The following is a list of equestrian statues in the United Kingdom and includes equestrian statues, where a rider is mounted on a horse; and equine statues, where the horse is riderless, and/or the rider the is dismounted. The list includes statues situated in the United Kingdom, in addition to the Channel Islands.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Statue of William III | Queen Square, Bristol | 1736 | John Michael Rysbrack | Statue on pedestal | Brass and stone | Grade I | Q5384424 | [1] | |
More images | John Wesley | New Room, Bristol | 1932 | Arthur George Walker | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and limestone | Grade II | Q26571319 | [2] | |
Cloaked Horseman | Narrow Lewins Mead, Bristol | 1984 | David Backhouse | Statue | Bronze resin | |||||
Horse and Man | Brunel House, St Georges Road, Bristol | 1984 | Stephen Joyce | Sculpture group | Bronze resin | Located in the courtyard of the former Royal Western Hotel, now student accommodation. |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | George III | Monument Place, London Road, Liverpool | 1822 | Richard Westmacott | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26629818 | [3] | |
More images | Albert, Prince Consort | St George's Hall, Liverpool | 1866 | Thomas Thornycroft | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q2633144 | [4] | |
More images | Queen Victoria | St George's Hall, Liverpool | 1869 | Thomas Thornycroft | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26643648 | [5] | |
More images | Edward VII | Pier Head, Liverpool | 1916 | Goscombe John | Statue on pedestal | Bronze | Grade II | Q26320984 | [6] | |
Red Rum | Aintree Racecourse | 1987 | Philip Blacker | Sculpture | Bronze | |||||
More images | The Great Escape | Canning Place, next to Merseyside Police Headquarters | 2000 | Edward Cronshaw | Group sculpture | Bronze | ||||
More images | Waiting - Liverpool Carters Working Horse monument | Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head | 2010 | Judy Boyt | Sculpture | |||||
Christ upon an ass | Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool | Brian Burgess | Sculpture | Bronze | [7] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Statue of Charles I | Charing Cross | 1633 | Hubert Le Sueur | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade I | Q7604492 | [8] | |
More images | William III | St James's Square | 1807 | John Bacon the Younger | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade I | Q17527231 | [9] | |
More images | George III | Pall Mall | 1835/6 | Matthew Coates Wyatt | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II | Q19902765 | [10] | |
More images | George IV | Trafalgar Square | 1840s | Sir Francis Chantrey | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q7604481 | [11] | |
More images | Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Royal Exchange, Cornhill | 1844 | Sir Francis Chantrey and Henry Weekes | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q18159872 | [12] | |
More images | Statue of Richard Coeur de Lion | Palace of Westminster | 1856 | Carlo Marochetti | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q7324819 | [13] | |
More images | Albert, Prince Consort | Holborn Circus | 1874 | Charles Bacon | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q23038443 | [14] | |
More images | Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Hyde Park Corner | 1888 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue on pedestal with 4 statues | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q18159875 | [15] | |
More images | Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala | Queen's Gate, Kensington | 1891, relocated 1921 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26555957 | [16] [17] | |
More images | Physical Energy | Kensington Gardens | 1907 | George Frederic Watts | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q18388413 | [18] | |
More images | Statue of Duke of Cambridge | Whitehall, opposite the War Office Building | 1907 | Adrian Jones | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q19516037 | John Belcher (architect) [19] | |
More images | Statue of Viscount Wolseley | Horse Guards Road, Whitehall | 1920 | William Goscombe John | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q18159880 | Richard Allison (architect) [20] | |
More images | Statue of Sir George Stuart White | Portland Place | 1922 | John Tweed | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II | Q18159865 | [21] | |
More images | Cavalry of the Empire Memorial | Hyde Park | 1924 | Adrian Jones | Statue on pedestal with surround | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II* | Q20794956 | Thomas Smith Tait & Sir John James Burnett (architects) [22] | |
More images | Edward VII | Waterloo Place, St. James's Park | 1924 | Bertram Mackennal | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II | Q19930022 | [23] | |
More images | Statue of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Horse Guards Road, Whitehall | 1924 | Henry Poole after Harry Bates | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q21286417 | Richard Allison (architect). [24] | |
