SCULPTURE ON LONDON’S BUILDINGS
A good day in London looking at some interesting buildings
with great sculpture and a lovely sunny day to add dimension to the photographs
taken – a selection will be put on FotoLIBRA in due course.
Starting in Trafalgar Square with SOUTH AFRICA HOUSE 1931-33 by Sir Herbert Baker and Alexandra
Thomson Scott, a large Portland Stone faced building set on one side of Trafalgar
Square . Decorative carvings in Portland Stone by Joseph Armitage to designs by
Sir Charles Wheeler, also by Wheeler a gilded Springbok leaping from the wall,
high up a coat of arms by Armstrong. Listed Grade 11*
A short walk along the Strand, past Charing Cross and the
next building ZIMBABWE HOUSE formally Rhodesia House, 1906-08 by Charles Holden.
In neo-mannerist style with grey Cornish and Portland Stone cladding and niches
containing mutilated figures by Jacob Epstein. Listed Grade 11*
Through Covent Garden (an area I know well from having
worked there at The Lady magazine in Bedford Street) to Freemasons’ Hall, a monumental
structure built 1927-32, by Architects H V Ashley and F Winton Newman. Loads of
Portland Stone and with imposing entrance columns and bronze doors. Listed
Grade 11*
Then onto the city of London ...
