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A Grade II Listed Statue of Queen Victoria in Bitts Park in Carlisle, Cumbria.
Created in 1902 by Sir Thomas Brock RA. Unpolished light-coloured granite ashlar and bronze. Set on broad granite steps is a moulded and chamfered plinth with square shaft which has bronze panels depicting EMPIRE, EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND ART, COMMERCE (all signed by sculptor); surmounted by standing figure of Victoria in state robes. Inscription on front of plinth gives details of Victoria and her reign; rear inscription records the names of those subscribing to costs of the panels.
This statue is identical to one erected by the same sculptor at Brighton and Hove. Sir Thomas Brock was one of the more prominent late-Victorian sculptors who did a large number of statues of Queen Victoria (pre-eminently the Victoria Memorial, The Mall, London).
33029
A Grade II Listed Statue of Queen Victoria in Bitts Park in Carlisle, Cumbria.
Created in 1902 by Sir Thomas Brock RA. Unpolished light-coloured granite ashlar and bronze. Set on broad granite steps is a moulded and chamfered plinth with square shaft which has bronze panels depicting EMPIRE, EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND ART, COMMERCE (all signed by sculptor); surmounted by standing figure of Victoria in state robes. Inscription on front of plinth gives details of Victoria and her reign; rear inscription records the names of those subscribing to costs of the panels.
This statue is identical to one erected by the same sculptor at Brighton and Hove. Sir Thomas Brock was one of the more prominent late-Victorian sculptors who did a large number of statues of Queen Victoria (pre-eminently the Victoria Memorial, The Mall, London).