Pompeii (and also likely pre-AD 62).
Paternoster (FCR 243), also known as Shepherd and Sheep or Shepherd with his Flock, [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture of 1975 by Elisabeth Frink, installed in Paternoster Square near St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. [2] The sculptural group measures 84 by 129 by 32 inches (213 cm × 328 cm × 81 cm).
Amen Corner is a street located off Ave Maria Lane, just to the west of St. Paul's Cathedral and between the Old Bailey and Paternoster Square, in the City of London. On the feastday of Corpus Christi, monks would say prayers in a procession to St. Paul's Cathedral.
During much of the company's first two decades T. Fisher Unwin's office was located at Paternoster Square, London [7] and in 1905 it relocated to 1 Adelphi Square, London (with a branch at Inselstrasse 20, Leipzig). [8] Thomas Fisher Unwin's latterly more famous nephew Stanley Unwin started his career by working in his uncle's firm.
Peter Ellis (1805–1884) [1] was a British architect and inventor of the paternoster lift from Liverpool. He is best-known for designing Oriel Chambers , built in 1864, which is the world's first building to feature a metal-framed glass curtain wall . [ 2 ]