Whilst I really can't recommend my current hotel (the Thistle Bloomsbury) as a Hotel (grateful though I am to have my accommodation arranged and paid for by an entity that isn't me ...) - let me recommend it for the historical resonance of its stained glass. For this (89 Southampton Row) was the business headquarters of A. L. Moore, Glass Painters and Decorators (founded as Gibbs and Moore in 1871). Given some of the very elaborate late Victorian stained glass windows that they produced, especially for churches in Sussex, these stair windows are a triumph of modesty.
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