More images | War Memorial | Prince Albert Road, outside St John's Wood Church | c.1925-1930 | Charles Leonard Hartwell | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II | Q26555473 | [25] [26] | |
More images | Statue of Ferdinand Foch | London Victoria station | 1930 | Georges Malissard | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II* | Q26263414 | P Lebret (architect) [27] [28] | |
More images | Memorial to Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Whitehall | 1937 | Alfred Frank Hardiman | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II* | Q5325895 | Stephen Rowland Pierce (architect) [29] [30] | |
White Horse of Hanover | Palm House, Kew Gardens | 1953 | Sir Henry Ross (based on James Woodford) | Sculpture | Portland stone | Q22673788 | One of ten statues known as the Queen's Beasts | |||
More images | Horse and Rider | Town Square, New Bond Street | 1975 | Elisabeth Frink | Sculpture | Bronze | 2.4m high | Grade II | Q25339096 | [31] |
More images | The Messenger | Quadrant House, Sutton | 1981 | David Wynne | Sculpture on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Q18748777 | |||
More images | Saint George and the Dragon | Dorset Rise | 1988 | Michael Sandle | Sculpture on column | Bronze | Q30303246 | |||
More images | The Cnihtengild | Devonshire Square | 1990 | Denys Mitchell | Sculpture | Bronze |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Statue of George I | Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham | 1722 | Workshop of John Nost the Elder | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26565300 | Commissioned by the city of Dublin in 1717; sold to the Barber Institute in 1937. [32] [33] | |
More images | Albert, Prince Consort | Queen Square, Wolverhampton | 1866 | Thomas Thornycroft | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26497548 | [34] | |
More images | Horse and Tamer | Malvern and Brueton Park, Solihull | 1874 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue group on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26626782 | [35] | |
More images | Lady Godiva | Broadgate, Coventry | 1949 | William Reid Dick | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II* | Q17540305 | [36] | |
Iron Horse | Wolverhampton station, Wolverhampton | 1987 | Kevin Atherton | Sculpture | Painted steel | 1.8m high x 2.4m long | One of a series of 12 between Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street railway stations. [37] | |||
More images | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Cathedral Green, Derby | 1995 | Anthony Stone | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and sandstone | 2.3m high | [38] | ||
Horse and Rider | The Lunt, Wolverhampton | Tessa Pullan | Statue | Galvanised steel | [39] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | King William III | Market Place, Kingston upon Hull | 1734 | Peter Scheemakers | Gilt statue on pedestal | Grade I | Q17528554 | [40] | ||
More images | Charles II of England trampling Cromwell | Newby Hall, North Yorkshire | 17th century, amended 18th century | Statue on pedestal | Marble with bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26577517 | Relocated from London in 1883 [41] | ||
More images | Statue of Viscount Combermere | Grosvenor Road, Chester | 1865 | Carlo Marochetti | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | 7.1m tall | Grade II* | Q15978984 | [42] |
More images | Field Marshal Viscount Gough | Chillingham Castle, Northumberland | 1878 | John Henry Foley | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | First erected in Dublin in 1878, re-located in 1988. [43] [44] | |||
More images | Edward, the Black Prince | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Thomas Brock | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II* | Q17533834 | [45] | |
More images | Newcastle & District War memorial | Old Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1923 | Charles Leonard Hartwell | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II* | Q26409308 | Cackett and Burns (architects). [46] [47] | |
More images | Harry Hotspur | Alnwick Castle, Northumberland | Statue on pedestal |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | King William III | The Square, Petersfield, Hampshire | 18th-century, restored 1912 | Statue on pedestal | Lead and stone | Grade I | Q17528308 | [48] | ||
More images | King Charles II | Upper Ward, Windsor Castle, Berkshire | 1679 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Q98270909 | ||||
More images | The Copper Horse , statue of King George III | Snow Hill, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire | 1824-30 | Richard Westmacott | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade I | Q7727584 | [49] | |
More images | Monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Claycart Road, Aldershot | 1846 | Matthew Cotes Wyatt | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | 9.1m high | Grade II | Q7981504 | Originally sited at Hyde Park Corner, London. [50] [51] |
More images | Albert, Prince Consort | Windsor Great Park, Berkshire | 1887 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26609381 | [52] | |
