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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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 | |||||
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 |
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 | [3] | |||
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 | [4] |
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 | [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 |
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 | [8][9] | ||
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School Yard, Eton | 1719 | Francis Bird | [10] |
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 | Pietro Torrigiano | [11] | |||
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Henry VIII | Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital | 1702–3 | Francis Bird | [12] | ||
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Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1682 | Thomas Cartwright | Grade II* | [13] | |
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Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1736 | Peter Scheemakers | Grade II* | [14] | |
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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] | |||
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Elizabeth I | Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room | 19th century; installed on current site in 1925 | Richard Westmacott |
House of Stuart
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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] | ||
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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. | [18] |
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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. | [19] | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1861–4 | Thomas Thornycroft | Intended for the Palace of Westminster. | [20] | ||
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Charles II | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | ||
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1671 | John Bushnell | [21] | |||
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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] | ||
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William III | St. James's Square | 1807 | John Bacon the Younger | [25] | |
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–7 | Thomas Woolner | [26] | |||
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Outside Kensington Palace | 1908 | Heinrich Baucke | [27] | ||
Mary II | Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey | 1862–8 | Alexander Munro | [28] | ||
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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 | [4] | |||
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Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral | 1886 | Richard Claude Belt | [29] |
House of Hanover
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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] | ||
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Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | c. 1905–6 | Alfred Drury | [45] | |
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Edward VII | Temple Bar | 1879–80 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | [39] |
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [45] | ||
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Outside Tooting Broadway tube station | 1911 | Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn | [50] | |
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Waterloo Place | 1921 (unveiled) | Bertram Mackennal | [51] | |
Alexandra of Denmark | Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade | 1906 | Sir William Goscombe John | [45] | |
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Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel | 1908 | George Edward Wade | [52] |
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 | [53] |
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George VI | The Mall | 1954 | William McMillan | [54] |
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | The Mall | 2009 (unveiled) | Philip Jackson | [55] |
Elizabeth II | Bexleyheath Clock Tower | 2013 (unveiled) | Frances Segelman | [56] | |
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Diana Spencer | Kensington Palace | 2021 (unveiled) | Ian Rank-Broadley | [57] |
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