Statues in London
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This is a gallery of statues and sculptural groups in London.
Actors
[edit]-
Edward Alleyn
(Louise Simson, 2005)
Dulwich College -
Sarah Siddons
(L.-J. Chavalliaud, 1897)
Paddington Green -
Sir Henry Irving
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1910)
Charing Cross Road -
Charlie Chaplin
(John Doubleday, 1981)
Leicester Square -
Lord Olivier
(Angela Conner, 2007)
National Theatre
Allegorical
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Physical Energy
(G. F. Watts; erected 1907)
Kensington Gardens -
Peace
(Adrian Jones, 1908–12)
Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner
Animals
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Lion and Unicorn
(Grinling Gibbons, 1701)
Hampton Court -
South Bank Lion
(W. F. Woodington, 1837)
County Hall, South Bank -
Lion
(W. F. Woodington, 1837)
Twickenham Stadium -
Prehistoric creatures
(Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1852–4)
Crystal Palace Park -
Lions
(Sir Edwin Landseer, 1867)
Trafalgar Square -
Guy the Gorilla
(William Timym, 1982)
London Zoo -
Hodge
(Jon Bickley, 1997)
Gough Square -
Eagle
(William Reid Dick, 1922)
RAF memorial, Victoria Embankment -
Baby Tembo
(Derrick Hudson, 2002)
London School of Economics -
Stephen and Stitt
(after W. W. Wagstaff, 2002)
HSBC Group, Canary Wharf -
Isis
(Simon Gudgeon, 2009)
Hyde Park -
Penguin
(Yolanda vanderGaast, 2009)
London School of Economics -
Cats
Hampstead Road, Camden Town -
Queen's Beasts
(James Woodford, 1958)
Kew Gardens -
King's Beasts
Hampton Court -
Eagle
(Mieczysław Lubelski, 1947)
Polish War Memorial, Northolt
Anonymous
[edit]-
The Building Worker
Tower Hill -
Bronze Woman
Stockwell -
The Black Friar
Blackfriars, on pub -
The Cordwainer
Watling Street -
The Gardener
London Wall -
Greek Runner
St Peter’s Square, Hammersmith -
The In-Penshioner
Royal Hospital, Chelsea -
Juggling Figure
(Simon Stringer, 1994)
Hoxton Market -
The Meeting Place
St Pancras Station -
The Messenger
(Allan Sly, 1993)
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington -
Out in the Fields
Kew Gardens -
A Sower
Kew Gardens -
The Window-Cleaner
Edgware Road -
Young Dancer
Covent Garden
Architects and landscape architects
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Andrea Palladio
Chiswick House -
Inigo Jones
Chiswick House -
Capability Brown
Hammersmith -
Sir John Soane
Bank of England
Artists
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Terence Cuneo
Waterloo station -
William Hogarth
Chiswick -
Sir John Everett Millais
Tate Britain -
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Royal Academy -
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Chelsea Embankment
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Authors
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John Bunyan
Southampton Row -
Thomas Carlyle
Chelsea Embankment Gardens -
Samuel Johnson
St Clement Danes -
Lord Byron
Hyde Park Corner
Composers and musicians
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Béla Bartók
(Imre Varga, 2004)
South Kensington -
Fryderyk Chopin
(Bronisław Kubica, 1975)
Royal Festival Hall -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Philip Jackson, 1994)
Orange Square, Belgravia -
Amy Winehouse
(Scott Eaton, 2014)
Stables Market, Camden
Engineers
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Victoria Embankment -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Paddington station -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Brunel University, Uxbridge -
James Henry Greathead
Royal Exchange -
Robert Stephenson
Euston station -
Richard Green
(E. W. Wyon, 1866)
Poplar Baths -
Nigel Gresley
(Hazel Reeves, 2016)
King's Cross Station
Explorers
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Christopher Columbus
Belgrave Square -
Captain James Cook
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1914)
The Mall -
Captain James Cook
