Victorian Thames stones transformed into permanent benches outside St Paul’s

Victorian Thames stones transformed into permanent benches outside St Paul’s

A row of stone benches that appeared outside St Paul’s Cathedral a couple of years ago as a temporary idea has been refurbished into permanent benches. The ‘From the Thames to Eternity’ project repurposes 21 granite stones originally used in the construction of the Victorian river wall at Victoria Embankment. Installed in 1870 as part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s embankment works following the ‘Great Stink’ of 1858, they formed part of the infrast…