Memorial to Dame Louisa Blake
London
Greater London, England
WC1H 9LD
Lutyens’s 1926 memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich‑Blake in Tavistock Square is a semicircular stone seat with central column, bearing back‑to‑back bronze busts by A. G. Walker flanked by serpent‑and‑staff emblems and inscribed tablets recording her medical career.
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Description
In TAVISTOCK SQUARE,…In the Gardens, bronze statue of Gandhi, c. 1968 by Fredda Brilliant, and a MEMORIAL to Louisa Aldrich Blake 1925: seat and base by Lutyens, bronze busts by A.G.Walker. (Cherry & Pevsner, 1998, p.327)
Memorial seat and busts of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake. 1926. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and AG Walker. Semicircular stone seat and base by Lutyens. Rising from the centre of the seat back a stone column with, on the back and front, identical bronze busts, holding a book, by Walker and inscribed tablets giving details of her career. On either side a bronze serpent and staff. (Historic England, list entry 1378970)
Bibliography
Historic England.MEMORIAL TO DAME LOUISA ALDRICH BLAKE IN TAVISTOCK SQUARE GARDENS. [Online] Available from: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1378970?section=official-list-entry
Cherry B & Pevsner N (1998) LONDON 4: NORTH. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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