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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Statue of Queen Victoria at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26482744

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)