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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 of Wessex | |||||
| Æthelred of Wessex | |||||
| 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 | Outside the Palace of Westminster | 1851 | Carlo Marochetti | [3] | |
| 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 | Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital | ||||
| Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1682 | Thomas Cartwright | [10][11] | |
| Lady Jane Grey | |||||
| Mary I | |||||
| 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 | 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. | [14] |
Commonwealth [edit]
| Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Cromwell | Outside Westminster Hall | 1899 | Hamo Thornycroft | [15] | |
| Richard Cromwell |
House of Stuart - Restored [edit]
| Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles II | Soho Square | 1681 | Caius Gabriel Cibber | ||
| James II | Trafalgar Square | 1686 | Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons | [16][17] | |
| William III | St. James's Square | 1807 | John Bacon the Younger | [18] | |
| Outside Kensington Palace | 1908 | Heinrich Baucke | [19] | ||
| Mary II | |||||
| Anne | Market House, Kingston upon Thames | 1706 | Francis Bird | ||
| Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster | 1708 at latest | Francis Bird | |||
| 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 | At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury | 1730 | Nicholas Hawksmoor | [21] | |
| George II | Golden Square | 1720 | John Nost the Elder | [16] | |
| Royal Naval College, Greenwich | 1735 | John Michael Rysbrack | [16] | ||
| George III | The quadrangle at Somerset House | 1780 | John Bacon | [22] | |
| Pall Mall | c. 1836 | Matthew Cotes Wyatt | |||
| Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Queen Square, Bloomsbury | 1775 | |||
| Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Duke of York Column, Waterloo Place | 1832–4 | Sir Richard Westmacott | ||
| George IV | Trafalgar Square | 1830 | Sir Francis Chantrey | [23] | |
| William IV | Greenwich, by the National Maritime Museum | 1845 | Samuel Nixon | [24] | |
| Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | Park Crescent, Marylebone | c. 1820–7 | Sebastian Gahagan | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward VII | Outside Tooting Broadway tube station | 1911 | Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn | [27] | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George V | Old Palace Yard | 1947 | Sir William Reid Dick | [30] | |
| Edward VIII | |||||
| George VI | Carlton House Terrace | 1955 | William McMillan | ||
| Elizabeth II | Windsor Great Park | 2003 | Philip Jackson | [31] |
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.londongardenstrust.org/guides/southwark.htm
- ^ http://www.walthamabbeychurch.co.uk/history.htm
- ^ http://news.parliament.uk/2009/08/conservation-of-richard-the-lionhearts-statue/
- ^ http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2
- ^ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/news_details.php?year=2007&news_id=575
- ^ 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
- ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47118
- ^ http://www.southbanklondon.com/walkthisway/SculptureStroll.html
- ^ http://www.hiddenlondon.com/QueenLizStat.htm
- ^ http://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/homepage.htm
- ^ Statue of Charles I - Westminster - Greater London - England | British Listed Buildings Accessed 8 October 2011
- ^ http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/thornycroft/hamoov.html
- ^ a b c http://members.societe-jersiaise.org/geraint/statues/giiauts.html
- ^ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/James_II_of_England
- ^ http://www.jermynstreet.net/about/history/st_james_square.php
- ^ http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=William_III%2C_statue_outside_of_Kensington_Palace
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/305239043/
- ^ http://www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/about/tour.html
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/costi-londra/333930120/
- ^ http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/The%20House%20of%20Windsor%20from%201952/QueenElizabethTheQueenMother/MemorialProject/TheProject/FamousRoyalmemorials.aspx
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/sculpt/snixon.htm
- ^ http://www.4london.info/londonqueenvictoriamemorial.htm
- ^ http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/royalty/queenvicstatue.html
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 221
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/london/waterloo.htm
- ^ Matthews 2012, p. 230
- ^ http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/09/0960/0960_.htm
- ^ 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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