Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project

Globe Playhouse Commemorative Relief, Park St. Photograph

Region ID

CL

Work ID

1161

Manual Reference

CLSK85

Title

Globe Playhouse Commemorative Relief, Park St.

Designer

Martin, William

Sculptor

Lanteri, Edward

Date of design

c. 1909

Year of unveiling

Unveiling details

Unveiled: Friday 8 October 1909, by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, President of the Shakespeare Reading Society

Road

Park St.

Precise Location

On a wall, on the south side of the street, opposite the Financial Times building, close to where Southwark Bridge Road crosses Park Street

A to Z Ref

OS Ref

Postcode

SE1

Work is

Extant

Listing Status

Don't know

Duty of Care

Commissioned by

Shakespeare Reading Society

Notes

In the upper left-hand part of the relief panel, a medallion bust of Shakespeare ‘after the Droeshout portrait’, above a rectangular panel with an inscription. The greater part of the relief is filled by a bas-relief representation of the Thames in the early part of the seventeenth century, with the south bank in the foreground. In addition to the Globe Theatre, notable landmarks are St Saviour’s (Southwark Cathedral) and old London Bridge.

Erected by the Shakespeare Reading Society.

circa

raw year

Condition

Good

At risk

No known risk

Inscriptions

In raised letters: - within a panel below Shakespeare’s bust : HERE STOOD THE / GLOBE PLAYHOUSE / OF SHAKESPEARE / 1598 – 1613 - across the bottom edge of the panel : COMMEMORATED BY THE SHAKESPEARE READING SOCIETY OF LONDON / AND BY SUBSCRIBERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INDIA

Signatures

On a thin strip below the relief, at right: WM MARTIN. MA. LLD. ESA DESIGNER. ED. LANTERI. S

Elements

Element Details

Part of work

Material

Dimensions

Relief

Bronze

107 x 168

Assessment of Condition

Surface Character: nothing recorded

Structural Condition: nothing recorded

Vandalism: nothing recorded