Items - Cast in Stone

Statue of Charles Gordon, Gordon's School

The statue of Gordon was repatriated from Khartoum, Sudan after independence and was reinstalled in its present position at Gordon's School in 1959.

Statue of Charles Gordon, Gravesend

Statue of Charles Gordon, Westminster

Statue of Charles Henry Wilson, Hull

Statue of Charles Henry Wilson, Warter

Statue of Charles II, Chelsea

Statue of Charles II, Gloucester

Statue of Charles II, Soho

Statue of Charles James Fox, Bloomsbury Square

Statue of Charles Kingsley

Statue of Charles Mangin, Paris

Statue of Charles Napier, Trafalgar Square

Statue of Charles Palmer

Statue of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart

Statue of Charles Wesley, Bristol

Statue of Christopher Codrington

Statue of Christopher Columbus, Liverpool

Statue of Christopher Columbus, London

Statue of Clement Attlee

Statue of Colin Campbell, Glasgow

Statue of Colin Campbell, Westminster

Statue of David Livingstone, Blantyre

Statue of David Livingstone, Edinburgh

Statue of David Livingstone, Glasgow

Livingstone is shown holding a bible in his left hand and his hat in his right hand. By his left foot lies a sextant, an astrolabe and an ankle shackle.

Statue of David Livingstone, Royal Geographical Society

Statue of Douglas Haig, Clifton College

Statue of Edmund Burke

Statue of Edward Colston

The almost hunched, contemplative figure represents Colston in his maturity. For a likeness, the sculptor may have turned to Jonathan Richardson’s portrait of 1702, a version of which hangs in the Council House. The reclining figure by Rysbrack on Colston’s tomb in All Saints, Corn Street, may also have been useful. The monument shows a younger, more vigorous man, although Rysbrack may well have used the same source. Cassidy’s statue depicts Colston in early eighteenth century clothes […] Three of the side reliefs show apocryphal or symbolic scenes from Colston’s life. One shows Colston distributing alms in the street; another depicts mythical seahorses and tritons pulling an anchor; the third depicts the legend […] of a dolphin plugging a leak in one of Colston’s ships. […] It was this ‘incident’ that is said to have caused Colston to adopt the dolphin as his emblem. Stylised dolphins, with writhing tails and looking more like animated catfish, are at each corner of the pedestal. The fourth panel bears an inscription and the sculptor’s name. (Merritt & Greenacre 2011: 41)

Statue of Edward Harland

Statue of Edward Stanley, Parliament Square

Statue of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, Manchester

Statue of Emperor Constantine, York

A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Constantine, situated in front of the York Minster, depicted seated on a throne in a regal posture, holding a sword. Statues of Roman emperors were deliberately iconic; they were part of a carefully cultivated image that was circulated throughout the empire. The head of Constantine that is available held at the York Museum possibly represents an early, unsettled stage of his iconography. Later, more developed statues, for instance that of the statue outside the Capitoline Museums, show him with distinctive bulging eyes, and also with some features adopted by emperors of previous dynasties, for example, the curly hair. Generations of artists have copied various parts of the Colossus of Constantine, now part of the Capitoline Museums. However, Jackson's seated statue deviates from most depictions of Roman Emperors - as men of action, the emperors were generally depicted in active, standing poses. A plaque installed near the statue reads: "CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 274-337 Near this place, Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to the faith, established the religious foundations of Western Christendom."

Statue of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands

Statue of Father Thames

Statue of Fenner Brockway

Statue of Flora MacDonald, Inverness

Statue of Florence Nightingale

Statue of Francis Drake, Plymouth

Statue of Francis Drake, Tavistock

Statue of Francis Russell 5th Duke of Bedford

Statue of Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford

Statue of Frederick Cavendish

Statue of Frederick Courteney Selous, Natural History Museum

Statue of Frederick Douglass, Belfast

Statue of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood

Accompanied by two additional bronze figures: On the left side of the statue, the first figure depicts a turbanned Indian warrior sitting on a tiger. On the right side of the statue, a second figure depicts a Canadian hunter sitting on a moose. Both figures symbolise the Marquess' career as a colonial administator in India and Canada.

Statue of Frederick James Tollemache

Statue of Galbraith Lowry Cole

Statue of George Bentinck, Cavendish Square

Statue of George Canning