Volunteering Days
Friends of Red Lion Square meet up on the first saturay of each month. The next session will be on Satuday 3 September form 11-1pm. Please meet us at Red Lion Cafe at 10.30am for a coffee and a chat!
Join the Friends
The next meeting of the Friends of Red Lion Square Gardens at 6 p.m. at the Tenants Association Hall, Lambs Conduit Passage (off Red Lion Square by Conway Hall, down the ramp by Tresham House, WC1R 4RE). Please come to support the Friends to help us make the Gardens, this small historic oasis in the …
1960 – Present day
In 1955-56, the ruins of 35 Red Lion Square were transformed by Lander, Bells and Crompton into Churchill House, with Sir Winston Churchill laying the foundation stone on 24th April 1956. Commissioned by Cassells Publishers the building was enhanced by a bronze statue of a reclining nude Pocahontas by the sculptor David McFall, cast by …
1860 – 1960
Around 1860, John Philipps Emslie painted the east side of Red Lion Square, in particular Nos. 22, 23 and 24. According to Edwin Beresford Chancellor’s edition of The History of the Squares of London, 1907, No. 24 was the Ancient Baronial Court, held under the authority of the Sheriffs of Middlesex. “It is held monthly” (says …
1760 – 1860
As the Eighteenth Century continued, Professor Theo Barker remarks that the Square “grew less fashionable” with some of the upper echelons of society moving away. For example, Sir Bysshe Shelley eventually moved away, and even built Castle Goring in Sussex, after living in the Square in 1753 where his wife gave birth to their son …
1660 – 1760
As Professor Theo Barker introduces in his Three Hundred Years of Red Lion Square: 1684-1984, “The laying out of Red Lion Square in June 1684 was marked by scenes of violent protest which obligingly enable us to date the event with some precision”. Barker also includes William Morgan’s map of 1682, which immediately predates the …