List of statues of Queen Victoria
This is a list of statues of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, in locations worldwide.[1][2][3]
United Kingdom
Scotland
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Aberdeen[4] Queen's Cross |
1893 | Charles Bell Birch | |
Aberdeen Aberdeen's Town House. Originally on the corner of St. Nicholas and Union Streets |
1866 | Alexander Brodie | |
Balmoral Balmoral Estate |
1887 | ||
Dundee Albert Square |
1899 | Harry Bates | |
Edinburgh[5] |
1844 | Sir John Steell | |
Leith[6] Foot of Leith Walk |
1907 | John Stephenson Rhind | |
Glasgow[7] |
1897–1914 | Albert Hodge | |
Glasgow George Square |
1854 | Baron Marochetti | |
Glasgow Doulton Fountain, Glasgow Green |
1890 | ||
Paisley Dunn Square |
1901 | Francis John Williamson |
North East England
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Newcastle |
1906 | Sir George Frampton | |
Newcastle St Nicholas Square |
1901 | Sir Alfred Gilbert | |
South Shields Outside South Shields Town Hall |
1913 | Albert Toft | |
Tynemouth Front Street |
1902 | Alfred Turner | |
North West England
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Blackburn |
1905 | Sir Bertram Mackennal | |
Carlisle Bitts Park |
1902 | Thomas Brock | |
Chester Forecourt of Chester Castle |
1903 | Frederick William Pomeroy | |
Queen Victoria Memorial
Lancaster Dalton Square |
1906 | Herbert Hampton | |
Liverpool St. George's Hall |
1870 | Thomas Thornycroft | |
Victoria Monument Liverpool |
1906 | C. J. Allen | |
Manchester |
1901 | Edward Onslow Ford | |
Statue of Queen Victoria St Helens Victoria Square |
1905 | Sir George Frampton | |
Salford |
1857 | ||
Southport Neville Street |
Sir George Frampton | ||
Yorkshire and the Humber
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Bradford Morley Street / Little Horton Lane |
1904 | Alfred Drury | |
Harrogate Victoria Gardens, Station Square |
1887 | ||
Kingston upon Hull |
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Kingston upon Hull |
1903 | J.S. Gibson | |
Leeds Woodhouse Moor Park (Originally outside Town Hall) |
Sir George Frampton | ||
Scarborough Borough Gardens |
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Sheffield Endcliffe Park (Originally outside Town Hall) |
1904 | ||
Wakefield Castrop Rauxel Square (Originally placed in Bull Ring, moved to Clarence Park in 1950, returned to city centre in 1985) |
1905 | Francis John Williamson | |
York West Bank Park, York (Originally Guildhall) |
1905 | George Walker Milburn, 1844-1941 | |
West Midlands
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Birmingham |
1951 (after original of 1901) | William Bloye (bronze cast of marble original by Sir Thomas Brock) | |
Newcastle Under Lyme Queen's Gardens |
1903 | CB Birch | |
Royal Leamington Spa Town Hall, The Parade |
1901 | Albert Toft | |
Worcester Shire Hall, Foregate Street |
1887 | Sir Thomas Brock | |
East Midlands
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Derby Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby |
1906 | Charles Bell Birch | |
Nottingham Memorial Gardens, Victoria Embankment |
1905 | Albert Toft | |
East Anglia
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Ipswich Christchurch Mansion (Melted down for munitions in 1943) |
1904 | ||
Woodbridge Memorial Garden, Market Hill |
1888 | J. Wormleighton | |
South East England
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Abingdon, Oxfordshire Abbey Grounds |
1887 | ||
Brighton, Sussex Victoria Gardens |
1897 | ||
Canterbury, Kent |
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Colchester, Essex Colchester Town Hall |
1902 | L.J. Watts | |
Egham, Surrey Royal Holloway University |
Gleichen | ||
Harwich, Essex Marine Parade, Dovercourt |
1904 | ||
Hastings, Sussex Warrior Square Gardens, St Leonards-on-Sea |
Francis John Williamson | ||
Hove, Sussex Grand Avenue |
1897–1901 | Sir Thomas Brock | |
Gravesend, Kent Darnley road |
1897 | ||
Gravesend, Kent Gravesend Borough Market |
1898 | ||
Maidstone, Kent High Street, Maidstone |
1862 | John Thomas | |
Newbury, Berkshire |
1902–3 | ||
Portsmouth Guildhall Square |
1903 | Alfred Drury | |
Reading, Berkshire Friar Street |
1887 | George Blackall Simonds | |
Southend-On-Sea, Essex Clifftown Terrace |
1897 | ||
Windsor, Berkshire |
1887 | Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm | |
(Victoria and Albert in Saxon dress)[9] Windsor, Berkshire |
1867 | William Theed | |
