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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

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

House of Wessex

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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	(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

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

House of Wessex – Restored

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Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Source
Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwinson	Waltham Abbey	^[3]
Edgar the Ætheling

House of Normandy

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Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
William I
William II
Henry I
Stephen
Matilda	Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower	1866–7	Farmer & Brindley	^[4]

House of Plantagenet

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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	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

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Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI	Eton College Chapel		John Bacon	^[8]^[9]
Henry VI	School Yard, Eton	1719	Francis Bird	^[10]

House of York

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

House of Tudor

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Designation	Notes
	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]
More images	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

House of Stuart

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Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Notes	Source
James I	Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square	c. 1670–2	John Bushnell
James I	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 51.50732°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

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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]
George II	Royal Naval College, Greenwich	1735 (unveiled)	John Michael Rysbrack	^[31]
George III	The quadrangle at Somerset House	1780	John Bacon	^[32]
George III	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

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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]
Alexandra of Denmark	Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel	1908	George Edward Wade	^[52]

House of Windsor

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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]
Elizabeth II	Bexleyheath Clock Tower	2013 (unveiled)	Frances Segelman	^[56]
Diana Spencer	Kensington Palace	2021 (unveiled)	Ian Rank-Broadley	^[57]

References

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[2]
Statue of King Alfred the Great, britainexpress.com, accessed 28 March 2021
[3]
"Waltham Abbey Church". walthamabbeychurch.co.uk.
[4]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 303
[5]
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[6]
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[7]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 305
[8]
"The Parish of Greenford Magna - Edward Betham School". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
[9]
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eton" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 853.
[10]
"Eton - Towns & Villages in Windsor and Maidenhead".
[11]
"SHAFE - Art and Architecture at the Tudor Court". Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
[12]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 349
[13]
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.
[14]
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.
[15]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 129
[16]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 325
[17]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 71
[18]
Statue of Charles I – Westminster – Greater London – England | British Listed Buildings Accessed 8 October 2011
[19]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 68
[20]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 72
[21]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 69
[22]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 324
[23]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 76
[24]
"George II". societe-jersiaise.org.
[25]
"Jermyn Street Association - History". Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
[26]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 74
[27]
"William III, statue outside of Kensington Palace - Your Archives".
[28]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 75
[29]
"UK – London – The City: Queen Anne's Statue at St. Paul's Cathedral". Flickr. 10 November 2006.
[30]
"St George's Bloomsbury". Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
[31]
Matthews 2012, pp. 198–9
[32]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 253
[33]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 32
[34]
Matthews 2012, p. 183
[35]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 385
[36]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 293
[37]
Matthews 2012, pp. 199–200
[38]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 180
[39]
Ward-Jackson 2003, pp. 115–9
[40]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 327
[41]
Matthews 2012, pp. 133–4
[42]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 275
[43]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 20
[44]
Matthews 2012, p. 225
[45]
Physik, John (1978). "Decorative sculpture on the exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
[46]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 125
[47]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 413
[48]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 326
[49]
Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 198
[50]
Matthews 2012, p. 221
[51]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 405
[52]
Matthews 2012, p. 230
[53]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 160
[54]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 141
[55]
Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 146
[56]
"PICTURED: Commemorative bust of the Queen is unveiled at Bexleyheath Clock Tower". www.newsshopper.co.uk/.
[57]
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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