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Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross
The equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross

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

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 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
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
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

House of Plantagenet

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Henry II
Richard I of England - Palace of Westminster - 24042004.jpg Richard I Outside the Palace of Westminster 1851 Carlo Marochetti
Kingjohn-Egham-DavidParfitt.JPG John Egham High Street 1997 David Parfitt
Henry III Maughan Library (King's College London), gateway on Chancery Lane 1891–6 Farmer & Brindley
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
Richard II

House of Lancaster

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI Eton College Chapel John Bacon
MK17834 Eton College.jpg School Yard, Eton 1719 Francis Bird

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 Torrigiano, PietroPietro Torrigiano
Henry VIII statue, St Bartholomew's Hospital.jpg Henry VIII Above the entrance to St Bartholomew's Hospital 1702–3 Bird, FrancisFrancis Bird
Sth stone stat all.jpg Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital 1682 Cartwright, ThomasThomas Cartwright Grade II*
Ed VI STH Bronze statue 2.jpg Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital 1736 Scheemakers, PeterPeter Scheemakers Grade II*
Queen Elizabeth I Statue, St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London.jpg Elizabeth I St Dunstan-in-the-West 1670–99 ?
Elizabeth I Royal Exchange 1844 Watson, MusgraveMusgrave Watson
Elizabeth I Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower 1866–7 Farmer & Brindley
Elizabeth I statue in Harrow (15346027101).jpg Elizabeth I Harrow School, south tower of Speech Room 19th century; installed on current site in 1925 Westmacott, RichardRichard Westmacott

House of Stuart

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Notes Source
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.
EH1393844 Temple Bar 13.jpg Anne of Denmark Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross.jpg Charles I Charing Cross

51°30′26″N 0°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.
EH1393844 Temple Bar 04.jpg Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1671 John Bushnell Intended for the Royal Exchange.
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1861–4 Thomas Thornycroft Intended for the Palace of Westminster.
EH1393844 Temple Bar 03.jpg Charles II Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2 John Bushnell
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1671 John Bushnell
Statue of King Charles II in Soho Square.jpg Soho Square 1681 Caius Gabriel Cibber
Royal Exchange 1789–91 John Spiller
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1865–71 Henry Weekes
Statue of James II, Trafalgar Square 01.JPG James II Trafalgar Square 1686 Peter Van Dievoet working in the studio of Grinling Gibbons
William III statue, St James's Square.jpg William III St. James's Square 1807 John Bacon the Younger
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1862–7 Thomas Woolner
Willem III, Kensington Palace.jpeg Outside Kensington Palace 1908 Heinrich Baucke
Mary II Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey 1862–8 Alexander Munro
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 tower 1866–7 Farmer & Brindley
Statue of Queen Anne at St. Paul's.jpg Outside the west front of St Paul's Cathedral 1886 Richard Claude Belt

House of Hanover

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
George I statue.JPG George I At the top of the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury 1730 Unknown
George II statue 1.jpg George II Golden Square 1720 John Nost the Elder
Royal-naval-college-gw.jpg Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1735 (unveiled) John Michael Rysbrack
George III and Father Thames.jpg George III The quadrangle at Somerset House 1780 John Bacon
George III statue, Pall Mall.jpg Pall Mall 1836 Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Queen Charlotte, Queen Square.jpg Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen Square, Bloomsbury c. 1775 Unknown
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany column.jpg Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Duke of York Column, Waterloo Place 1832–4 Sir Richard Westmacott
Statue of King George IV in Trafalgar Square, London (cropped).jpg George IV Trafalgar Square c. 1829–43 Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
King William IV - geograph.org.uk - 1168934.jpg William IV Greenwich, by the National Maritime Museum 1844 (unveiled) Samuel Nixon
Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.jpg Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn Park Crescent, Marylebone 1824 (unveiled) Sebastian Gahagan
Victoria Maughan Library (King's College London), central tower 1866–7 Farmer & Brindley
Royal Courts of Justice 20130414 056.JPG Temple Bar 1879–80 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Royal Exchange 1891–6 Hamo Thornycroft
Queen Victoria statue, Kensington Palace.jpg Kensington Gardens, outside Kensington Palace 1893 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
(with Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm)
Statue Of Queen Victoria-Blackfriars Bridge-London.JPG New Bridge Street (near Blackfriars Bridge) 1893–6 Charles Bell Birch
Queen Victoria statue, Carlton House Terrace.JPG Carlton House Terrace c. 1897–1902 Sir Thomas Brock
Queen Victoria in Croydon (cropped).jpg Croydon Town Hall 1903 (erected) Francis John Williamson
Victoria & Albert Museum 04.jpg Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade c. 1905–6 Alfred Drury
Queen Victoria statue, Victoria Memorial, London.jpg Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace 1911 (unveiled) Sir Thomas Brock
Queen Victoria by Catherine Laugel, Victoria Square Gardens.jpg Victoria Square 2007 Catherine Laugel
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge statue Whitehall.jpg Prince George, Duke of Cambridge Whitehall 1907 Adrian Jones

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
Prince Albert Equestrian Statue, Holborn (cropped).JPG Holborn Circus 1869–74 Charles Bacon
Victoria & Albert Museum 03.jpg Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade c. 1905–6 Alfred Drury
Statue of Edward VII as Prince of Wales (20664252012).jpg Edward VII Temple Bar 1879–80 Joseph Edgar Boehm
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade 1906 Sir William Goscombe John
Edward VII at Tooting (cropped).jpg Outside Tooting Broadway tube station 1911 Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn
Edward VII equestrian London 3.jpg Waterloo Place 1921 (unveiled) Bertram Mackennal
Alexandra of Denmark Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade 1906 Sir William Goscombe John
Statue of Queen Alexandra, Royal London Hospital (14518440501).jpg Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel 1908 George Edward Wade

House of Windsor

Image Monarch / ruler commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Westminster king george v statue 1.jpg George V Old Palace Yard 1947 (unveiled) Sir William Reid Dick
George VI - Statue - Carlton House Terrace - London - 310504.jpg George VI The Mall 1954 William McMillan
The Queen Mother in the Mall - geograph.org.uk - 1229136.jpg Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon The Mall 2009 (unveiled) Philip Jackson
Elizabeth II Bexleyheath Clock Tower 2013 (unveiled) Frances Segelman
Statue of Diana, Princess of Wales 3 (rotated).jpg Diana Spencer Kensington Palace 2021 (unveiled) Ian Rank-Broadley

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