The Pilgrim’s Progress remembered in Holborn

A hotel in Holborn also contains a most unexpected statue — of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress.Unsurprisingly, the hotel is a new occupant of an older building — the headquarters of the Baptist Society. Baptist Christ House was the first building to be constructed on the newly widened Southampton Row, between 1901 and 1903.
It was designed by Arthur Keen, a pupil of Norman Shaw, for the Baptist Union in what was known as Edwardian Free Baroque style, but Keen prod