Items - Cast in Stone

Statue of Queen Victoria, Windsor

Statue of Queen Victoria, Worcester

Statue of Queen Victoria, York

Statue of Richard Bourke

Statue of Richard Cobden, London

Statue of Richard Cobden, Manchester

Statue of Richard Green

Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquis of Westminster

Statue of Richard Lander, Truro

The site for the monument was donated by Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet (1784-1868) who was Member of Parliament for various Cornish constituencies between 1807 and 1857. Lemon's father, Sir William Lemon (?-1824) is listed in the Legacies of British Slavery database as a mortgage holder for the Belmont estate in St. Vincent.

Statue of Richard Trevithick, Camborne

Statue of Robert Ascroft

Winston Churchill described the funding of the statue of Robert Ascroft in My Early Life: 'They made a subscription of more than £2,000, the bulk collected in very small sums, to set up a statue to him as ‘The Workers’ Friend’. They stipulated – and I thought it characteristic of these Lancashire operatives – that the money was not to go to anything useful; no beds at a hospital, no extensions to a library, no fountain even, just a memorial. They did not want, they said, to give a present to themselves.' (p. 233)

Statue of Robert Aske

Statue of Robert Baden-Powell

Statue of Robert Blake

Statue of Robert Clayton, East of Harleyford Manor

Statue of Robert Clayton, St Thomas' Hospital

Statue of Robert Clayton, West of Harleyford Manor

Statue of Robert Clive, in FCO London

A marble statue of Robert Clive in hybrid Roman imperial outfit, modelled on Augustus Caesar, the greatest of all Roman emperors. Clive wears a cingulum militare, or a belt with hanging leather and metal straps, and sandals, to show that he is a soldier. However, on his upper body, he wears a toga, to show his concurrent civilian stature. A short straight sword is inexplicably tucked upside down under his right arm , while the left hand makes an oratorial gesture, presenting him as a philosopher. A shield with the head of Medusa is propped near his feet; since looking into Medusa's eyes was meant to turn the viewer to stone, Medusa shields were intended to be ritually protective in Roman iconography. This statue is therefore a knowledgeable but highly eclectic mix of Roman iconography, which tries to present Clive as a Roman hero, but in a manner that no Roman statue would ever be made. It was one of four marble statues commissioned by the British East India Company in the 1760s, and represented the rising British obsession with Roman-style statuary.

Statue of Robert Clive, Shrewsbury

A life-size bronze statue of Robert Clive in eighteenth-century military uniform, mounted on a polished granite plinth. He is bare-headed, with a grim and determined expression, looking over the heads of viewers towards the distance. He holds his hat in the left hand, and his right hand is at his waist, exposing a middle-aged masculine belly, indicating a man of experience.

Statue of Robert Clive, Westminster

This large bronze statue depicts Robert Clive in military uniform, atop a massive plinth. In the manner of classical Greek architecture, the undulating structure of the plinth prevents the viewer from focussing and draws attention instead to the principal figure, who looks away into the the distance with a grim expression. The figure wears well-worn boots, indicating battle experience, while the prominent stripes on the sleeves indicate achievement and rank. In one hand, the figure holds a curved Indo-Islamic ceremonial sword or talwar, signalling the conquest of India, while the other hand clutches rolled up papers, possibly underlining the legal title to possessions won by the sword. In front, the plinth merely describes the person depicted as 'Clive', indicating his self-explanatory eminence. Contradicting this, the three other sides of the plinth display narrative friezes in bas-relief, showcasing Clive's military and political achievements in India: at Arcot, Plassey and Allahabad. The Allahabad scene depicts Clive receiving the Grant of Diwani, mistitled as the Grant of Bengal, from the defeated Mughal emperor. In the bas-relief of this scene, based on Benjamin West's 1818 painting , the Mughal emperor fades into the background while Clive and his British companions are carved prominently, to emphasize their centrality to the story.

Statue of Robert Dundas, Edinburgh

Statue of Robert Gascoyne-Salisbury

Statue of Robert Milligan

Statue of Robert Peel, Barnet

Statue of Robert Peel, Birmingham

Statue of Robert Peel, Bradford

Statue of Robert Peel, Bury

Statue of Robert Peel, Glasgow

Statue of Robert Peel, Leeds

Statue of Robert Peel, Manchester

Bronze statue of Peel on a granite plinth, accompanied by two bronze female allegorical figures symbolising Manchester and Arts and Sciences respectively.