List of statues of English and British royalty in London

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The equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross

This is a list of statues of British royalty in London .

Contents

House of Mercia

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Offa of Mercia

House of Wessex

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Egbert of Wessex
Æthelwulf of Wessex
Æthelbald of Wessex
AEthelbert statue.JPG Æthelbert of Wessex
Æthelred of Wessex
Alfred The Great statue.JPG 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

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Sweyn I of Denmark
Canute the Great
Harold Harefoot
Harthacanute

House of Wessex – Restored

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwinson Waltham Abbey [3]
Edgar the Ætheling

House of Normandy

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
William I
William II
Henry I
Stephen
Matilda Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower1866–7 Farmer & Brindley [4]

House of Plantagenet

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Henry II
Richard I of England - Palace of Westminster - 24042004.jpg Richard I Outside the Palace of Westminster 1851 Carlo Marochetti [5]
Kingjohn-Egham-DavidParfitt.JPG John Egham High Street1997 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 Holborn1903
Edward II
Edward III Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane 1891–6 Farmer & Brindley [7]
Richard II

House of Lancaster

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI Eton College Chapel John Bacon [8] [9]
MK17834 Eton College.jpg School Yard, Eton1719 Francis Bird [10]

House of York

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III

House of Tudor

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Henry VII Tomb in Westminster Abbey 1518 Pietro Torrigiano [11]
Henry VIII statue, St Bartholomew's Hospital.jpg Henry VIII Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital 1702–3 Francis Bird [12]
Sth stone stat all.jpg
More images 		Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital 1682 Thomas Cartwright Grade II* [13]
Ed VI STH Bronze statue 2.jpg
More images 		Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital 1736 Peter Scheemakers Grade II* [14]
Queen Elizabeth I Statue, St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London.jpg 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 tower1866–7 Farmer & Brindley [4]
Elizabeth I statue in Harrow (15346027101).jpg Elizabeth I Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room19th century; installed on current site in 1925 Richard Westmacott

House of Stuart

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorNotesSource
EH1393844 Temple Bar 11.jpg 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]
EH1393844 Temple Bar 13.jpg Anne of Denmark Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Squarec. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross.jpg Charles I Charing Cross

51°30′26″N0°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. [18]
EH1393844 Temple Bar 04.jpg Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Squarec. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1671 John Bushnell Intended for the Royal Exchange. [19]
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1861–4 Thomas Thornycroft Intended for the Palace of Westminster. [20]
EH1393844 Temple Bar 03.jpg Charles II Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Squarec. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1671 John Bushnell [21]
Statue of King Charles II in Soho Square.jpg Soho Square 1681 Caius Gabriel Cibber
Royal Exchange 1789–91John Spiller [22]
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1865–71 Henry Weekes [23]
Statue of James II, Trafalgar Square 01.JPG James II Trafalgar Square 1686 Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons [24]
William III statue, St James's Square.jpg William III St. James's Square 1807 John Bacon the Younger [25]
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1862–7 Thomas Woolner [26]
Willem III, Kensington Palace.jpeg Outside Kensington Palace 1908Heinrich Baucke [27]
Mary II Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey1862–8 Alexander Munro [28]
Queen Anne's Statue In Kingston-upon-Thames Market Place - London.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
Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower1866–7 Farmer & Brindley [4]
Statue of Queen Anne at St. Paul's.jpg Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral 1886Richard Claude Belt [29]

