John Heminges and Henry Condell Memorial

John Heminges and Henry Condell Memorial
John Heminges and Henry Condell Memorial
Artist	C. J. Allen
Year	1895–1896
Location	St Mary Aldermanburyold churchyard, City of London

TheJohn Heminges and Henry Condell Memorialis a memorial to the actorsJohn HemingesandHenry Condell– the editors ofWilliam Shakespeare'sFirst Folio,published in 1623 – in the former churchyard ofSt Mary Aldermanburyon Love Lane, LondonEC2.The memorial is made from pink granite and is topped with a bust of Shakespeare byC. J. Allen,dated 1895.^[1]

The memorial was commissioned by Charles Clement Walker, manager of the Midlands Ironworks inDonington,Shropshire, and a Shakespeare enthusiast. C. J. Allen had previously exhibited a bust of Walker at theRoyal Academyin 1894. His bust for this memorial is combines the features of what the patron regarded as the two most accepted likenesses of Shakespeare: the bust onhis funerary monumentin Stratford-upon-Avon and theDroeshout portraiton the frontispiece of the First Folio.^[1]

The memorial was unveiled on 15 July 1896, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor of London, the American ambassador, the actor SirHenry IrvingandLord Ronald Gower,an acquaintance of Walker's and the sculptor of a memorial to Shakespeare in Stratford.^[1]

The memorial falls under the present-dayecclesiastical parishofSt Vedast Foster Lane,in theCity of London deaneryof theDiocese of London.It has beenGrade II listedsince 1972.^[2]

References

^^a ^b ^cWard-Jackson, Philip (2003).Public Sculpture of the City of London.Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 1–3.
^Historic England,"Monument to John Heminge and Henry Condell in former churchyard of Church of St Mary Aldermanbury (1064772)",National Heritage List for England,retrieved16 May2015