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equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross
This is a list of statues of British royalty in London .
House of Mercia [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Offa of Mercia
House of Denmark [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Sweyn I of Denmark
Canute the Great
Harold Harefoot
Harthacanute
House of Wessex – Restored [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwinson
Waltham Abbey
[3]
Edgar the Ætheling
House of Plantagenet [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Henry II
Richard I
Outside the Palace of Westminster
1851
Carlo Marochetti
[5]
John
Egham High Street
1997
[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
House of Lancaster [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Eton College Chapel
John Bacon
[8] [9]
School Yard, Eton
1719
Francis Bird
[10]
House of York [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III
House of Tudor [ ]
House of Stuart [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Notes
Source
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
51°30′26″N 0°07′40″W / 51.50732°N 0.12770°W / 51.50732; -0.12770 (Charles I )
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]
House of Hanover [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
George I
At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury
1730
Unknown
[30]
George II
Golden Square
1720
John Nost the Elder
[24]
Royal Naval College , Greenwich
1735 (unveiled)
John Michael Rysbrack
[31]
George III
The quadrangle at Somerset House
1780
John Bacon
[32]
Pall Mall
1836
Matthew Cotes Wyatt
[33]
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen Square, Bloomsbury
c. 1775
Unknown
[34]
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Duke of York Column , Waterloo Place
1832–4
Sir Richard Westmacott
[35]
George IV
Trafalgar Square
c. 1829–43
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
[36]
William IV
Greenwich , by the National Maritime Museum
1844 (unveiled)
Samuel Nixon
[37]
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Park Crescent , Marylebone
1824 (unveiled)
Sebastian Gahagan
[38]
Victoria
Maughan Library (King's College London ), central tower
1866–7
Farmer & Brindley
[4]
Temple Bar
1879–80
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
[39]
Royal Exchange
1891–6
Hamo Thornycroft
[40]
Kensington Gardens , outside Kensington Palace
1893
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (with Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm )
[41]
New Bridge Street (near Blackfriars Bridge )
1893–6
Charles Bell Birch
[42]
Carlton House Terrace
c. 1897–1902
Sir Thomas Brock
[43]
Croydon Town Hall
1903 (erected)
Francis John Williamson
[44]
Victoria and Albert Museum , entrance façade
c. 1905–6
Alfred Drury
[45]
Victoria Memorial , outside Buckingham Palace
1911 (unveiled)
Sir Thomas Brock
[46]
Victoria Square
2007
Catherine Laugel
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Whitehall
1907
Adrian Jones
[47]
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
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]
House of Windsor [ ]
Image
Monarch / ruler commemorated
Location
Date
Sculptor
Source
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]
Diana Spencer
Kensington Palace
2021 (unveiled)
Ian Rank-Broadley
[56]
See also [ ]
References [ ]
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2009-11-08 .{{cite web }}
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^ 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/
^ http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2
^ a b Ward-Jackson 2003 , p. 305
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2009-11-15 .{{cite web }}
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^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eton" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 853.
^ "Eton - Towns & Villages in Windsor and Maidenhead" .
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-11-15 .{{cite web }}
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^ 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 .
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2009-11-14 .{{cite web }}
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^ 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.
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2010-02-27 .{{cite web }}
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^ 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
^ 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 [ ]
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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