Statue of Liberty, Leicester

The Leicester Statue of Liberty is a small replica of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by local stonemason Joseph Morcom installed at the twin Soar River bridges in Leicester, England.^[1]

Statue of Liberty
The statue with The Summit apartments in the background
Artist	Joseph Morcom
Location	Soar River bridges, Leicester

Background

The statue was the result of a visit to New York in 1919 by the directors of Lennards "Liberty" shoe factory, and originally stood on top of the shoe factory on the way to Filbert Street.^[2] The factory was demolished in 2003, but in 2008 the statue was restored near the original location on the western entrance to the Swan Gyratory, a large roundabout making use of two steel bridges across the Soar on the way to the King Power Stadium.^[3]

See also

• Replicas of the Statue of Liberty