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This heroic-sized statue shows Queen Victoria in state robes with a crown and holding a sceptre in her right hand. The statue is set on a square, two-tier bronze plinth with pennant decoration on the upper tier. The sculptor Francis Williamson was well patronised by Queen Victoria and produced many statues of her. This statue is based on his marble statue of Victoria sculpted in 1887 at the time of her Golden Jubilee. Williamson then executed many bronze replicas including statues in Wakefield, Hastings, Paisley, Londonderry, Rangoon in Burma, Perth in Australia, and Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand. The statue was first erected in the Bullring in the centre of Wakefield. In 1950 it was moved to Denby Dale Road at the entrance to Clarence Park.
Title
Queen Victoria (1819–1901)
Date
1904
Medium
bronze & polished pink granite
Accession number
WF1_NH_S002
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
Statue
Owner
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Custodian
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
15th February 1905
Listing date
01/02/79
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
signed on the lower tier of the right-hand side elevation: A. B. BURTON / FOUNDER / THAMES DITTON.
Inscription description
central section of the front face: VICTORIA REG ET IMP / 1837-1901; at a lower level: THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF WAKEFIELD / AS A MEMORIAL TO THEIR GREAT AND GOOD QUEEN / 1904; left-hand side elevation: THIS MONUMENT WAS REMOVED / FROM THE BULL RING / TO THIS SITE IN JULY 1950 / CLARENCE PARK / AND REINSTATED IN 1985.