The Lions of London, Part 1
A marker to the dead can take many forms. A simple slab. A towering obelisk. A niche in a wall. Or as a ruddy great lion. Lions in cemeteries – not actual lions, although wouldn’t that be something – exist in funerary sculpture and are almost as impressive as seeing the real thing. There are loads of examples of stone lions being used to remember the long dead: so I’m highlighting four examples in a blog I’m splitting into two parts (for now) highlighting these magnificent cr