House of Hanover

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
George I statue.JPG George I At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury 1730Unknown [30]
George II statue 1.jpg George II Golden Square 1720 John Nost the Elder [24]
Royal-naval-college-gw.jpg Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1735 (unveiled) John Michael Rysbrack [31]
George III and Father Thames.jpg George III The quadrangle at Somerset House 1780 John Bacon [32]
George III statue, Pall Mall.jpg Pall Mall 1836 Matthew Cotes Wyatt [33]
Queen Charlotte, Queen Square.jpg Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen Square, Bloomsbury c. 1775Unknown [34]
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany column.jpg Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Duke of York Column, Waterloo Place1832–4Sir Richard Westmacott [35]
Statue of King George IV in Trafalgar Square, London (cropped).jpg George IV Trafalgar Square c. 1829–43Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey [36]
King William IV - geograph.org.uk - 1168934.jpg William IV Greenwich, by the National Maritime Museum 1844 (unveiled)Samuel Nixon [37]
Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.jpg Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn Park Crescent, Marylebone 1824 (unveiled) Sebastian Gahagan [38]
Victoria Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower1866–7 Farmer & Brindley [4]
Royal Courts of Justice 20130414 056.JPG Temple Bar 1879–80Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm [39]
Royal Exchange 1891–6 Hamo Thornycroft [40]
Queen Victoria statue, Kensington Palace.jpg Kensington Gardens, outside Kensington Palace 1893 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
(with Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm)		 [41]
Statue Of Queen Victoria-Blackfriars Bridge-London.JPG New Bridge Street (near Blackfriars Bridge)1893–6 Charles Bell Birch [42]
Queen Victoria statue, Carlton House Terrace.JPG Carlton House Terrace c. 1897–1902Sir Thomas Brock [43]
Queen Victoria in Croydon (cropped).jpg Croydon Town Hall 1903 (erected) Francis John Williamson [44]
Victoria & Albert Museum 04.jpg Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façadec. 1905–6 Alfred Drury [45]
Queen Victoria statue, Victoria Memorial, London.jpg Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace 1911 (unveiled)Sir Thomas Brock [46]
Queen Victoria by Catherine Laugel, Victoria Square Gardens.jpg Victoria Square 2007Catherine Laugel
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge statue Whitehall.jpg Prince George, Duke of Cambridge Whitehall 1907 Adrian Jones [47]

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Royal Exchange 1845–7 John Graham Lough [48]
Prince Albert Equestrian Statue, Holborn (cropped).JPG Holborn Circus 1869–74Charles Bacon [49]
Victoria & Albert Museum 03.jpg Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façadec. 1905–6 Alfred Drury [45]
Statue of Edward VII as Prince of Wales (20664252012).jpg Edward VII Temple Bar 1879–80 Joseph Edgar Boehm [39]
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade1906Sir William Goscombe John [45]
Edward VII at Tooting (cropped).jpg Outside Tooting Broadway tube station 1911Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn [50]
Edward VII equestrian London 3.jpg Waterloo Place1921 (unveiled) Bertram Mackennal [51]
Alexandra of Denmark Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade1906Sir William Goscombe John [45]
Statue of Queen Alexandra, Royal London Hospital (14518440501).jpg Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel1908 George Edward Wade [52]

House of Windsor

ImageMonarch / ruler commemoratedLocationDateSculptorSource
Westminster king george v statue 1.jpg George V Old Palace Yard 1947 (unveiled)Sir William Reid Dick [53]
George VI - Statue - Carlton House Terrace - London - 310504.jpg George VI The Mall 1954William McMillan [54]
The Queen Mother in the Mall - geograph.org.uk - 1229136.jpg Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon The Mall 2009 (unveiled) Philip Jackson [55]
Elizabeth II Bexleyheath Clock Tower2013 (unveiled) Frances Segelman [56]
Statue of Diana, Princess of Wales 3 (rotated).jpg Diana Spencer Kensington Palace 2021 (unveiled) Ian Rank-Broadley [57]

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross</span> Historic site in Charing Cross railway station, London

The Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross is a memorial to Eleanor of Castile erected in the forecourt of Charing Cross railway station, London, in 1864–1865. It is a fanciful reconstruction of the medieval Eleanor cross at Charing, one of twelve memorial crosses erected by Edward I of England in memory of his first wife. The Victorian monument was designed by Edward Middleton Barry, also the architect of the railway station, and includes multiple statues of Queen Eleanor by the sculptor Thomas Earp. It is located 200 metres (220 yd) northeast of the original site of the Charing Cross, which is now occupied by Hubert Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I, installed in 1675; both are along the Strand roadway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Equestrian statue of Ferdinand Foch, London</span> Sculpture in Grosvenor Gardens, London

The equestrian statue of Ferdinand Foch stands in Lower Grosvenor Gardens, London. The sculptor was Georges Malissard and the statue is a replica of another raised in Cassel, France. Foch, appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front in the Spring of 1918, was widely seen as the architect of Germany's ultimate defeat and surrender in November 1918. Among many other honours, he was made an honorary Field marshal in the British Army, the only French military commander to receive such a distinction. Following Foch's death in March 1929, a campaign was launched to erect a statue in London in his memory. The Foch Memorial Committee chose Malissard as the sculptor, who produced a replica of his 1928 statue of Foch at Cassel. The statue was unveiled by the Prince of Wales on 5 June 1930. Designated a Grade II listed structure in 1958, the statue's status was raised to Grade II* in 2016.

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