Outline
itinerary for Sunday 25th March 2012
Final details subject to weather and group size and may
change en-route (max. 3 hours)
10.30 onwards. Meet up in Wetherspoons The Liberty Bounds,
Trinity Square, Tower Hill.
11.00 pre walk briefing outside Wetherspoons.
Then looking at and photographing
in and around the Mercantile Marine Memorial. 1922 by Edwin Lutyens and 1955 by Edward Maufe. Sculpture by Sir Charles Wheeler (rather interesting
subjects)
Look at Trinity House,
1792-4 by Samuel Wyatt, Doric facade
restored after WW2, then the ex PLA Building
1912-22 by Edwin Cooper with giant
sized statues by A H Hodge.
Walk to the Custom
House 1813-17, river front rebuilt 1825 by Robert Smirke, then along to the old Billingsgate Market building 1841-4 by Horace Jones, look up at roof details.
Onward to St Dunstan
in the East, tower 1698 by Christopher
Wren (one of his most attractive) – body of the church destroyed in WW2.
Walk to 33/35
Eastcheap, an outstanding Gothic building in red and black brick, 1868 by R L Roumieu
and then to 23/25 Eastcheap a corner
building in polychrome brick, 1861-2 by John
Young & Son.
Coffee break?
Reverse route and look at 20 Eastcheap Peak House, 1883-5 by Peebles, Graeco-Eqyptian details with camel relief by Theed.
Turn down St Mary at Hill to look at 6/7 St Mary at Hill, an interesting building 1873 building by Earnest George and Vaughan, note
entrance to the church.
Further down is Watermans
Hall, 1778-80 by William Blackburn. Then a short walk to The Monument, 1671-7 by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke – look at the large relief
by Cibber.
Walk onto London
Bridge and look at Adelaide House
1924-5 with an Egyptian inclination by Sir
John Burnet Tait & Partners and on one side of road with Fishmongers Hall on the other side, 1831-4
by Henry Roberts in Greek Revival
style, best seen from the centre of the bridge.
14.00 End of walk. Continue over bridge to London Bridge
Station or back to Monument Station.
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