Winchester, Hampshire Winchester Castle Great Hall |
1887 | Sir Alfred Gilbert |
Greater London
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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City of London |
1893 and 1896 | Charles Bell Birch | |
City of London |
1891–6 | William Hamo Thornycroft[10] | |
Croydon Town Hall, Katherine Street |
1903 | Francis John Williamson | |
Statue of Queen Victoria, Kensington Palace |
1893 | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | |
Westminster |
1888 | ||
Lambeth St Thomas's Hospital |
1873 | Matthew Noble | |
Westminster |
c. 1898–1902 | Sir Thomas Brock | |
Westminster Victoria Memorial |
1911 | Sir Thomas Brock | |
Westminster |
2007 | Catherine Laugel | |
Woolwich |
1906 (erected) | Frederick William Pomeroy[11] | |
South West England
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Barnstaple | |||
Bath Victoria Art Gallery |
c.1897 | Andrea Carlo Lucchesi | |
Bristol Tower of the former Assize Court, Small Street |
1867-1870 | Architects TS Pope & J Bindon | |
Queen Victoria |
1888 | Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm | |
Burleston Athelhampton House Gardens |
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Exeter Little Queen Street |
1848 | ||
Weymouth Esplanade, outside St John's Church |
1902 | George Blackall Simonds | |
Wales
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Wrexham |
1904 | Henry Price[12] | |
Llandudno Monument and statue, Happy Valley Park |
1887 |
Northern Ireland
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Belfast |
1903 | Sir Thomas Brock | |
Derry |
1898 | Francis John Williamson[13] |
Europe (other)
Republic of Ireland
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Cork
University College Cork |
1849 | "A local Cork sculptor" |
Gibraltar
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Governor's Parade | 1910 | Unknown |
Jersey
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Jersey Victoria Park |
1887 | Georges Wallet |
Malta
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Statue of Queen Victoria | 1891 | Giuseppe Valenti |
North America
Canada
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Hamilton, Ontario Gore Park |
1908 | Philippe Hébert[17] | |
Kitchener, Ontario Victoria Park |
1911 | Cavaliere Raffaele Zaccaquini[18] | |
Montreal, Quebec[19] Royal Victoria College, McGill University |
1899 | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | |
Montreal, Quebec Victoria Memorial, Victoria Square |
1872 | Marshall Wood | |
Ottawa, Ontario Parliament Hill |
1901 | Louis-Philippe Hébert | |
Ottawa, Ontario Library of Parliament |
1871 | Marshall Wood | |
Quebec City, Quebec Parc Victoria[note 1] |
1897 | Marshall Wood | |
River Glade, New Brunswick | 1913 | ||
Toronto, Ontario Queen's Park |
1903 | Mario Raggi | |
Victoria, British Columbia Statue of Queen Victoria, British Columbia Parliament Buildings |
1914 | Allen Bruce Joy | |
Winnipeg, Manitoba Queen Victoria Statue, Manitoba Legislative Building |
1904 | George Frampton |
Caribbean
Bahamas
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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1905 | John Adams-Acton | ||
Belize
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Guyana
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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(Queen Victoria Monument)[21] |
1894 | H. R. Hope Porter |
Jamaica
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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1897 | Emanuel Edward Geflowski |
Oceania
Australia
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Queen Victoria Statue. Victoria Square, Adelaide | 1889 | Charles Bell Birch | |
Queen Victoria Statue. Queen Victoria Square. Sturt Street Gardens, Ballarat | 1897–1900 | Bertram Mackennal | |
Queen Victoria Statue. Rosalind Park. Pall Mall, Bendigo | 1903 | James White | |
Brisbane Queens Gardens |
1906 | Thomas Brock | |
(Queen Victoria Memorial)[22] Melbourne |
1907 | James White | |
Perth Kings Park |
1903 | Francis John Williamson | |
Sydney General Post Office building, Martin Place |
1883 | Signor Giovanni Fontana | |
Queen Victoria Monument. Eastern Park (formerly of Market Square). Geelong, Victoria. | 1903 | ||
Queen Victoria Queen Victoria Building, Druitt Street, Sydney |
1904 (in Dublin) 1987 (in Sydney) |
John Hughes | |
Sydney Queen's Square |
1888 | Joseph Boehm |
New Zealand
