List of statues of Queen Victoria

This is a list of statues of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom


Scotland

Image Location Date Sculptor
Aberdeen[1]

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[2]

Royal Scottish Academy

 1837 Sir John Steell
Leith[3]

Foot of Leith Walk

1907 John Stephenson Rhind
Glasgow[4]

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

 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
Newcastle

Royal Victoria Infirmary

 1906 Sir George Frampton
Newcastle

St Nicholas Square

 1901 Sir Alfred Gilbert
South Shields

Outside South Shields Town Hall

 1913 Sir George Frampton
Tynemouth

Front Street

 1902 Alfred Turner

North West England

Image Location Date Sculptor
Blackburn

Blackburn Cathedral

 1905 Sir Bertram Mackennal
Carlisle
Bitts Park		 1902
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
Derby Square

 1906 C. J. Allen
Manchester

Piccadilly Gardens

 1901 Edward Onslow Ford
Statue of Queen Victoria
St Helens

Victoria Square

 1905 Sir George Frampton
Salford

Peel Park

 1857
Southport

Neville Street

 Sir George Frampton

Yorkshire and the Humber

Image Location Date Sculptor
Bradford

Morley Street / Little Horton Lane

 1904 Alfred Drury
Harrogate

Victoria Gardens, Station Square

 1887
Kingston upon Hull

Pearson Park
Kingston upon Hull

Queen Victoria Square

 1903 J.S. Gibson
Leeds

Woodhouse Moor Park (Originally outside Town Hall)

 Sir George Frampton
Scarborough

Borough Gardens
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)

1901 Sir Thomas Brock

West Midlands England

Image Location Date Sculptor
Birmingham

Victoria Square

 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
Derby

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby

 1906 CB Birch
Nottingham

Memorial Gardens, Victoria Embankment

 1905 Albert Toft

East Anglia

Image Location Date Sculptor
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
Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Abbey Grounds

1887
Brighton, Sussex

Victoria Gardens

 1897
Canterbury, Kent

Canterbury Cathedral
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

Victoria Park

 1902–3
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Guildhall Square

 1903 Alfred Drury
Reading, Berkshire

Friar Street

 1887 George Blackall Simonds
Southend-On-Sea, Essex

Clifftown Terrace

 1897
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor Castle

 1887 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
(Victoria and Albert in Saxon dress)[5]

Windsor, Berkshire
Frogmore Mausoleum

 1867 William Theed
Winchester, Hampshire

Winchester Castle Great Hall

 1887 Sir Alfred Gilbert

Greater London

Image Location Date Sculptor
Croydon

Town Hall, Katherine Street

 1903 Francis John Williamson
London

Royal Exchange

 1891–6 William Hamo Thornycroft[6]
London

Imperial College

 1888
London

Kensington Gardens

 1893 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
London

Blackfriars Bridge

 1893 and 1896 Charles Bell Birch
London

Carlton House Terrace

 c. 1898–1902 Sir Thomas Brock
London

Woolwich Town Hall

 1906 (erected) Pomeroy, Frederick WilliamFrederick William Pomeroy[7]
Victoria Memorial

London
The Mall

 1911 Sir Thomas Brock
London

Victoria Square

 2007 Catherine Laugel

South West England

Image Location Date Sculptor
Barnstaple
Burleston

Athelhampton House Gardens

Queen Victoria

Bristol
College Green

 1888 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Exeter

Little Queen Street

 1848
Weymouth

Esplanade, outside St John's Church

 1902

Wales

Image Location Date Sculptor
Wrexham

Bellevue Park

 1904 Henry Price[8]
Llandudno

Monument and Fountain, Happy Valley Park

1887

Northern Ireland

Image Location Date Sculptor
Belfast

City Hall

 1903 Sir Thomas Brock
Londonderry

Guildhall

Europe (other)

France

Image Location Date Sculptor
Nice[9]
Quartier Cimiez		 1912 Louis Maubert

Gibraltar

Image Location Date Sculptor
Governor's Parade 1910 Unknown

Jersey

Image Location Date Sculptor
Jersey
Victoria Park		 1887 Georges Wallet

Malta

Image Location Date Sculptor
Valletta[10][11]

Republic Square

 1891 Giuseppe Valenti

North America

Canada

Image Location Date Sculptor

Hamilton
Gore Park

 1908

Kitchener, Ontario
Victoria Park

 1911
Victoria Memorial

Montreal
Victoria Square

 1872 Marshall Wood

Montreal[12]
Royal Victoria College, McGill University

 1899 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

Ottawa
Parliament Hill

 1901 Louis-Philippe Hébert

Ottawa
Library of Parliament

 1871 Marshall Wood

Quebec City
Victoria Square (blown up by separatist radicals in 1963)

 1897

Toronto
Queen's Park

 1903 Mario Raggi

Victoria
British Columbia Parliament Buildings

 1914 Allen Bruce Joy

Winnipeg
Legislative Buildings

 1904

Caribbean

Bahamas

Image Location Date Sculptor

Nassau

 1905 John Adams-Acton

Belize

Image Location Date Sculptor

Orange Walk Town

Guyana

Image Location Date Sculptor
(Queen Victoria Monument)[13]

Georgetown
High Court

 1894 H. R. Hope Porter

Jamaica

Image Location Date Sculptor

Kingston

 1897 Emanuel Edward Geflowski

Oceania

Australia

Image Location Date Sculptor
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)[14]

Melbourne
Queen Victoria Gardens

 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
Auckland

Albert Park

 1899[15] Francis John Williamson[16]
Christchurch[17]

