Mick Hartley

This week incorporating Weather Vane Watch:

At Two Temple Place. 

That, perched above William Waldorf Astor's gothic revival building on Victoria Embankment, is a gilded weather vane in beaten copper representing Columbus's caravel the Santa Maria.

The house is now open, with free entry, and is dedicated to showcasing publicly-owned art from UK regional collections. Currently they're coming up to the last week of a William Morris exhibition. Personally I can't get too excited about William Morris, but the house itself is extraordinary. The Wiki entry has plenty of photos inside and out.

Here's one of the outside lamp standards by William Silver Frith:

plus ghostly face in the window.