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1 day ago · The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order 45 ft (14 m) high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
- 7 June 1753; 270 years ago
- Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, England, United Kingdom
4 days ago · Passing through Museum Street, we enter Great Russell Street, which runs from Tottenham Court Road to the north-west corner of Bloomsbury Square. It was built in the year 1670, and was named after the Russells, Earls and Dukes of Bedford.
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2 days ago · The collections (which also included a significant number of manuscripts and other library materials) were housed in Montagu House, Great Russell Street, and were opened to the public in 1759. The museum’s present building, designed in the Greek Revival style by Sir Robert Smirke , was built on the site of Montagu House in the period 1823 ...
May 2, 2024 · 2 May – 28 July 2024. Daily: 10.00–17.00 (Fridays 20.30) See full opening hours. Room 35. The Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery. Find Room 35. Tickets. Adults from £18, Members and under-16s free. See ticket information. Book tickets. In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for Rome, never to see his native city again.
A plan of part of the manor in 1664–5, preserved in the British Museum and reproduced in Clinch's Bloomsbury and St. Giles, shows that the western end of Great Russell Street and the whole of Bedford Square occupy the sites of two fields called Cowles Field and Cowles Pasture.
4 days ago · Bloomsbury Square owes its origin to Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, the son of Shakespeare's patron and friend, and also the father of Lady Rachel Russell, wife of Lord William Russell, whose tragic death we have recorded as the disgrace of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
4 days ago · It included two neighbourhoods noted for poverty and squalor: the St Giles Rookery between the church and Great Russell Street, and the Seven Dials north of Long Acre. These became a centre for criminality and prostitution and the name St Giles became associated with the underworld, gambling houses and the consumption of gin.
