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Parliament Square statues

Twelve statesmen on one square: Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, Lincoln, and Millicent Fawcett, the first woman.

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Photo by Matt Brown from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Power & Politics and Monuments & Ruins.

The square was laid out in 1868 and has been filling with bronze since. Churchill, by Ivor Roberts-Jones in 1973, stands hunched at the north-east corner facing the Commons. Lincoln is a copy of the Saint-Gaudens in Chicago. Mandela came in 2007, Gandhi in 2015, and in 2018 Gillian Wearing's Millicent Fawcett, holding a banner that reads Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, the first woman here and the first statue in the square by a woman.

The rest are older and easy to walk past: six British prime ministers - Canning, Peel, Derby, Palmerston, Disraeli and Lloyd George - and Jan Smuts, twice prime minister of South Africa, done by Jacob Epstein in 1956 and striding forward with his hands behind his back.

Where
Parliament Square, SW1P 3JX
Nearest station
Westminster · 2 min walk

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