Victoria Memorial, London

Victoria Memorial
LocationThe Mall
Coordinates51°30′06.65″N 00°08′26.34″W / 51.5018472°N 0.1406500°W / 51.5018472; -0.1406500
OS grid referenceTQ291797
AreaLondon, SW1
Height25 m[1]
Unveiled16 May 1911
Built1901 (memorial gardens) 1906–24 (monument)[2]
Restoredbronzes – April 2011[3]
SculptorSir Thomas Brock
Architectural style(s)Beaux-Arts[2] / Edwardian Baroque
Governing bodyThe Royal Parks
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameQueen Victoria Memorial
Designated5 February 1970
Reference no.1273864[4]
Victoria Memorial, London is located in Central London
Victoria Memorial, London
The Victoria Monument in central London

The Victoria Memorial is a monument to Queen Victoria, located at the end of The Mall in London by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock. Designed in 1901, it was unveiled on 16 May 1911, though it was not completed until 1924. It was the centrepiece of an ambitious urban planning scheme, which included the creation of the Queen’s Gardens to a design by Sir Aston Webb, and the refacing of Buckingham Palace (which stands behind the memorial) by the same architect.

Like the earlier Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, commemorating Victoria's consort, the Victoria Memorial has an elaborate scheme of iconographic sculpture. The central pylon of the memorial is of Pentelic marble, and individual statues are in Lasa marble and gilt bronze.[5] The memorial weighs 2,300 tonnes (about 2535 short tons)[1] and is 32 m (104 ft) in diameter.[6] In 1970 it was listed at Grade I.[4]

  1. ^ a b "The Queen Victoria Memorial". The Royal Parks. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003), London: Westminster, The Buildings of England, vol. 6, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 655–6
  3. ^ "St James's Park and the Green Park Management Plan 2008–2018" (PDF). The Royal Parks. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b Historic England. "Queen Victoria Memorial (Grade I) (1273864)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference W-J 125 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Salaman, Malcolm C. (June 1911). "Sir Thomas Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial". The Studio. 53: 29–40.

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