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Auckland |
1899[23] | Francis John Williamson[24] | |
Christchurch[25] Victoria Square |
1903[26] | Francis John Williamson[27] | |
Dunedin[28] |
1905[29] | Herbert Hampton[28] | |
Wellington Cambridge Terrace / Kent Terrace |
1905[30] | Alfred Drury[30] (copy of his Portsmouth, England statue) |
Asia
Hong Kong
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Hong Kong Victoria Park |
1896 | Mario Raggi[31] |
India
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Statue of Queen Victoria, Bangalore[32][33] |
1906 | Thomas Brock | |
Kolkata[34] Victoria Memorial |
1921 | Thomas Brock | |
Kolkata[35] Victoria Memorial |
1901 | George Frampton | |
Kolkata Indian Museum |
1875 | Marshall Wood | |
Mathura |
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Chennai Southern side of the Madras University[36] |
1887 | ||
Queen Victoria Pavilion, Visakhapatnam Vizagapatam One Town, near State Bank of India Building[37][38] |
1904 | ||
Rajkot Watson Museum, Jubilee Gardens |
1897 | Alfred Gilbert | |
Udaipur Gulab Bagh[39] |
1890 | Charles Bell Birch |
Malaysia
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Queen Victoria Memorial
Victoria Green, George Town, Penang |
1930 |
Sri Lanka
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Colombo[40] National Museum of Colombo |
1897 | George Edward Wade |
Thailand
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Bangkok British Embassy, Bangkok |
1903 | ||
Chiang Mai Chiang Mai Foreign Cemetery[41] |
1903 |
Yemen
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Aden Prince of Wales Crescent, Tawahi |
1905 | S.C Tweed |
Africa
Egypt
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Port Said, Egypt
Sultan Hussein Quay |
1904 – no longer exists, for reasons unknown |
Ghana
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Cape Coast | 1925 | Jacob Wilson Sey |
Kenya
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Nairobi, Kenya | 1906 – destroyed by vandals February 2015 | Unknown |
Mauritius
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor |
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Port Louis | 1897 |
South Africa
Image | Location | Date | Sculptor | |
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Port Elizabeth[42][43] Market Square |
1903 | E. Roscoe Mullins | ||
Cape Town[44][43] Cape Town Parliament |
1903 | E. Roscoe Mullins | ||
Cape Town
Sea Point |
1897 | |||
Durban Francis Farewell Square |
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Kimberley |
1906 | Mario Raggi | ||
King William's Town Maclean Square |
1899 | |||
Pietermaritzburg Langalibalele Street |
1887 | E. Roscoe Mullins |
Notes
- Blown up by separatist radicals in 1963; head and body stored at Musée de la civilisation. Originally installed in Toronto 1871–74.[20]
References
- Powell, Jennifer (2011), "The Dissemination of Commemorative Statues of Queen Victoria", in Curtis, Penelope; Wilson, Keith (eds.), Modern British Sculpture, London: Royal Academy of Arts, pp. 282–288
- Steggles, Mary (2000). Statues of the Raj. Putney, England: BACSA. pp. Entire book covers the statues sent to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with details of their commission. ISBN 978-0907799740.
- Steggles, Mary; Barnes, Richard (2011). British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories. Norfolk, UK: Frontier Publications. pp. The book has essays and details of all of the statues of Queen Victoria commissioned along with images. ISBN 978 1 872914411.
- "Queen's Cross, Queen Victoria Statue, Aberdeen". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- "77a Princes Street, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
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- Historic England. "Woolwich Town Hall (1289668)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- "Others". Buildings of Wrexham. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
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Further reading
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003). Public Sculpture of the City of London. Public Sculpture of Britain. 7. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Wiltshire, Trea (2012). A Stroll Through Colonial Hong Kong. FormAsia Books Ltd. ISBN 978-988-15562-3-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
External links
Media related to Statues of Victoria of the United Kingdom at Wikimedia Commons