3674 x 5616 px | 31,1 x 47,5 cm | 12,2 x 18,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1. August 2018
Ort:
J.P. Morgan, 60 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0JP, UK
Weitere Informationen:
The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is an independent day school for boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, opposite Tate Modern. It is a partner school of the City of London School for Girls and the City of London Freemen's School All three schools receive funding from the City's Cash.[1] It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school was founded by a private Act of Parliament in 1834, following a bequest of land in 1442 for poor children in the City of London. The original school was established at Milk Street, moving to the Victoria Embankment in 1879 and its present site on Queen Victoria Street in 1986. he Victoria Embankment building, a grand building said to be in the Italian Renaissance style but actually in a high Victorian style with a steep pitched roof resembling that of a French chateau, was designed by Davis and Emanuel and constructed by John Mowlem & Co. at a cost exceeding £100, 000 (about £11, 158, 064.52 in 2016).[8] The designers designed the school as "amazingly unscholastic, rather like a permanent Exhibition Palace."[10] On the front of the building are statues of Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Newton and Sir Thomas More with "the first four emphasising the school's literary and scientific traditions [and] the last being a religious martyr, a famous lawyer and the author of Utopia."[9] The building remained the home of the City of London School for a hundred years, although the site expanded to include not only the original building on the Victoria Embankment itself, but a range of buildings at right angles along the whole of John Carpenter Street, which was named after the founder of the school, and further buildings constructed at the back along Tudor Street, with the school playground, Fives courts and cloisters enclosed within the site. These other buildings were demolished when the school moved again in 1986.
