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The Monumental Eton College “Classical Museum” Portland Stone Chimneypiece
the rectangular shelf above the frieze carved with over-scrolling acanthus and flowerheads centred with a massive corbelled keystone, the outer jambs ornamented with bell-flower pendants, the bolection moulded aperture raised on stepped foot-blocks,
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This fireplace has been salvaged and built at LASSCO Three Pigeons – the first time it has stood in 88years. Made in 1905 by one of the finest stonemasons in Edwardian London – Abraham Broadbent – it was the centrepiece of a glorious Wren-style complex of buildings including a new School Hall, Library and Classical Museum that were built as a Memorial to Old Etonians who died in the Second Boer War. The fireplace was dismantled and hidden under the floorboards in 1935. Read the full story here.
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