Posts Tagged With: plaque

The Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Louise Jayne

The Church of the Holy Rude is directly next to Stirling Castle – I’d spotted its interestingly designed building on the way up to the castle and made sure to visit on my way back down. One of the church’s main claims to fame is that Mary, Queen of Scots worshipped here and her infant son James was crowned here as James VI of Scots in 1567. This church and Westminster Abbey in London are the only churches in Britain where a coronation has taken place and that is still used regularly for worship.

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Categories: Scotland, Stirling | Tags: architecture, history, Mary Queen of Scots, photo post, plaque, scottish history, stained glass, stained glass window | 3 Comments

Fitzrovia Chapel, London

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Louise Jayne

Fitzrovia Chapel is another place I visited as part of Open House London last year, somewhere that had been on my radar since seeing some pictures on Instagram, and I was pleased to have my expectations exceeded. Designed by John Loughborough Pearson in 1891 it was built as a tranquil space for the staff and former patients of Middlesex Hospital but by the time the chapel was finished and opened in 1929 the hospital had been demolished.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: chapel, hospital chapel, marble, Open House London, photo post, plaque, stained glass, stained glass window | Leave a comment

London Plaques – Part 3

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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Here’s another post about some of the plaques to be found around London. The first is on the site of the Westminster office of the Penny Post, on Gerrard Street, the first building to operate as a post office in Westminster in 1794. The London Penny Post itself was established in 1680 to deliver mail around London for, you guessed it, one penny. The Two Penny Post was established in 1801.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: blue plaque, history, penny post, photo post, plaque, sir david low, sir osbert sitwell, sybil thorndike, william makepeace thackerey | Leave a comment

London Plaques – Part 2

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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In this occasional series on London plaques, the first remembers John Peake Knight, an engineer from Nottingham who was a railway manager and inventor of the world’s first traffic lights.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: blue plaque, chelsea china, edmund burke, jenny lind, john peake knight, photo post, plaque, tobias smollett | Leave a comment

London Plaques – Part 1

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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One of the things I keep an eye out for on my travels is plaques, be they official blue or green or otherwise, and London has an abundance of them. Often I’ll recognise the name even if I don’t know a lot about them but I’ll also stumble across an intriguing plaque that leads me to do more research. As such this will be a continuing series, focusing on plaques found in London and the history behind them, from the well-known to the more obscure.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: blue plaque, luke fildes, marcus stone, marie taglioni, phil may, photo post, plaque | 3 Comments

Dr Johnson’s House

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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Dr Johnson’s House is the 300 year old townhouse where Samuel Johnson lived and worked compiling his dictionary. Built by Richard Gough, a wool merchant, his is the only house to have survived from that time, including being damaged during the Blitz. It is nestled away down side streets off Fleet Street and it was a little tricky to find, though this could equally have been down to me paying more attention to photographing the area as it was to a surprising lack of signage.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: black history, cat, david garrick, Francis Barber, london, plaque, samuel johnson, stained glass, stained glass window, statue | Leave a comment

Nottingham: The Plaque Addition – Part One

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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Continuing the theme of Nottingham architecture, this post explores some of the plaques in the city dedicated to people or significant events. As I’m discovering a lot lately, I’ve passed by many of these without noticing them before.

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Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Tags: bendigo, black history, george africanus, local history, Lord Byron, malt cross, nottingham, photo post, plaque, Thomas Adams, william thompson | Leave a comment

Leighton House Museum

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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Leighton House Museum is the only purpose built studio house open to the public, being the home of Frederick Leighton, a Victorian artist. He had the house designed to his precise requirements as a place where he could work, house his collections of art and receive visitors, which included Queen Victoria.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: Arab Hall, art studio, Frederick Leighton, Leighton House Museum, london, museum, photo post, plaque | Leave a comment

Tyburn Convent

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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On my last trip to London I decided to head out to Marble Arch and take a photograph of the Tyburn Tree plaque which marks the site where the famous gallows were located. It was while researching its exact location that I discovered the existence of Tyburn Convent which houses a crypt with relics of the martyrs who died at Tyburn.

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Categories: England, London | Tags: crypt, london, martyrs, nuns, photo post, plaque, relics, stained glass, stained glass window, tyburn, tyburn convent, tyburn tree | 3 Comments

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