Bus Stop Ornée

My travels took me to Guildford today. On Farnham Road I found what may be, unless you know better, Britain's most elaborate bus stop.

And it's not just the balustrade, but these amazing carved figures inside. Turkish chap with a pipe and a figure with a lyre - not sure what that's about, nor why it should be here. On the 1873 Ordnance Survey there is nothing along Farnham Road apart from the Hospital, which lies a couple of hundred yards downhill from this. A mystery.