Items - Cast in Stone

The statue of Hardinge was originally installed in Kolkata, India, in 1858, but was repatriated to the UK in 1950 after Indian independence.

Equestrian statue of Horatio Kitchener, Medway

The statue of Kitchener was originally erected in Kolkata in 1914. It was then relocated to Khartoum in 1920, before being repatriated to Chatham in 1959 after Sudan had declared its independence from Britain.

Equestrian statue of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

Bronze equestrian statue of the slave-owner, colonial administrator, and military officer Stapleton Cotton, accompanied by inscriptions listing the many military campaigns and colonies Cotton was involved in.

Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow

Statue of Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, Oxford

Statue of Charles Gordon, Aberdeen

Statue of Charles Gordon, Brompton Barracks

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 Mangin, Paris

Statue of Charles Napier, Trafalgar Square

Statue of Christopher Codrington

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 Galbraith Lowry Cole

Statue of George Curzon

Statue of George Robinson

One of three statues of Robinson by Francis Derwent Wood. The other two were installed in Kolkata and Chennai in India.

Statue of Henry Bartle Frere

Statue of Horatio Kitchener, Westminster

Statue of Hubert Lyautey, Paris

Hubert Lyautey se tient debout, le regard fixé au loin. Il est tête nue, en uniforme et avec une longue cape militaire, arborant toutes ses décorations, il tient son épée de la main gauche la pointe vers le bas et son képi dans la main droite.

Statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Paris

Colbert est représenté assis, en vêtements et perruque de cour, en train de consulter le plan de l’hôtel des Invalides.

Statue of John Franklin, Spilsby

Statue of John Franklin, Westminster

Statue of John Lawrence, Derry-Londonderry

One of two statues of Lawrence by Joseph Edgar Boehm. The statue was donated to India for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 and was erected by Lahore High Court. The other statue of Lawrence in London served as a replacement for the one sent to India. After India and Pakistan achieved independence from Britain, the statue of Lawrence was removed from public view by the provincial government in 1950. The statue was then repatriated to Northern Ireland in 1962 and re-erected the following year at Foyle College in Derry-Londonderry, where it still stands in place today (although the site of the school has changed over time).

Statue of John Lawrence, Westminster

Statue of Joseph Gallieni, Paris

Statue of Louis Mountbatten, Westminster

Statue of Richard Bourke

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 Rufus Isaacs, Reading

The statue was originally erected in Delhi, India in 1935, but was repatriated to Reading in 1969 and erected in its present position in 1971.

Statue of Thomas Picton

Removed in July 2020.