List of monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

{{Short description|none}} The following is a list in chronological order of '''monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington''' (1769–1852), a leading British political and military figure of the 19th century, particularly noted for his defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815:

==List of monuments== [[File:Duke of Wellington statue, Glasgow - traffic cone hat and gull, 2025.jpg|thumb|upright|Wellington statue with traffic cone hat in Glasgow, Scotland]] * A large stone monument built upon the Iron Age hill fort of Pen Dinas overlooking Cardigan Bay and the Welsh town of Aberystwyth. The monument takes the form of an eighteen metre high upended cannon. It is thought that the column was intended to carry at statue at the top, which was never installed. (1850s)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58765453 | title=Aberystwyth residents help archaeologists excavate Pen Dinas hillfort | work=BBC News | date=October 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/32637/ | title=English – Coflein }}</ref> * A monumental column and statue in his birthplace in Trim, County Meath, Ireland (1817)<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://atriptoireland.com/2013/11/11/the-wellington-monument-a-controversial-statue-in-a-small-irish-town/|title = The Wellington Monument: A Controversial Statue in a Small Irish Town|date = November 11, 2013|website = A Trip to Ireland|publisher = RICH RENNICKS}}</ref>

* The Rotunda, Woolwich Common, London, designed by John Nash (1814, re-erected 1819). Originally constructed as a temporary pavilion for the grand fête celebrating Wellington's victories in 1814, the structure was dismantled and permanently re-erected on Woolwich Common to serve as the Royal Artillery Museum. Nash employed pioneering structural techniques including laminated timber construction for the building's innovative roof design. The Rotunda remained in use as a museum until 1999 and is now a Grade II* listed building.<ref>{{cite report|url=https://www.waterlooassociation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Woolwich-Rotunda-Research-Report-FIN-small-pdf.pdf|title=The Rotunda (former Royal Artillery Museum), Woolwich Common, London Borough of Greenwich: History, Structure and Landscape|author1=Emily Cole|author2=Susan Skedd|author3=Jonathan Clarke|author4=Sarah Newsome|publisher=Historic England|id=251-2020|date=2020}}</ref>

