diff --git a/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icon.md b/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icon.md
index 58c7ea911..7aaffcff0 100644
--- a/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icon.md
+++ b/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icon.md
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The filled option should only be used with **product** icons.
 
 ### Register icons service
 
-Custom icons can be registered via the `NxIconRegistry` injectable service. With the `NxIconRegistry` you can associate icon names with SVG, URL and HTML strings and define a CSS font class.
+Custom icons can be registered via the `NxIconRegistry` injectable service. With the `NxIconRegistry` you can associate icon names with SVG, URL and HTML strings and define a CSS font class. When you are registering an icon by URL please make sure to import the `HttpClientModule` from `@angular/common/http`.
 
 <!-- example(icon-registry) -->
 
diff --git a/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icons.ts b/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icons.ts
index c6f31d1c3..d380cdfb4 100644
--- a/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icons.ts
+++ b/projects/ng-aquila/src/icon/icons.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ export class NxSvgIconFromUrl extends NxSvgIcon {
       throw Error(`The URL provided to NxIconRegistry was not trusted as a resource URL ` +
         `via Angular's DomSanitizer. Attempted URL was "${safeUrl}".`);
     }
+    if (!this._httpClient) {
+      throw Error('Could not find HttpClient provider for using a SVG url in the nx-icon registry. ' +
+      'Please include the HttpClientModule from @angular/common/http in your app imports.');
+    }
   }
 
   /** Returns the content. If the SVG is not already loaded it fetches the SVG from icons' URL */