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Royal Free Hospital Gray’s Inn Road

There are carved inscriptions below both pediments of this building which somehow seems too big for the street. Each works well within its space and shows up all the later versions saying Eastman Dental Hospital both beside the arch and on the newer building next door.

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Eastman Dental Hospital
Carved inscriptions

All stills for Royal Free Hospital

Eastman Dental Hospital

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Trajan lettering is used by the new owners. While good examples of the form, they don’t work with the architecture as well as the original.

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Trajan lettering is used by the new owners. While good examples of the form, they don’t work with the architecture as well as the original.

Click to download the original image.

Trajan lettering is used by the new owners. While good examples of the form, they don’t work with the architecture as well as the original.

Carved inscriptions

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Carved inscriptions on the pediments of the original building.

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Carved inscriptions on the pediments of the original building.

Click to download the original image.

Carved inscriptions on the pediments of the original building.