Statue of General Gordon, Gordon's School is a Grade II listed building in the Surrey Heath local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2015. Statue.
Statue of General Gordon, Gordon's School
- WRENN ID
- hushed-stronghold-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Surrey Heath
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath MP: Dr Al Pinkerton (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2015
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Statue of General Gordon, Gordon's School, Gordons School, Bagshot Road, West End, Woking, GU24 9PT
- OS grid reference
- SU 944 613
- Coordinates
- 51.34315, -0.64522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The statue of General Gordon, located at Gordon's School, is a Grade II listed structure. It is a second casting from 1902 of a statue originally sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford in 1890. The stone plinth dates from around 1959.
The statue stands thirteen feet high and is made of bronze, depicting General Gordon in the uniform of an Egyptian general, seated on a tasselled saddle on a standing camel. The front of the base is inscribed with the name 'GORDON' and features a decoration of olive branches. The rectangular stone plinth is designed in a classical style, with recessed corner piers, a moulded cornice, and a base. One side of the plinth bears an inscription that reads, 'THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED AT KHARTOUM/ IN 1904 AND PRESENTED TO/ THE SCHOOL IN 1959.' Additionally, an inscription on the base of the plinth notes that it was presented in memory of Major General Sir Hubert J Huddleston, who served in the Sudan for 23 years.
Local climate
Statue of General Gordon, Gordon's School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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