List of statues of English and British royalty in London

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

The equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross

House of Mercia

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

House of Wessex

Image	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

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

House of Wessex – Restored

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

House of Normandy

Image	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

Image	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

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

House of York

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

House of Tudor

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	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

Image	Monarch / ruler commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Notes	Source
	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]
	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

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

Image	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]
		Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel	1908	George Edward Wade	[52]

House of Windsor

Image	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]

See also

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

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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