More images | Equestrian statue of Sir Redvers Buller | Hele Road, Exeter | 1902 | Adrian Jones | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26558036 | [53] [54] | |
More images | Equestrian statue of Edward Horner | Church of St Andrew, Mells, Somerset | 1917 | Alfred Munnings (sculptor), Sir Edwin Lutyens (architect) | Statue on cenotaph with battlefield cross | Bronze, stone and wood | Q29600659 | [55] [56] | ||
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Kitchener Barracks, Chatham, Kent | Relocated 1960 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q26558560 | Statue originally stood in Khartoum, relocated to Chatham in 1960. [57] [58] | |||
Hyperion | High Street, Newmarket 52°14′36″N0°24′17″E / 52.24335°N 0.40461°E | 1961 | John Skeaping | Equestrian sculpture on pedestal | Bronze and stone | 2.00 m high (sculpture) | Commissioned by John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby. Sited in front of the Jockey Club Rooms. [59] | |||
More images | Emperor Nerva | Southgate Street, Gloucester | 2002 | Anthony Stones | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | [60] | |||
More images | Equestrian statue of Elizabeth II, Windsor Great Park | Windsor Great Park | 2003 | Philip Jackson | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Q58339659 | |||
More images | The Fine Lady | Banbury Cross, Banbury | 2005 | Andy Edwards, Carl Payne, Julian Jeffery (Artcycle Ltd.) | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | [61] | |||
The Queen's Statue | High Street, Newmarket 52°14′22.0″N0°23′37.3″E / 52.239444°N 0.393694°E | 2016 | Etienne Millner and Charlie Langton | Sculpture | Bronze, on plinth of Portland stone | Queen Elizabeth II, with mare and foal, is depicted in 1977, the year of her Silver Jubilee. [62] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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William III | Orange Hall, Clifton Street, Belfast | Harry Hems | Statue on plinth | Bronze |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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The Horse, 1514 Memorial | High Street, Hawick | 1914 | William Francis Beattie | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Category A | Q17571529 | [63] [64] | ||
More images | Border Reivers | Cornmill Square, Galashiels | 1925 | Thomas J Clapperton | Statue on pedestal and steps | Bronze and stone | Category B | Q17853847 | [65] | |
More images | Saint George | The Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm, Orkney | 1943 | Italian Prisoners of War | Statue on pedestal | Barbed wire covered in concrete | [66] | |||
More images | Statue of Robert the Bruce | Bannockburn | 1964 | Pilkington Jackson | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Category A | [67] [68] | ||
More images | Robert The Bruce | Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen | 2011 | Alan Beattie Herriot | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | [69] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Charles II | Parliament Square, Edinburgh | 1685 | Statue on pedestal | Lead and stone | Category A | Q17570718 | The pedestal is an 1835 replica of mason Robert Mylne's original. [70] | ||
More images | John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun | Forecourt of the Royal Bank of Scotland, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh | 1824-29 | Thomas Campbell | Sculptural group on plinth | Bronze and granite | Category A | Q17570750 | Designed in 1829 for Charlotte Square but erected in 1834 at Dundas House. [71] | |
More images | Alexander the Great and Bucephalus | Courtyard of Edinburgh City Chambers, High Street | 1832–83 | John Steell | Sculpture group | Statue and pedestal | Category A | Q17570725 | Modelled 1832, cast 1883. [72] | |
More images | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh | 1848-52 | John Steell | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Category A | Q17570765 | Architects: David Bryce and James Gowans. [73] | |
More images | Memorial to Albert, Prince Consort | Charlotte Square, Edinburgh | 1862–76 | John Steell | Statue on pedestal with other sculptures | Bronze and Peterhead granite | Category A | Q17570702 | David Bryce (architect). [74] | |
More images | Royal Scots Greys Memorial | West Princes Street Gardens | 1906 | William Birnie Rhind | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Category B | Q17813285 | [75] | |
More images | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Hospital Square, Edinburgh Castle | 1923 | George Edward Wade | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Category B | Q17813234 | [76] | |
Horse~Rider~Eagle | Silvermills, Edinburgh | 1996 | Eoghan Bridge | Equestrian statue | Bronze |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Statue of William II of Scotland | Cathedral Square, Glasgow | 1735 | Unknown | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Category A | Q17567391 | [77] | |
More images | Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow | 1844 | Carlo Marochetti | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Category A | Q7981506 | [78] | |
More images | Queen Victoria | George Square, Glasgow | 1854 | Carlo Marochetti | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Category A | Q17567473 | First equestrian statue of a woman in Britain. [79] | |
