This 42 storey tower is one of three similar residential blocks which, when first built, were the tallest residential buildings in London. The whole Grade II Listed Barbican complex is architecturally important as it is one of London's principal examples of concrete brutalist architecture and is considered a landmark.
These sculptures, above the portico of the Bank of England, were the work of Sir Charles Wheeler - part of a set depicting 'Creators and Guardians of Wealth' - for Sir Herbert Baker's reconstruction of the Bank edifice between the World Wars.