Tag: Gravesend

• The Lions of London, Part 1

  

  A marker to the dead can take many forms. A simple slab. A towering obelisk. A niche in a wall. Or as a ruddy great lion. Lions in cemeteries – not actual lions, although wouldn’t that be something – exist in funerary sculpture and are almost as impressive as seeing the real thing. There are…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 12, 2021

  Animals, art, Cemeteries, History, London, People, Sport

  art, big cat, Boxing, Brompton, Cemetery, Chelsea, Gravesend, Iran, Lion, London, Sculptor, Sculpture, Statue, Woolwich