| AltRefNo | Gardner Box 42 No 14 |
| Title | Proposed National Monument To Newton |
| Description | In 1696 on his appointment as Warden to the Royal Mint, Isaac Newton moved into a house near the Mint at the Tower of London. A few months later he moved to Jermyn Street in Westminster, where he lived for the next eleven years. In 1709, after a brief stay in Chelsea, he returned to Westminster, establishing a household in St Martin's Street, off Leicester Square, which remained his principal home until his death in March 1727.
In 1834 a Mr T. Steele asked the artist George Scharf to prepare a drawing of a projected monument to Newton. Steele's singular design comprised a stepped pyramid, surmounted by a globe, enclosing Newton's former home in St Martin's Street. Scharf's drawing also illustrates how an ancient Franciscan chapel had similarly been preserved by means of enclosure. Unsurprisingly, Steele's proposal was never realised. The house was demolished in 1913 and the Westminster Reference Library now occupies the site |
| Date | 1834 |
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| Access Status | Open |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA233 | Scharf; George (1788-1860); Sir; art critic, illustrator | 1788-1860 |
| NA685 | Newton; Issac (1642-1727); Sir; physicist, mathematician, astronomer | 1642-1727 |
| DS/UK/1431 | Steele; T | |
Places
| Code | Set |
| PL1248 | St Martin's St/St Martin-in-the-Fields |