(Sir Arthur Weller, 1994)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich -
Sir Francis Drake
(William McMillan, 1959)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich -
Matthew Flinders
(Mark Richards, 2014)
Euston Station -
Yuri Gagarin
Royal Obeservatory, Greenwich -
David Livingstone
(T. B. Huxley-Jones, 1953)
Royal Geographical Society, Kensington -
Robert Falcon Scott
Waterloo Place -
Ernest Shackleton
Royal Geographical Society, Kensington -
Captain John Smith
(C. Renick afer W. Couper, 1960)
Bow Churchyard
Fictional characters
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Sherlock Holmes
Baker Street tube station -
John Jorrocks
George Street, Croydon -
Paddington Bear
Paddington station -
Peter Pan
Kensington Gardens -
Prospero and Ariel
Broadcasting House
Mythological
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The Rescue of Andromeda
Tate Britain -
Atlas
Albert Embankment -
Diana
Hyde Park -
Diana
Bushy Park -
Diana
Green Park -
The Death of Dirce
Tate Britain -
Hercules slaying the Dragon
Kew Gardens -
Minerva
(Alan Collins, 1966)
Southwark -
Neptune
10 Trinity Square, City of London
Merchants, businessmen and manufacturers
[edit]-
Sir Robert Clayton
(Grinling Gibbons, 1702)
St Thomas’Hospital -
Sir Hugh Myddelton
Islington Green -
Thomas Guy
(Peter Scheemakers, 1731)
Guy’s Hospital -
Robert Milligan
(Richard Westmacott, 1813)
Museum of London Docklands -
Samuel Bourne Bevington
Tooley Street, Southwark -
Lord Nuffield
Guy’s Hospital
Military leaders
[edit]British Army
[edit]-
Lord Alanbrooke
(Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1993)
Whitehall -
Lord Alexander
(James Butler, 1985)
Wellington Barracks, Victoria -
Charles George Gordon
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Earl Haig
(Alfred Frank Hardiman, 1937)
Whitehall -
Sir Henry Havelock
Trafalgar Square -
Lord Kitchener
(John Tweed, 1926)
Horse Guards Road -
Lord Montgomery
(Oscar Nemon, 1980)
Whitehall -
Charles James Napier
Trafalgar Square -
Lord Napier
(J. Edgar Boehm, 1891)
Queen’s Gate, Kensington -
Sir James Outram
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Lord Roberts
(Henry Poole, 1924)
Horse Guards Parade -
Lord Slim
(Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1990)
Whitehall -
Sir George Stuart White
Portland Place, Fitzrovia -
James Wolfe
(R. Tait McKenzie, 1927)
Greenwich Park -
Lord Wolseley
(William Goscombe John, 1920)
Horse Guards Parade
Royal Navy
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Admiral Lord Nelson
Trafalgar Square
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Royal Air Force
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Lord Trenchard
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Lord Dowding
St Clement Danes -
Sir Arthur Harris
St Clement Danes -
Sir Keith Park
Waterloo Place -
Lord Portal
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Other countries
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Władysław Sikorski
(Faith Winter, 2000)
Portland Place -
Ferdinand Foch
Victoria Station
Philosophers
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Confucius
Maughan Library, Chancery Lane -
Thiruvalluvar
SOAS, Bloomsbury -
Sir Thomas More
Old City of London School, Victoria Embankment -
Sir Thomas More
Corner of Serle St and Carey St, near Lincoln's Inn -
Sir Thomas More
Chelsea Old Church -
Francis Bacon
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
Francis Bacon
Old City of London School, Victoria Embankment -
Francis Bacon
Gray's Inn -
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
John Locke
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
Adam Smith
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
Sigmund Freud
Swiss Cottage -
John Stuart Mill
(Thomas Woolner, 1878)
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Poets
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William Shakespeare
(Giovanni Fontana, 1874)
Leicester Square -
John Milton
St Giles-without-Cripplegate -
