Fronting the northwest quadrant of the oval, with fronts on roads entering the Circus from the west stands Edwin Lutyens's massive Britannic House (1921–25, listed Grade II), designed for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP; its free-standing architectural sculptures are by Francis Derwent Wood.Philip Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of the City of London 2003:109f. It was built on the site of the last remaining original houses, and is now home to international law firm Stephenson Harwood.Harold Philip Clunn, London Rebuilt, 1897-1927: an attempt to depict the principal, 1927:17ff.
