Saturday 28 March 2015

Euterpe / St George's Gardens

Euterpe the Muse of Instrumental Music. Terracotta figure, one of the nine Muses which decorated the façade of the Apollo Inn (1898) on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place. On its demolition in 1961, Anthony Heal presented this statue to St Pancras (Parish) [source: park notice]. London Borough of Camden. 

(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - credit: Images George Rex.)