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House of Mercia [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Offa of Mercia

House of Wessex [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Egbert of Wessex
Æthelwulf of Wessex
Æthelbald of Wessex
Æthelbert statue.JPG Æthelbert of Wessex
Æthelred of Wessex
Alfred The Great statue.JPG 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 [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Sweyn I of Denmark
Canute the Great
Harold Harefoot
Harthacanute

House of Wessex - Restored [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwinson Waltham Abbey [2]
Edgar the Ætheling

House of Normandy [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
William I
William II
Henry I
Stephen
Matilda

House of Plantagenet [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Henry II
Richard I of England - Palace of Westminster - 24042004.jpg Richard I Outside the Palace of Westminster 1851 Carlo Marochetti [3]
Kingjohn-Egham-DavidParfitt.JPG John Egham High Street 1997 David Parfitt [4]
Henry III Kings College London, above the entrance to the Maughan Library. [5]
Edward I
Edward II
Edward III
Richard II

House of Lancaster [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI Eton College Chapel John Bacon [6][7]
School Yard, Eton 1719 Francis Bird [8]

House of York [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III

House of Tudor [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Henry VII Tomb in Westminster Abbey 1518 Pietro Torrigiano [9]
Henry VIII statue.JPG Henry VIII Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital
Edward VI statue.JPG Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital 1682 Thomas Cartwright [10][11]
Lady Jane Grey
Mary I
Elizabeth I statue.JPG Elizabeth I St Dunstan-in-the-West 1586 [12][13]

House of Stuart [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Notes Source
James I
Charles I, Trafalgar Square.jpg 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. [14]

Commonwealth [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Oliver Cromwell - Statue - Palace of Westminster - London - 240404.jpg Oliver Cromwell Outside Westminster Hall 1899 Hamo Thornycroft [15]
Richard Cromwell

House of Stuart - Restored [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Statue of King Charles II in Soho Square.jpg Charles II Soho Square 1681 Caius Gabriel Cibber
James II statue 1.jpg James II Trafalgar Square 1686 Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons [16][17]
William III statue, St James's Square.jpg William III St. James's Square 1807 John Bacon the Younger [18]
Willem III, Kensington Palace.jpeg Outside Kensington Palace 1908 Heinrich Baucke [19]
Mary II
Kingston Market Square.jpg Anne Market House, Kingston upon Thames 1706 Francis Bird
Queen Anne, Queen Anne's Square.jpg Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster 1708 at latest Francis Bird
Anne of Great Britain St Paul's.jpg Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral 1886 Richard Claude Belt [20]

House of Hanover [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
George I statue.JPG George I At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury 1730 Nicholas Hawksmoor [21]
George II statue 1.jpg George II Golden Square 1720 John Nost the Elder [16]
Royal-naval-college-gw.jpg Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1735 John Michael Rysbrack [16]
George III and Father Thames.jpg George III The quadrangle at Somerset House 1780 John Bacon [22]
George III statue, Pall Mall.jpg Pall Mall c. 1836 Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Queen Charlotte, Queen Square.jpg Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen Square, Bloomsbury 1775
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany column.jpg Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Duke of York Column, Waterloo Place 1832–4 Sir Richard Westmacott
Statue of King George IV in Trafalgar Square.jpg George IV Trafalgar Square 1830 Sir Francis Chantrey [23]
William IV statue.JPG William IV Greenwich, by the National Maritime Museum 1845 Samuel Nixon [24]
Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.jpg Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn Park Crescent, Marylebone c. 1820–7 Sebastian Gahagan
London - Victoria Monument.JPG Victoria The Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace 1911 Thomas Brock [25]
Castle Hill, Windsor 1887 Joseph Edgar Boehm [26]

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Statue of Edward VII outside Tooting Broadway Underground Station - geograph.org.uk - 1019794.jpg Edward VII Outside Tooting Broadway tube station 1911 Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn [27]
Edward VII equestrian London 3.jpg Waterloo Place 1924 Bertram Mackennal [28]
Alexandra of Denmark Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel 1908 George Edward Wade [29]

House of Windsor [edit]

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Westminster king george v statue 1.jpg George V Old Palace Yard 1947 Sir William Reid Dick [30]
Edward VIII
George VI - Statue - Carlton House Terrace - London - 310504.jpg George VI Carlton House Terrace 1955 William McMillan
Elizabeth II Windsor Great Park 2003 Philip Jackson [31]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.londongardenstrust.org/guides/southwark.htm
  2. ^ http://www.walthamabbeychurch.co.uk/history.htm
  3. ^ http://news.parliament.uk/2009/08/conservation-of-richard-the-lionhearts-statue/
  4. ^ http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2
  5. ^ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2007&news_id=575
  6. ^ http://www.greenfordmagna.info/bethamschool.asp
  7. ^ http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Eton
  8. ^ http://www.windsor.gov.uk/site/discover-the-area/eton-p281731
  9. ^ http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/Tudor_02_-_Early_Tudor_Sculpture.asp
  10. ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47118
  11. ^ http://www.southbanklondon.com/walkthisway/SculptureStroll.html
  12. ^ http://www.hiddenlondon.com/QueenLizStat.htm
  13. ^ http://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/homepage.htm
  14. ^ Statue of Charles I - Westminster - Greater London - England | British Listed Buildings Accessed 8 October 2011
  15. ^ http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/thornycroft/hamoov.html
  16. ^ a b c http://members.societe-jersiaise.org/geraint/statues/giiauts.html
  17. ^ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/James_II_of_England
  18. ^ http://www.jermynstreet.net/about/history/st_james_square.php
  19. ^ http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=William_III%2C_statue_outside_of_Kensington_Palace
  20. ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/305239043/
  21. ^ http://www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/about/tour.html
  22. ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/costi-londra/333930120/
  23. ^ http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/The%20House%20of%20Windsor%20from%201952/QueenElizabethTheQueenMother/MemorialProject/TheProject/FamousRoyalmemorials.aspx
  24. ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/sculpt/snixon.htm
  25. ^ http://www.4london.info/londonqueenvictoriamemorial.htm
  26. ^ http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/royalty/queenvicstatue.html
  27. ^ Matthews 2012, p. 221
  28. ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/london/waterloo.htm
  29. ^ Matthews 2012, p. 230
  30. ^ http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/09/0960/0960_.htm
  31. ^ http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6333_Queen_Elizabeth_The_2nd_Golden_Jubilee_Statue

Bibliography [edit]

  • Matthews, Peter (2012). London's Statues and Monuments. Botley: Shire Publications. 

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