Statue Of Queen Victoria is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Statue.
Statue Of Queen Victoria
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-minaret-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1992
- Type
- Statue
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HOVE
TQ2904SW GRAND AVENUE 579-1/22/53 (South side) Statue of Queen Victoria
GV II
Statue of Queen Victoria. 1897-1901. Sculptor Thomas Brock. Probably bronze, and grey marble. Plan: metal statue on marble plinth, low surround with 4 small marble bollards. Life-size standing statue of Queen Victoria wearing royal regalia and facing south; dado of marble plinth embellished with 4 low relief bronze panels with allegorical figures representing Commerce, Education, Science and Art,and Empire, captioned above in incized lettering. An inscription on the south front reads "Erected by the Inhabitants of Hove to Commemmorate the 60th Anniversary of the Accession of Queen Victoria June 20 AD 1897". Of the 4 bollards, the SE one is missing. Commissioned to commemmorate the Queen's Jubilee in 1897, the statue was not completed until the year of her death. (Middleton J: Hove in Old Picture Postcards: 1983-).
Listing NGR: TQ2904004384
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