Memorial to Margaret Mcmillan at Rachel Mcmillan Nursery School
MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL, MCMILLAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214190
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Margaret Mcmillan at Rachel Mcmillan Nursery School
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL, MCMILLAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214190
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1995
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Margaret Mcmillan at Rachel Mcmillan Nursery School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL, MCMILLAN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL, MCMILLAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37382 77675
Details
786/26/10035 MCMILLAN STREET 13-FEB-95 (East side) MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL
GV II
Memorial to Margaret McMillan (1860-1931), erected May-November 1932 to the designs of Herbert Baker. Sculptor unknown. Stone on brick plinth, a circular column inscribed 'IN MEMORIAM MARGARET McMILLAN, PALM SUNDAY 1931, MISERIS SUCCURRERE DISCO' ('I learn to succour the poor', the McMillan clan motto) with a roll moulding at the top and decorated base carved with figures, animals and plants in bas relief. Iron lantern on top. McMillan was a pioneer in nursery education, whose ideas on health, fresh air and imaginative play were first embodied in a building on this site in 1914.
Sources Minutes of the Rachel McMillan School Management Committee, 1932 Herbert Baker, Architecture and Personalities, 1944 District Surveyors Returns held at London Metropolitan Archives.
Listing NGR: TQ3738277675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baker, H, Architecture and Personalities, (1944)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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