More images | Albert, Prince Consort | George Square, Glasgow | 1866 | Carlo Marochetti | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Category A | Q17567468 | [80] | |
Saint George | St George's Cross, Glasgow | 1897 | Charles Blenkarn Grassby (sculptor), J & G Mossman (masons) | Statue on pedestal | Stone | Category C | [81] | |||
More images | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Kelvingrove Park | 1916 | Henry Poole after Harry Bates | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Category A | Q17576740 | [82] [83] | |
More images | Lobey Dosser | Woodlands Road, Glasgow | 1992 | Ranald MacColl (designer), Tony Morrow & Nick Gillion (sculptors) | Statue | Bronze | Statue of cartoon characters created by Bud Neill. [84] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar | Cathays Park, Cardiff | 1909 | William Goscombe John | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q29491649 | [85] | |
More images | The Two Kings | Harlech, Gwynedd | 1984 | Ivor Roberts-Jones | Statue | Bronze | Figures represent Bran the Blessed and Gwern from the Mabinogion . | |||
More images | Owain Glyndŵr | The Square, Corwen, Denbighshire | 2007 | Colin Spofforth | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | 4.5m high | [86] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Sir Hugh Calveley (The Perfect Knight) | Middle Ward of Mont Orgueil Castle, Gorey, Jersey | Statue | Bronze |
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, was an Austrian-born British medallist and sculptor, best known for the "Jubilee head" of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. During his career Boehm maintained a large studio in London and produced a significant volume of public works and private commissions. A speciality of Boehm's was the portrait bust; there are many examples of these in the National Portrait Gallery. He was often commissioned by the Royal Family and members of the aristocracy to make sculptures for their parks and gardens. His works were many, and he exhibited 123 of them at the Royal Academy from 1862 to his death in 1890.
Baron Pietro Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti was an Italian-born French sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Britain. He completed many public sculptures, often in a neo-classical style, plus reliefs, memorials and large equestrian monuments in bronze and marble. In 1848, Marochetti settled in England, where he received commissions from Queen Victoria. Marochetti received great recognition during his lifetime, being made a baron in Italy and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government.
Sir Thomas Brock was an English sculptor and medallist, notable for the creation of several large public sculptures and monuments in Britain and abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most famous work is the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Other commissions included the redesign of the effigy of Queen Victoria on British coinage, the massive bronze equestrian statue of Edward, the Black Prince, in City Square, Leeds and the completion of the statue of Prince Albert on the Albert Memorial.
Matthew Noble was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work, memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen, displayed in locations such as Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and Parliament Square, London.
Sir William Goscombe John was a prolific Welsh sculptor known for his many public memorials. As a sculptor, John developed a distinctive style of his own while respecting classical traditions and forms of sculpture. He gained national attention with statues of eminent Victorians in London and Cardiff and subsequently, after both the Second Boer War and World War I, created a large number of war memorials. These included the two large group works, The Response 1914 in Newcastle upon Tyne and the Port Sunlight War Memorial which are considered the finest sculptural ensembles on any British monument.
Frederick William Pomeroy was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He became a leading sculptor in the New Sculpture movement, a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and for their works of architectural sculpture. Pomeroy had several significant public works in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, notably in Belfast. His work in London includes the figure of Lady Justice (1905–1906) on the dome of the Old Bailey.
Henry Poole was a British architectural sculptor.
Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson RSA, FRBS, FRSA was a British sculptor prominent in Scotland in the 20th century. Throughout his career he worked closely with the architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He is most noteworthy for his creation of one of Scotland's most iconic landmarks, the statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.
Thomas John Clapperton FRBS was a Scottish sculptor, famous for the statue of Robert the Bruce at the entrance of Edinburgh Castle erected in 1929.
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