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#KingsCollegeHospital is one of London’s leading #TeachingHospitals & trauma centres. Propelled by #RobertBentleyTodd’s vision, it opened in the disused #StClementDanes #Workhouse near #KingsCollegeLondon in 1840, where #JosephLister pioneered antiseptic surgery & clinical / nurse training #FlorenceNightingale. It relocated to its present site in 1909 #MedicalResearch #KCLMedic
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The #Jacobite nickname for #JamesEdwardStuart aka #ThePretender was the #Blackbird, a reference to his deposed father King James II; named ‘Black Boy’ by his Mother because of the darkness of his skin & eyes. The image of a #GoldenFlyingBird disguises the #Jacobite Blackbird symbol as the holy spirit descending to earth; also present in a #ParodyPainting inside #StClementDanes.
In Source: The Golden Flying Bird
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In 1725, #Jacobite #FreeMason #WilliamKent made an altarpiece of St. Cecilia for #StClementDanes church, who rejected it because of its likeness to the wife of #ThePretender, Maria Clementina Sobieska. In a display of loyalty to #KingGeorgeI & to squash support to the competing claim to the throne by #JamesEdwardStuart, the altarpiece was removed.
In Source: The Golden Flying Bird
#StMaryLeStrand is the 2nd #Church in #StrandAldwych to be called by this name, the 1st situated only metres away. Mentioned in records dated 1222 ‘St Mary & the Innocents’ was destroyed in 1549 to make way for #SomersetHouse, forcing parishioners to #StClementDanes Church a short distance East. The united parish of #StMaryLeStrand with #StClementDanes still stands to this day.
In Source: The #JewelintheStrand
What do the crusades, Jacobites, #KnightsTemplar & #StMaryLeStrand architect #JamesGibbs have in common? Discover a #HiddenHistory of #Jacobite Symbolism & the cryptic coded meaning of: the #GoldenTriangle, a #WhiteRose in a #PlasterworkCeiling; #Carvings of Starbursts in the #Apse; the Prince behind the #GoldenFlyingBird & a #ParodyPainting for #StClementDanes church.
In Source: Jacobite Symbolism
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