Discovering London Statues and Monuments

Margaret Baker

Osprey Publishing, Mar 4, 2008 - Travel - 128 pages

Londoners are especially fortunate in the richness of their monumental heritage. Few streets in the cities of London and Westminster are without some inscribed reminder of a past worthy or cause; others are crowded with them. Margaret Baker here explains some of the reasons for London's sculpted gallery and describes the subjects, the donors, the sculptors and the results. From the sixteenth-century statue of Queen Elizabeth I in Fleet Street to Montgomery, with his back to the Ministry of Defence, this book will prove a rich source of fact and anecdote, a who's who in bronze and stone in the capital city. This completely revised edition, now extended to include memorials throughout Greater London, has over six hundred entries, from Haile Selassie to Oscar Wilde, from Sikorski to Hogarth. Other titles by this author are: Discovering the Folklore of Plants Discovering Christmas Customs and Traditions

Contents

• Introduction: 4
• Charing Cross Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square: 6
• Whitehall and Horse Guards: 16
• Westminster to Millbank: 26
• Chelsea and Battersea: 42
• Around the Mall and St Jamess Park: 50
• Piccadilly and Bond Street: 60
• Hyde Park and Belgravia: 63
• Knightsbridge and Kensington: 70
• Around Oxford Street: 82
• Bloomsbury Euston and Camden Town: 95
• Paddington to Regents Park: 105
• Strand to Fleet Street: 112
• Westminster to Blackfriars: 125
• Holborn to St Pauls: 139
• St Pauls: 145
• The Bank and Royal Exchange: 151
• The City and north to Islington: 155
• Cornhill to Tower Hill: 165
• The East End and Docklands: 166
• Kennington to London Bridge: 175
• London Bridge to Rotherhithe: 182
• Greenwich and Woolwich: 187
• South London: 197
• Westwards from Putney: 203
• North London: 209
• Bibliography: 216
• Maps: 217
• Index: 221

About the author

Margaret Baker was a frequent contributor to the American Orchid Society Bulletin. She was an avid amateur orchid enthusiast and with her husband Charles previously wrote "Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium" and "Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione" published by Timber Press. Margaret Baker died in 2003.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Discovering London Statues and Monuments; Volume 42 of Shire Discovering; Volume 42 of Shire book
• Author: Margaret Baker
• Edition: 5, illustrated
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2008
• ISBN: 0747804958, 9780747804956
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Art / Sculpture & Installation; Travel / Europe / Great Britain; Travel / Reference