Metropolitan Life Assurance Company - Moorgate, London, UK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

If you are looking where you are going, or looking for the streets of London being paved with gold, you will miss this statue. It stands atop a steeple-like structure on the Europe Arab Bank building in Moorgate.

The golden statue, that appears to be about life-size, from street level, is looking south east towards the Bank of England. The origin of the statue lies in the buildings original use as offices for the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company. This was their coat-of-arms.

The Book of Public Arms [visit link] tells us:

"METROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (London). (Established
1835.) Or, on a mount vert, a female figure proper, vested argent, mantle azure,
the right arm extended and entwined by a serpent, holding in the left hand a
human ..."

[Granted, College of Arms, August 18, 1885.]"

In English this is a robed female figure with her right arm extended with a snake (serpent) around the forearm and her left arm bent with a skull in the right hand.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Metropolitan Life Assurance Company coat-of-arms Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Unknown Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1885 Materials used: Unknown Location: On top of Europe Arab Bank - visible from street level.

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