Photographs and text by George P. Landow. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
St. Pancras and St. George. St. Pancras Public Baths and Public Hall. London. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
First and second class entrances. The British Listed Buildings site identifies the spandrel figures on the second-class entrance as reclining river gods and those on the first-class one as “reclining figures of Aqua and Eura.”
Left: a grotesque humanoid creature above the spandrel with river gods. Right: A women's face whose streaming Art Nouveau hair matches the lettering on the building.
As Robert Freidus pointed out, the sculptor depicted Tower Bridge in the upper left corner.
Left to right: The terracotta acanthus frieze, the roofline, and the Art Nouveau lettering above the entrances on the main fa�ade.
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Photographs George P. Landow. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Last modified 21 April 2013