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© Mr G.W. Garthwaite LRPS
IoE Number:
209087
Location:
STATUE OF CHARLES I,
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr G.W. Garthwaite LRPS
Date Photographed:
13 June 2007
Date listed:
09 January 1970
Date of last amendment:
09 January 1970
Grade
I
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TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS, SW1
83/35
9,1.70 0 Statue of Charles I
G.V. I
Equestrian statue. Cast 1633, by Hubert Le Sueur, the carved pedestal by
Joshua Marshall provided when the statue was erected here (on the site of
Eleanor Cross) in 1674-75. Bronze statue and carved Portland stone
pedestal. The King is shown in half-armour. This highly influential
equestrian statue, the first of its kind in England, was originally
commissioned in 1630 by Charles I's Lord Treasurer Sir Richard Weston for
his house Mortlake Park, Roehampton.
Survey of London; Vols. XVI and XXXVI.
Hubert Le Sueur's Portraits of Charles I in Bronze: Charles Avery in
National Trust Studies 1979.