* Wellington Monument, London, on Park Lane, London; a colossal bronze statue of Achilles by Richard Westmacott (1822)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/westmacottr/2.html |title=Achilles (The Wellington Monument) |work=The Victorian Web |date=2006-08-21 |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> * Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner, London, built to a design by Decimus Burton (1825–1827)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/wellington-arch/ |title=Wellington Arch |work=English Heritage |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, City of London, by Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1844)<ref name=LR>{{cite web|title=Statue: Duke of Wellington statue - EC2|url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/duke-of-wellington-statue-ec2|publisher=LondonRemembers.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> This equestrian statue has "Erected June 16, 1844" inscribed into its plinth. * Wellington Monument, Old Woodhall Road,  Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, a column with bust on top (1844)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage-explorer.co.uk/web/he/searchdetail.aspx?id=8972&crit=monument |title=Wellington Monument, Old Woodhall Road, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |work=Heritage Explorer |publisher=English Heritage |date=2007 |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow, by Carlo Marochetti (1844).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fineartfacts.com/cgi-bin/public_view_object.pl?Type=ViewRecord&PieceNumber=2084 |title=Marochetti Collection, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |work=FineArtFacts |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> The Royal Exchange Square, Queen Street, in Glasgow, Scotland, has a statue of Wellington astride a horse, outside the Gallery of Modern Art. The statue does feature the bicorne cocked hat associated with him, but it is in his hand, not on his head. The statue is often "defaced" by the placing of a traffic cone on Wellington's head.<ref>{{cite news |author=|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/863423.stm |title=Hat's not on, says lord provost |work=BBC News |date=2 August 2000 |access-date=23 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Herald 2005">{{cite news |author=|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12399578.historian-unamused-by-citys-joke-about-the-duke/ |title=Historian unamused by city's joke about the duke |work=The Herald |date=25 January 2005 |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref> [[File:Wellington Statue, Aldershot front.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Wellington astride Copenhagen his charger statue on Round Hill, Aldershot.]] * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot, originally at Hyde Park Corner, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1846).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/wyatt/2.html |title=The Duke of Wellington by Matthew Cotes Wyatt |work=The Victorian Web |date=2012 |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> In 1838 a proposal to build a statue of Wellington resulted in the building of a giant statue of him on his horse Copenhagen, placed above the Wellington Arch at Constitution Hill in London directly outside Apsley House, his former London home. Completed in 1846, the enormous scale of the 40 ton, {{convert|30|ft|m|0}} high monument resulted in its removal in 1883, and the following year it was transported to Aldershot where it still stands near the Royal Garrison Church. * A statue of Wellington by the sculptor Thomas Milnes at Woolwich Arsenal, which now stands in Wellington Park (1848)<ref>{{Cite web|title = Duke of Wellington, by Thomas Milnes|url = https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/milnes/3.html|website = www.victorianweb.org|access-date = 2015-09-13}}</ref> [[File:Duke of Wellington statue, Register House - geograph.org.uk - 1353673.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Wellington statue, in the East End of Edinburgh, Scotland]] * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, East End of Princes Street, Edinburgh, by Sir John Steell (1848–52)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princes-street.com/interest/statue-wellington.html |title=THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON |work=Princes Street .com |publisher=Edinburgh Sites |access-date=2014-10-03 }}</ref> * Wellington Monument, Somerset, in the Blackdown Hills (commenced 1817, completed in 1854).<ref name=nhle>{{NHLE|desc=Wellington Monument|num=1060281|access-date=16 March 2014}}</ref> This monument overlooks the town of Wellington, Somerset, from which Wellington's title was taken. * A statue of Wellington by the sculptor Carlo Marochetti in Leeds, England, which now stands in Woodhouse Moor park (1855).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/marochetti/13.html |title=The Duke of Wellington by Baron Marochetti. |work=Victorian Web |date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> His boots have been painted red, presumably by local students. * A statue in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, by Matthew Noble (1855/6)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptplaces/manchpiccadilly.htm |title=Statues in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester |publisher=Bob Speel |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> thumb|Wellington Monument in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester * A monument in the Great Hall of the Guildhall, London, by John Bell (1856)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/1266/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506165144/http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/1266/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-05-06 |title=Monument to the Duke of Wellington, Great Hall, Guildhall|work=National Recording Project |publisher=Public Monuments and Sculpture Association |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * Duke of Wellington Statue, The Bulwark, Brecon, Wales, by John Evan Thomas (1858)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brecontown.co.uk/cmsms/index.php?page=location-history |title=The military link continues... |work=Where We Are & Local History Brecon |publisher=Brecon Town Council |access-date=2014-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006135945/http://www.brecontown.co.uk/cmsms/index.php?page=location-history |archive-date=2014-10-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> thumb|right|150px|Engraving of Dublin's Wellington Testimonial including the never completed equestrian statue * Wellington Monument, Dublin, by Robert Smirke (commenced 1817, completed 1861). This memorial in Phoenix Park is the tallest stone obelisk in Europe<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archiseek.com/2010/1861-wellington-monument-phoenix-park-dublin/#.VC_O4mddU8o |title=1861 – Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park, Dublin |work=Buildings of Ireland |publisher=Archiseek |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * Duke of Wellington Commemorative Column, outside Stratfield Saye House, the Duke's Hampshire residence, a column with statue on top, by Carlo Marochetti (1863)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/7753db85.html |title=Duke of Wellington Commemorative Column |work=Art & Architecture |publisher=The Courtauld Institute |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * Wellington's Column in Liverpool by Mr George and Andrew Lawson (1865)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk/wellingtons-wait/ |title=WELLINGTON'S WAIT |last=Horton |first=Steven |work=Liverpool Hidden History |date=2014-05-25 |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * Wellington Monument, Baslow, Derbyshire. A stone cross (1866)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/baslow.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040207135652/http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/baslow.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 7, 2004 |title=Baslow |work=Discovering Derbyshire and the Peak District |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Hyde Park Corner, London, by Joseph Boehm (1888)<ref>[https://www.victorianlondon.org/buildings/wellington.htm The Green Park Arch, Wellington Place. ] Victorian London, Originally published in The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896 . Accessed September 2014</ref> * A monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he is buried. By Alfred Stevens (completed 1912)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.finearts360.com/index.php/alfred-stevens-and-the-wellington-memorial-in-st-pauls-cathedral-london-261/ |title=Alfred Stevens and the Wellington Memorial in St Pauls Cathedral London |last=Welford |first=John |work=Artists and Artwork |publisher=Fine Arts 360 |date=2013-01-15 |access-date=2014-10-04 }}</ref> * A [https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HWJJXJ/bust-of-arthur-wellesley-1st-duke-of-wellington-in-miragaia-civil-HWJJXJ.jpg bust in Porto] where he led Anglo-Portuguese troops against French troops in the 1809 in the Second Battle of Porto, Portugal * The Duke's horse, Copenhagen, has a monument over his grave at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire * Stone statue of the Duke leaning against Copenhagen in Lower Newmarket Street, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. * A bust in Alameda Gardens, Gibraltar.

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