List of statues of British royalty in London
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House of Mercia
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Offa of Mercia |
House of Wessex
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Egbert of Wessex | |||||
Æthelwulf of Wessex | |||||
Æthelbald of Wessex | |||||
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Æthelbert of Wessex | ||||
Æthelred of Wessex | |||||
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Alfred the Great | Trinity Church Square, Southwark | 1395 (approx) | [1] | |
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 |
House of Denmark
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
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward the Confessor | |||||
Harold Godwinson | Waltham Abbey | [2] | |||
Edgar the Ætheling |
House of Normandy
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 | [3] |
House of Plantagenet
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Henry II | |||||
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Richard I | Outside the Palace of Westminster | 1851 | Carlo Marochetti | [4] |
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John | Egham High Street | 1997 | David Parfitt | [5] |
Henry III | Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane | 1891–6 | Farmer & Brindley | [6] | |
Edward I | |||||
Edward II | |||||
Edward III | Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane | 1891–6 | Farmer & Brindley | [6] | |
Richard II |
House of Lancaster
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Henry IV | |||||
Henry V | |||||
Henry VI | Eton College Chapel | John Bacon | [7][8] | ||
School Yard, Eton | 1719 | Francis Bird | [9] |
House of York
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward IV | |||||
Edward V | |||||
Richard III |
House of Tudor
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Henry VII | Tomb in Westminster Abbey | 1518 | Torrigiano, PietroPietro Torrigiano | [10] | |||
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Henry VIII | Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital | 1702–3 | Bird, FrancisFrancis Bird | [11] | ||
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Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1682 | Cartwright, ThomasThomas Cartwright | Grade II* | [12] | |
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Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1736 | Scheemakers, PeterPeter Scheemakers | Grade II* | [13] | |
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Elizabeth I | St Dunstan-in-the-West | 1670–99 | ? | [14] | ||
Elizabeth I | Royal Exchange | 1844 | Watson, MusgraveMusgrave Watson | [15] | |||
Elizabeth I | Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower | 1866–7 | Farmer & Brindley | [3] | |||
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Elizabeth I | Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room | 19th century; installed on current site in 1925 | Westmacott, RichardRichard Westmacott |
House of Stuart
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. | [16] | ||
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Anne of Denmark | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | ||
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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. | [17] |
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Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | |||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1671 | John Bushnell | Intended for the Royal Exchange. | [18] | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1861–4 | Thomas Thornycroft | Intended for the Palace of Westminster. | [19] | ||
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Charles II | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1671 | John Bushnell | [20] | |||
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Soho Square | 1681 | Caius Gabriel Cibber | |||
Royal Exchange | 1789–91 | John Spiller | [21] | |||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1865–71 | Henry Weekes | [22] | |||
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James II | Trafalgar Square | 1686 | Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons | [23] | |
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William III | St. James's Square | 1807 | John Bacon the Younger | [24] | |
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–7 | Thomas Woolner | [25] | |||
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Outside Kensington Palace | 1908 | Heinrich Baucke | [26] | ||
Mary II | Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–8 | Alexander Munro | [27] | ||
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Anne | Market House, Kingston upon Thames | 1706 | Francis Bird | ||
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Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster | 1708 at latest | Francis Bird | |||
Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower | 1866–7 | Farmer & Brindley | [3] | |||
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Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral | 1886 | Richard Claude Belt | [28] |
House of Hanover
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Albert, Prince Consort | Royal Exchange | 1845–7 | John Graham Lough | [47] | |
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Holborn Circus | 1869–74 | Charles Bacon | [48] | |
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Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | c. 1905–6 | Alfred Drury | [44] | |
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | Temple Bar | 1879–80 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | [38] | |
Edward VII | Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [44] | |
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Outside Tooting Broadway tube station | 1911 | Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn | [49] | |
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Waterloo Place | 1921 (unveiled) | Bertram Mackennal | [50] | |
Alexandra of Denmark | Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [44] | |
Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel | 1908 | George Edward Wade | [51] |
House of Windsor
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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George V | Old Palace Yard | 1947 (unveiled) | Sir William Reid Dick | [52] |
Edward VIII | |||||
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George VI | The Mall | 1954 | William McMillan | [53] |
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | The Mall | 2009 (unveiled) | Philip Jackson | [54] |
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.londongardenstrust.org/guides/southwark.htm
- ↑ "Waltham Abbey Church". walthamabbeychurch.co.uk.
- 1 2 3 4 Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 303
- ↑ http://news.parliament.uk/2009/08/conservation-of-richard-the-lionhearts-statue/
- ↑ http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2
- 1 2 Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 305
- ↑ http://www.greenfordmagna.info/bethamschool.asp
- ↑ http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Eton
- ↑ http://www.windsor.gov.uk/site/discover-the-area/eton-p281731
- ↑ http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/Tudor_02_-_Early_Tudor_Sculpture.asp
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 "George II". societe-jersiaise.org.
- ↑ http://www.jermynstreet.net/about/history/st_james_square.php
- ↑ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 74
- ↑ http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=William_III%2C_statue_outside_of_Kensington_Palace
- ↑ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 75
- ↑ "UK - London - The City: Queen Anne's Statue at St. Paul's Cathedral". Flickr.
- ↑ http://www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/about/tour.html
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 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
- 1 2 3 4 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
Bibliography
- 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.
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