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.