List of statues of English and British royalty in London
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This is a list of statues of British royalty in London.
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Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Offa of Mercia |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Egbert of Wessex | |||||
Æthelwulf of Wessex | |||||
Æthelbald of Wessex | |||||
Æthelbert of Wessex | |||||
Æthelred of Wessex | |||||
Alfred the Great | (1) Trinity Church Square, Southwark (2) The Broadway, Winchester |
(1) c. 1395; (2) 1899 | (2) Hamo Thornycroft | [1][2] | |
Edward the Elder | |||||
Athelstan of England | |||||
Edmund I of England | |||||
Eadred of England | |||||
Eadwig of England | |||||
Edgar of England | |||||
Edward the Martyr | |||||
Æthelred the Unready | |||||
Edmund Ironside |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Sweyn I of Denmark | |||||
Canute the Great | |||||
Harold Harefoot | |||||
Harthacanute |
House of Wessex – Restored
editImage | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward the Confessor | |||||
Harold Godwinson | Waltham Abbey | [3] | |||
Edgar the Ætheling |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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William I | |||||
William II | |||||
Henry I | |||||
Stephen | |||||
Matilda | Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower | 1866–7 | Farmer & Brindley | [4] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Henry II | |||||
Richard I | Outside the Palace of Westminster | 1851 | Carlo Marochetti | [5] | |
John | Egham High Street | 1997 | David Parfitt | [6] | |
Henry III | Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane | 1891–6 | Farmer & Brindley | [7] | |
Edward I | 114–115 High Holborn | 1903 | |||
Edward II | |||||
Edward III | Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane | 1891–6 | Farmer & Brindley | [7] | |
Richard II |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Henry IV | |||||
Henry V | |||||
Henry VI | Eton College Chapel | John Bacon | [8][9] | ||
School Yard, Eton | 1719 | Francis Bird | [10] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward IV | |||||
Edward V | |||||
Richard III |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Henry VII | Tomb in Westminster Abbey | 1518 | Pietro Torrigiano | [11] | |||
Henry VIII | Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital | 1702–3 | Francis Bird | [12] | |||
More images |
Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1682 | Thomas Cartwright | Grade II* | [13] | |
More images |
Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1736 | Peter Scheemakers | Grade II* | [14] | |
Elizabeth I | St Dunstan-in-the-West | 1670–99 | ? | [15] | |||
Elizabeth I | Royal Exchange | 1844 | Musgrave Watson | [16] | |||
Elizabeth I | Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower | 1866–7 | Farmer & Brindley | [4] | |||
Elizabeth I | Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room | 19th century; installed on current site in 1925 | Richard Westmacott |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Notes | Source |
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James I | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | |||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1861–4 | Thomas Thornycroft | Intended for the Palace of Westminster. | [17] | ||
Anne of Denmark | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | |||
Charles I | Charing Cross |
1633 | Hubert Le Sueur | The earliest English equestrian statue. Originally commissioned in 1630 by Charles I's Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston, for his house Mortlake Park in Roehampton. Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when the pedestal was carved by Joshua Marshall. | [18] | |
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | ||||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1671 | John Bushnell | Intended for the Royal Exchange. | [19] | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1861–4 | Thomas Thornycroft | Intended for the Palace of Westminster. | [20] | ||
Charles II | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | |||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1671 | John Bushnell | [21] | |||
Soho Square | 1681 | Caius Gabriel Cibber | ||||
Royal Exchange | 1789–91 | John Spiller | [22] | |||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1865–71 | Henry Weekes | [23] | |||
James II | Trafalgar Square | 1686 | Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons | [24] | ||
William III | St. James's Square | 1807 | John Bacon the Younger | [25] | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–7 | Thomas Woolner | [26] | |||
Outside Kensington Palace | 1908 | Heinrich Baucke | [27] | |||
Mary II | Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–8 | Alexander Munro | [28] | ||
Anne | Market House, Kingston upon Thames | 1706 | Francis Bird | |||
Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster | 1708 at latest | Francis Bird | ||||
Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower | 1866–7 | Farmer & Brindley | [4] | |||
Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral | 1886 | Richard Claude Belt | [29] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Royal Exchange | 1845–7 | John Graham Lough | [48] | |
Holborn Circus | 1869–74 | Charles Bacon | [49] | ||
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | c. 1905–6 | Alfred Drury | [45] | ||
Edward VII | Temple Bar | 1879–80 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | [39] | |
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [45] | ||
Outside Tooting Broadway tube station | 1911 | Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn | [50] | ||
Waterloo Place | 1921 (unveiled) | Bertram Mackennal | [51] | ||
Alexandra of Denmark | Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [45] | |
Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel | 1908 | George Edward Wade | [52] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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George V | Old Palace Yard | 1947 (unveiled) | Sir William Reid Dick | [53] | |
George VI | The Mall | 1954 | William McMillan | [54] | |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | The Mall | 2009 (unveiled) | Philip Jackson | [55] | |
Elizabeth II | Bexleyheath Clock Tower | 2013 (unveiled) | Frances Segelman | [56] | |
Diana Spencer | Kensington Palace | 2021 (unveiled) | Ian Rank-Broadley | [57] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "A Walk through Southwark". Archived from the original on 21 January 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2009.
- ^ Statue of King Alfred the Great, britainexpress.com, accessed 28 March 2021
- ^ "Waltham Abbey Church". walthamabbeychurch.co.uk.
- ^ a b c d Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 303
- ^ http://news.parliament.uk/2009/08/conservation-of-richard-the-lionhearts-statue/ [bare URL]
- ^ http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2 [dead link]
- ^ a b Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 305
- ^ "The Parish of Greenford Magna - Edward Betham School". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 853.
- ^ "Eton - Towns & Villages in Windsor and Maidenhead".
- ^ "SHAFE - Art and Architecture at the Tudor Court". Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 349
- ^ Historic England. "Stone statue of Edward VI at north entrance to ward block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital (1319933)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Bronze statue of Edward VI at north entrance to ward block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital (1080372)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 129
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 325
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 71
- ^ Statue of Charles I – Westminster – Greater London – England | British Listed Buildings Accessed 8 October 2011
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 68
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 72
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 69
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 324
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 76
- ^ a b "George II". societe-jersiaise.org.
- ^ "Jermyn Street Association - History". Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 74
- ^ "William III, statue outside of Kensington Palace - Your Archives".
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 75
- ^ "UK – London – The City: Queen Anne's Statue at St. Paul's Cathedral". Flickr. 10 November 2006.
- ^ "St George's Bloomsbury". Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Matthews 2012, pp. 198–9
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 253
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 32
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 183
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 385
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 293
- ^ Matthews 2012, pp. 199–200
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 180
- ^ a b Ward-Jackson 2003, pp. 115–9
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 327
- ^ Matthews 2012, pp. 133–4
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 275
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 20
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 225
- ^ a b c d Physik, John (1978). "Decorative sculpture on the exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 125
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 413
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 326
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 198
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 221
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 405
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 230
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 160
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 141
- ^ Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 146
- ^ "PICTURED: Commemorative bust of the Queen is unveiled at Bexleyheath Clock Tower". www.newsshopper.co.uk/.
- ^ Shearing, Hazel (1 July 2021). "William and Harry unite to unveil Diana statue at Kensington Palace". BBC. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
Bibliography
edit- Matthews, Peter (2012), London's Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003), Public Sculpture of the City of London, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press