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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 ...
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).
After Wren's gateway was removed in 1878, the Temple Bar Memorial topped by a dragon symbol of London, and containing statues of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, was erected to mark the location. Wren's archway was preserved and was re-erected in 2004 within the City of London, in a redeveloped Paternoster Square next to St Paul's Cathedral.
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 Group's headquarters are in Paternoster Square. Paternoster Square was the initial target for the protesters of Occupy London on 15 October 2011. Attempts to occupy the square were thwarted by police. [19] Police sealed off the entrance to the square as it is private property, a High Court injunction having previously been granted against ...
However, only part of Holford's concept plan was carried out between 1961 and 1967, foremost the Paternoster Square development between St Paul's churchyard and Newgate Street. St Paul's churchyard and Newgate Street immediately north of one of the capital's prime tourist attractions was widely considered grim and an embarrassment.
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2: John Bushnell: Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1671 John Bushnell [21] Soho Square: 1681 Caius Gabriel Cibber: Royal Exchange: 1789–91 John Spiller [22] Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1865–71 Henry Weekes [23] James II: Trafalgar Square: 1686 Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of ...