Robert Burns
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Lord Byron
Hyde Park Corner -
John Keats
Guy's Hospital -
John Betjeman
St Pancras station
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Politicians
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Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford
Russell Square -
Lord George Bentinck
(Thomas Campbell, 1848)
Cavendish Square -
Richard Cobden
Camden High Street -
Spencer Compton, Duke of Devonshire
Whitehall -
William Edward Forster
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Charles James Fox
Bloomsbury Square -
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
William Huskisson
St George’s Gardens, Pimlico -
Sir Wilfrid Lawson
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Sir Simon Milton
(Bruce Denny, 2014)
Paddington Basin -
Sir Simon Milton
(Philip Jackson, 2016)
Potters Fields, Southwark -
Alfred Salter
(Diane Gorvin, 2014)
Cherry Gardens, Bermondsey -
Sir Sydney Waterlow
Waterlow Park, Highgate -
Sir Sydney Waterlow
Palace Street, Westminster -
Robert Grosvenor, Marquess of Westminster
Wilton Crescent, Belgravia -
John Wilkes
(James Butler, 1988)
Fetter Lane
Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
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William Pitt the Younger
Hanover Square -
George Canning
Parliament Square -
Duke of Wellington
Royal Exchange -
Duke of Wellington
Hyde Park Corner -
Duke of Wellington
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich -
Robert Peel
Parliament Square -
The Earl of Derby
Parliament Square -
Lord Palmerston
Parliament Square -
Benjamin Disraeli
Parliament Square -
William Ewart Gladstone
Bow Church -
William Ewart Gladstone
Strand -
David Lloyd George
Parliament Square -
Winston Churchill
Parliament Square -
Winston Churchill
Woodford Green -
Clement Attlee
Queen Mary University of London
Presidents of the United States
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George Washington
Trafalgar Square -
Abraham Lincoln
Parliament Square -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grosvenor Square -
Dwight Eisenhower
Grosvenor Square -
Ronald Reagan
Grosvenor Square
Leaders of other countries
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Charles de Gaulle
Carlton Gardens -
Mahatma Gandhi
Parliament Square -
Mahatma Gandhi
Tavistock Square -
Nelson Mandela
Parliament Square -
Francisco de Miranda
Fitzroy Street -
Simón Bolívar
Belgrave Square -
José de San Martín
Belgrave Square -
Bernardo O'Higgins
Richmond Bridge, Richmond upon Thames -
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Parliament Square -
The Emperor Trajan
Tower Hill
Religious figures
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William Tyndale
(J. Edgar Boehm, 1884)
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
John Whitgift
Croydon Town Hall -
John Wesley
Wesley’s Chapel, Shoreditch -
John Wesley
St Paul’s Churchyard -
Robert Raikes
(Sir Thomas Brock, 1880)
Victoria Embankment Gardens -
Isaac Watts
Abney Park Cemetery -
William Booth
William Booth College, Denmark Hill -
Catherine Booth
William Booth College, Denmark Hill
Saints
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Saint Thomas Becket
(Edward Bainbridge Copnall, 1973)
St Paul’s Churchyard -
Saint George and the Dragon (Adrian Jones, 1924)
Hyde Park -
Saint George and the Dragon
Dorset Rise, City of London -
Saint George and the Dragon (Charles Leonard Hartwell, 1935)
St John's Wood -
Saint Joan of Arc
St Dominic's Priory Church, Kentish Town -
Saint John Henry Newman (Léon-Joseph Chavaillaud, 1895)
Brompton Oratory -
Saint Mary
St Mary's Church, Hampstead -
Saint Michael the Archangel (Richard Reginald Goulden, 1920)
St Michael on Cornhill, City of London -
Saint Paul
St Paul's Churchyard, City of London
Royalty
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Boudica and her daughters (T. & H. Thornycroft, 1856–83)
Westminster Pier -
King Lud and his sons
