Description

Sir John Steell, modelled 1832 (cast 1883). Bronze statue on corniced, bow-ended ashlar plinth; draped pedestrian figure of Alexander with rearing, unharnessed horse.

Statement of Interest

Part of an 'A' Group with Nos 2-11 Parliament Square, Advocates Library, Signet Library, Parliament Hall, 1 Parliament Square, St Giles High Kirk, Charles II Statue, Lothian Chambers, City Chambers, Alexander and Bucephalus Statue, Queensberry Memorial and Market Cross.

The clay model of the group was exhibited in Edinburgh and in London, where it attracted the attention of Sir Francis Chantrey. The Board of Trustees gave Steell £40 to have the group cut in stone, in order to encourage the use of native stone, and to encourage the work of skilled artisans. Steell visited Rome in 1829, and the influence of both the Castor and Pollux in the Quirinale, and of Thorwaldsen's Alexander frieze in the Palazzo Quirinale can be seen. Steell built the 1st bronze foundry in Scotland in order to cast his statue of the Duke of Wellington in 1840. Alexander and Bucephalus was presented to the city by subscribers in 1884 and moved from St Andrew Square to its present site in 1916.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17570725

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6