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Title
Mermaid Corbels
Date
1903
Medium
Hopton Wood stone
Measurements
H 75 x W 705 x D (?) cm
Accession number
SE5_AS_S121
Acquisition method
commissioned by Passmore Edwards
Work type
Relief
Owner
Southwark London Borough Council
Custodian
Southwark London Borough Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
18th May 1903
Listing date
27/09/72
Access
at all times
Inscription description
over the former library (north-facing) entrance: PASSMORE / EDWARDS / PUBLIC / LIBRARY On a tablet set into the wall beneath the bay window: BOROUGH OF CAMBERWELL. / PUBLIC LIBRARY. THIS FOUNDATION / STONE WAS LAID JULY 25. 1901. BY / J. PASSMORE EDWARDS ESQ. THE / DONOR OF THE BUILDING WHICH / HAS BEEN ERECTED ON LAND / GENEROUSLY GIVEN BY THE RIGHT / HONOURABLE THE LORD LLANGATTOCK. / MATTHEW WALLACE J.P. MAYOR / CHARLES WILLIAM TAGG TOWN CLERK / MAURICE B. ADAMS F.R.I.B.A. & WILLIAM / OXTOBY A.M.I.C.E. JOINT ARCHITECTS; on a tablet to the right of the former public baths entrance: BOROUGH OF CAMBERWELL / LADY LLANGATTOCK LAID / THE FOUNDATION STONE OF / THESE PUBLIC BATHS AND / WASH-HOUSES ON THURSDAY / 25TH JULY 1901. ERECTED / ON LAND GENEROUSLY GIVEN / BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE / THE LORD LLANGATTOCK. / MATTHEW WALLACE J.P. MAYOR / CHARLES WILLIAM TAGG. TOWN / CLERK. MAURICE B. ADAMS F.R.I.B.A. / AND WILLIAM OXTOBY A.M.I.C.E. / JOINT ARCHITECTS
