Parsons’ Library Doughty Street / Guilford Street
Despite being 2 feet high this is the most reticent building name discussed here – I must have cycled past it hundreds of times in the twelve years before writing-up the first version of this walk in 1997. For all intents and purposes the lettering is Gill Sans, but it is relief-carved out of brick and projects perhaps an inch from the wall itself. Like many of the other examples it forms a frieze just below parapet level.
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From almost underneath the depth of the lettering can be seen.
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On the Guilford Street façade the lettering reads IMORTALIS EST INGENII MEMORIA (Immortal is the memory of a genius).
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On the Guilford Street façade the lettering reads IMORTALIS EST INGENII MEMORIA (Immortal is the memory of a genius).
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On the Guilford Street façade the lettering reads IMORTALIS EST INGENII MEMORIA (Immortal is the memory of a genius).
Sir Charles Parsons
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A plaque on the Guilford Steet façade explains who Parsons was.