List of statues of English and British royalty in London explained

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

House of Plantagenet

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
		Outside the Palace of Westminster	1851	Carlo Marochetti	^[4]
		Egham High Street	1997	David Parfitt	^[5]
		Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane	1891–6	Farmer & Brindley
		114–115 High Holborn	1903
		Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane	1891–6	Farmer & Brindley

House of Lancaster

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
		Eton College Chapel		John Bacon	^[6] ^[7]
		School Yard, Eton	1719	Francis Bird	^[8]

House of Stuart

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Notes	Source
		Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1861–4		Intended for the Palace of Westminster.
	Anne of Denmark	Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
		Charing Cross	1633		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.	^[9]
		Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1671		Intended for the Royal Exchange.
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1861–4		Intended for the Palace of Westminster.
		Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1671
		Soho Square	1681
		Royal Exchange	1789–91
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1865–71
		Trafalgar Square	1686	Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons		^[10]
		St. James's Square	1807	John Bacon the Younger		^[11]
		Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1862–7
		Outside Kensington Palace	1908	Heinrich Baucke		^[12]
	Mary II	Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey	1862–8
		Market House, Kingston upon Thames	1706
		Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster	1708 at latest
		Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower	1866–7	Farmer & Brindley
		Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral	1886	Richard Claude Belt		^[13]

House of Hanover

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
			At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury	1730	Unknown	^[14]
		Golden Square	1720
		Royal Naval College, Greenwich	1735 (unveiled)
		The quadrangle at Somerset House	1780
		Pall Mall	1836
	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Queen Square, Bloomsbury		Unknown
	Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany	Duke of York Column, Waterloo Place	1832–4
		Trafalgar Square
		Greenwich, by the National Maritime Museum	1844 (unveiled)
	Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn	Park Crescent, Marylebone	1824 (unveiled)
		Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower	1866–7	Farmer & Brindley
		Temple Bar	1879–80
		Royal Exchange	1891–6
		Kensington Gardens, outside Kensington Palace	1893
		New Bridge Street (near Blackfriars Bridge)	1893–6
		Carlton House Terrace
		Croydon Town Hall	1903 (erected)
		Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade
		Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace	1911 (unveiled)
		Victoria Square	2007
		Whitehall	1907

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
	Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Royal Exchange	1845–7
		Holborn Circus	1869–74
		Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade
		Temple Bar	1879–80
		Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade	1906		^[15]
		Outside Tooting Broadway tube station	1911
		Waterloo Place	1921 (unveiled)
	Alexandra of Denmark	Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade	1906
		Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel	1908

House of Windsor

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
		Old Palace Yard	1947 (unveiled)
		The Mall	1954
		The Mall	2009 (unveiled)
		Bexleyheath Clock Tower	2013 (unveiled)		^[16]
		Kensington Palace	2021 (unveiled)		^[17]

See also

• Queen Alexandra Memorial
• Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross
• Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Westminster

Notes and References

1. Web site: A Walk through Southwark . 2009-11-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100121042841/http://www.londongardenstrust.org/guides/southwark.htm . 2010-01-21 .
2. https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hampshire/winchester/alfred-statue.htm Statue of King Alfred the Great
3. Web site: Waltham Abbey Church. walthamabbeychurch.co.uk.
4. http://news.parliament.uk/2009/08/conservation-of-richard-the-lionhearts-statue/
5. http://www.bigartmob.com/DavidP/?page=2
6. Web site: The Parish of Greenford Magna - Edward Betham School . 2009-11-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721203223/http://www.greenfordmagna.info/bethamschool.asp . 2011-07-21 .
7. Eton . 9 . 853.
8. Web site: Eton - Towns & Villages in Windsor and Maidenhead.
9. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-209087-statue-of-charles-i-westminster Statue of Charles I – Westminster – Greater London – England | British Listed Buildings
10. Web site: George II. societe-jersiaise.org.
11. Web site: Jermyn Street Association - History . 2009-11-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090719210951/http://www.jermynstreet.net/about/history/st_james_square.php . 2009-07-19 .
12. Web site: William III, statue outside of Kensington Palace - Your Archives.
13. Web site: UK – London – The City: Queen Anne's Statue at St. Paul's Cathedral. Flickr. 10 November 2006.
14. Web site: St George's Bloomsbury . 2010-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100211033057/http://www.stgeorgesbloomsbury.org.uk/about/tour.html . 2010-02-11 .
15. Web site: Decorative sculpture on the exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Physik. John. 1978. Victoria and Albert Museum. 8 March 2014.
16. Web site: PICTURED: Commemorative bust of the Queen is unveiled at Bexleyheath Clock Tower . www.newsshopper.co.uk/.
17. Web site: William and Harry unite to unveil Diana statue at Kensington Palace. BBC. Hazel. Shearing. 1 July 2021. 1 July 2021. 1 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210701135505/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57684597. live.