This is a list of statues of British royalty in London.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Offa of Mercia |
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 |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Sweyn I of Denmark | |||||
Canute the Great | |||||
Harold Harefoot | |||||
Harthacanute |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward the Confessor | |||||
Harold Godwinson | Waltham Abbey | [3] | |||
Edgar the Ætheling |
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] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Henry II | |||||
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 |
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] | ||
School Yard, Eton | 1719 | Francis Bird | [10] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Edward IV | |||||
Edward V | |||||
Richard III |
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] | |||
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] | |
More images |
Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital | 1736 | Peter Scheemakers | Grade II* | [14] | |
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] | |||
Elizabeth I | Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room | 19th century; installed on current site in 1925 | Richard Westmacott |
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] | ||
Anne of Denmark | Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square | c. 1670–2 | John Bushnell | |||
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] | |
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] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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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] |
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] | ||
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] |
Image | Monarch / ruler commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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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] |
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Key: No longer extant, on public display or in London (see List of public art formerly in London) |