Statue

Westminster School - old boys - 1 - Elizabeth I

Photograph by: London Remembers

Westminster School - old boys - 1 - Elizabeth I

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 1861

Inscription

Elizabetha Regina

Site: Westminster School - old boys (5 memorials)

SW1, Broad Sanctuary

From Westminster's Conservation Audit: This Listed grade II monument was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is in a high Victorian Gothic with a main column in a polished red granite surmounted by a lantern cross and a statue of St. George, by J. R. Clayton.

Apparently a 'lantern cross' should be in the shape of a lantern but does not need any attributes of a cross. This lantern, above the capital and below St George, contains 4 statues of English monarchs carved by J. B. Philip which we have numbered, starting at the south and proceeding anti-clockwise.

Waymarking also has an entry for this monument.

Album Online have an early (but undated, unattributed) photo, probably taken when the memorial was first erected in 1861.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Westminster School - old boys - 1 - Elizabeth I

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Queen Elizabeth I

Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeede...

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Westminster School - old boys - 1 - Elizabeth I

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John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of t...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Westminster School - old boys - 1 - Elizabeth I

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Westminster School - old boys - 2 - Edward the Confessor

Edwardus Confessor R

Westminster School - old boys - 3 - Victoria

Victoria Regina

Westminster School - old boys - 4 - Henry III

Henricus III Rex

Westminster School - old boys fallen in Crimean War & Indian Rebellion

The inscription was written by the Rev. T. W. Weare, Under-Master of Westmins...

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