NOTES: The 'Sheela na gig' is a figure which can be seen on numerous other churches of the same period. Interpretations are many, and include the unattractiveness of lust, a Celtic fertility symbol, or a goddess.
NOTES: The Finsbury Health Centre was an attempt to rationalize the borough's health provision by providing on a single site a wide range of facilities, the needs of some of which could alter radically with time. Tecton's masterly solution to the complex circulation patterns such a multi-functional building entailed was hailed by architectural and medical critics alike as a prototype and a radical break with traditional health provision. The building is Grade I listed and was partly restored in the 1990s.
NOTES: The Finsbury Health Centre was an attempt to rationalize the borough's health provision by providing on a single site a wide range of facilities, the needs of some of which could alter radically with time. Tecton's masterly solution to the complex circulation patterns such a multi-functional building entailed was hailed by architectural and medical critics alike as a prototype and a radical break with traditional health provision. The building is Grade I listed and was partly restored in the 1990s.
NOTES: This is an example of one of the eight tunnel shelters constructed beneath London Underground stations during 1942 by the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) for the Ministry of Home Security.
NOTES: These details were drawn either by Anthony Salvin of a member of his office. Somerhill was built in around 1603 and Salvin was responsible for designing and executing alterations to the house between 1828 and 1838 for James Alexander.