Five Kings House

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Five Kings House, formerly Thames House, is an office building in the City of London at the corner of Upper Thames Street and Queen Street Place, EC4R 1QS. It is a Grade II listed building (List Entry No. 1358918) built in 1911 by Thomas Collcutt and Stanley Hamp for Liebig's Extract of Meat Company. The façade features sculptures by Richard Garbe, including Abundance over the central entrance by Frank Lynn Jenkins. Over the corner doorway is a canopy with reclining figures, a skull on a pediment, and a tablet with cherubs. The figures over the grand entrance on the corner with Upper Thames Street depict Mercury and a female figure by George Duncan MacDougald, above which is a Pegasus relief with two male figures and capitals adorned with an owl and an eagle. The central Queen Street doorway has crouched figures in a canopy and cherubs above. The south doorway once had figures in lead. The upper pediment shows naked reclining figures with a child above. The winged keystone is decorated with fruit and eagles, and the doorway has an Atlas keystone with an owl motif above. In the spandrels are reliefs of two naked female figures. A bronze sailing ship sits in front of the oculus, mounted on a cartouche reading "THAMES HOUSE". Coordinates: 51.51068°N, 0.09333°W.