St Dunstan-in-the-West -
Alfred the Great
Trinity Church Square, Southwark -
Richard I
(Carlo Marochetti, 1856)
Old Palace Yard, Westminster -
Edward I
National Westminster Bank, High Holborn -
Henry VIII
St Bartholomew's Hospital -
Edward VI
(Thomas Cartwright, 1682)
St Thomas’ Hospital -
Edward VI
(Peter Scheemakers, 1736)
St Thomas’ Hospital -
Elizabeth I
St Dunstan-in-the-West -
Elizabeth I
Harrow School -
Elizabeth I
(Matthew Spender, 2010)
Westminster School -
Mary Queen of Scots
143 Fleet Street -
James I and VI
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square -
Anne of Denmark
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square -
Charles I
(Hubert Le Sueur, 1633)
Charing Cross -
Charles I
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square -
Charles II
Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square -
Charles II
Royal Hospital, Chelsea -
Charles II
(Caius Gabriel Cibber, 1681)
Soho Square -
James II and VII
(Grinling Gibbons, 1686)
Trafalgar Square -
William III
(John Bacon, Jr., 1807)
St James's Square -
William III
Kensington Palace -
Queen Anne
Queen Anne's Gate -
Queen Anne
St Paul's Cathedral -
Queen Anne
Kingston upon Thames Market Hall -
George II
Old Royal Naval College -
George II
Golden Square -
George III
Somerset House -
George III
Pall Mall -
Queen Charlotte
Queen Square, Bloomsbury -
George IV
Trafalgar Square -
Prince Frederick, Duke of York (Richard Westmacott, 1832–4) Waterloo Place
-
William IV (Samuel Nixon, 1845) King William Walk, Greenwich
-
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Sebastian Gahagan, 1824) Park Crescent
-
Queen Victoria
Croydon -
Queen Victoria
Kensington Palace -
Queen Victoria
Victoria Square, Belgravia -
Queen Victoria
Blackfriars Bridge -
Queen Victoria
Carlton House Terrace -
Queen Victoria
Victoria Memorial, The Mall -
Prince Albert
Albert Memorial, Kensington -
Prince Albert
Holborn Circus -
Prince Albert
(Joseph Durham, 1863)
Royal Albert Hall -
Edward VII
Waterloo Place -
Edward VII
Tooting Broadway -
Edward VII
National Westminster Bank, High Holborn -
Queen Alexandra
London Hospital, Mile End Road -
George V
Old Palace Yard, Westminster -
George VI
Carlton House Terrace -
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
The Mall
Rulers of other countries
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Henry the Navigator (Portugal)
Belgrave Square -
(Saint) Olaf II (Norway)
Norway House, Cockspur Street -
Peter the Great
(Russia)
Deptford -
(Saint) Volodymyr the Great (Ukraine)
Holland Park
Scientists and naturalists
[edit]-
Georges Cuvier
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
Carl Linnaeus
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair -
Charles Darwin
Natural History Museum -
Michael Faraday
Savoy Place -
Sir Isaac Newton
British Library -
Joseph Priestley
30 Russell Square, Bloomsbury -
Sir Peter Scott
(Nicola Godden, 2000)
London Wetland Centre, Barnes -
Alfred Russel Wallace
Natural History Museum
Social reformers
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Fenner Brockway
Red Lion Square -
John Cartwright
Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury -
Thomas Coram
Brunswick Square -
Millicent Fawcett
(Gillian Wearing, 2018)
Parliament Square -
Rowland Hill
King Edward Street -
Florence Nightingale
Waterloo Place -
Emmeline Pankhurst
Victoria Tower Gardens -
Ada Salter
(Diane Gorvin, 2014)
Cherry Gardens, Bermondsey
Sportspeople
[edit]-
boxing
Teddy Baldock
Langdon Park, Poplar -
cricket
W. G. Grace
(Louis Laumen, 2000)
Lord's -
football
Tony Adams
Emirates Stadium, Islington -
football
Sam Bartram
The Valley, Charlton -
football
Johnny Haynes
Craven Cottage, Fulham -
football
Bobby Moore
(Philip Jackson, 2003)
Wembley Stadium -
football
World Cup Sculpture: Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson (Philip Jackson, 2003) Upton Park, West Ham -
rugby
Line-Out
(Gerald Laing, 2010)
Twickenham Stadium -
tennis
Fred Perry
(David Wynne, 1984)
Wimbledon