Victoria Square

 1903[18] Francis John Williamson[19]
Dunedin[20]

Queens Gardens

 1905[21] Herbert Hampton[20]
Wellington

Cambridge Terrace / Kent Terrace

 1905[22] Alfred Drury[22] (copy of his Portsmouth, England statue)

Asia

Hong Kong

Image Location Date Sculptor
Hong Kong
Victoria Park		 1896 Mario Raggi[23]

India

Image Location Date Sculptor
Statue of Queen Victoria, Bangalore[24][25]

Cubbon Park

 1906 Thomas Brock
Kolkata[26]

Victoria Memorial

 1921 Thomas Brock
Kolkata[27]

Victoria Memorial

 1901 George Frampton
Kolkata

Indian Museum

 1875 Marshall Wood
Mathura

Government Museum
Chennai

Southern side of the Madras University[28]

 1887
Vizagapatam

Vizagapatam Old Town, near State Bank of India Building[29][30]

 1904

Malaysia

Image Location Date Sculptor
Penang
Victoria Green		 1930

Sri Lanka

Image Location Date Sculptor
Colombo[31]
National Museum of Colombo		 1897 George Edward Wade

Thailand

Image Location Date Sculptor
Bangkok

British Embassy, Bangkok

 1903

Yemen

Image Location Date Sculptor
Aden
Prince of Wales Crescent, Tawahi		 1905 S.C Tweed

Africa

Egypt

Image Location Date Sculptor
Port Said, Egypt

Sultan Hussein Quay

1904 – no longer exists, for reasons unknown

Kenya

Image Location Date Sculptor
Nairobi, Kenya 1906 – destroyed by vandals February 2015 Unknown

South Africa

Image Location Date Sculptor
Port Elizabeth[32][33]

Market Square

 1903 E. Roscoe Mullins
Cape Town[34][35]

Cape Town Parliament

 1903 E. Roscoe Mullins
Durban
Francis Farewell Square
Kimberley
1906 Mario Raggi
King William's Town
Maclean Square		 1899
Pietermaritzburg
Langalibalele Street		 1887 E. Roscoe Mullins

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Queen's Cross, Queen Victoria Statue, Aberdeen". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "77a Princes Street, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Leith Walk, Queen Victoria Statue, Edinburgh". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Monument to Queen Victoria", National Recording Project (Public Monuments & Sculpture Association), retrieved 23 February 2014
  5. ↑ Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by William Theed at the Royal Collection.
  6. ↑ Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 327
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Woolwich Town Hall (1289668)". National Heritage List for England.
  8. ↑ "Others". Buildings of Wrexham. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  9. ↑ Banerjee, Jacqueline. "A Review of Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera, by Michael Nelson". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  10. ↑ George Cini (March 30, 2011). "Queen gets good scrub in Valletta". Times of Malta. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  11. ↑ Jacqueline Banerjee (March 15, 2010). "Queen Victoria". The Victorian Web. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  12. ↑ Daniel McCabe, Claudio Calligaris (Spring–Summer 2010). "A feast for the eyes". McGill News. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  13. ↑ National Trust Guyana. "Queen Victoria Monument". Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  14. ↑ Sean Goedecke (October 10, 2011). "Queen Victoria Memorial". Weekend Notes. On Topic Media. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ René and Peter van der Krogt. "Queen Victoria". Statues – Hither & Dither. vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Queen Victoria Statue, Albert Park". dayout.co.nz. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Queen Victoria Statue". Christchurch City Council. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  18. ↑ Gavin Mclean. "Queen Victoria statue". New Zealand History online. History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  19. ↑ The Blue Quasar (March 22, 2009). "Statue of Queen Victoria – Christchurch". Waymarking.com. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  20. 1 2 Dunn, Michael (2002). New Zealand Sculpture: A History. Auckland: Auckland University Press. pp. 26, 28. ISBN 9781869402778. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  21. ↑ BruceS. "Queen Victoria Statue – Dunedin, New Zealand". Waymarking.com. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  22. 1 2 "Queen Victoria". Wellington Sculptures. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  23. ↑ Wiltshire 2012, p. 15.
  24. ↑ Meera Iyer (February 4, 2013). "Empress of all she surveys". Deccan Herald. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  25. ↑ Niranjan Kaggere. "City’s 'airbrushed' Queen Victoria inspires a thesis". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  26. ↑ "Queen Victoria". The Victorian Web. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  27. ↑ "Frampton's Jubilee Monument for Queen Victoria". The Victorian Web. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  28. ↑ Sampathkumar, S (16 August 2014). "Forlorn statue of Victoria (Queen Empress of India) at Madras University". Sampath Speaking. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  29. ↑ Benjamin, Ravi P (21 July 2012). "Fading into oblivion" (Vizagapatam). The Hindu. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  30. ↑ "Eminent Families of Vizag". Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  31. ↑ Fernando, Kishanie S. (5 February 2012). "Colombo 07 : Cinnamon Garden but no cinnamon tree". Ceylon Today. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  32. ↑ "People from near and far". Cape Town Partnership. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  33. ↑ "Queen Victoria Statue". Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  34. ↑ "Statues and Busts – Queen Victoria in Cape Town". The All at Sea Network. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  35. ↑ "Queen Victoria Statue". Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism. Retrieved February 8, 2013.

Bibliography

  • Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003). Public Sculpture of the City of London. Public Sculpture of Britain 7. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 
  • Wiltshire, Trea (2012). A Stroll Through Colonial Hong Kong. FormAsia Books Ltd. ISBN 978-988-15562-3-3. 

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