CHARLES G GORDON

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Reference WMO/130218

Address:

Victoria Embankment Gardens

Victoria Embankment

Westminster

London

SW1

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Figure sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
About the memorial: Bronze statue of Gordon in the undress uniform of a field officer, standing in an attitude of meditation, his left foot on a broken mortar. His left arm is crossed over the waist, and the hand, holding a Bible, supports the elbow of the right arm. It stands on a plinth with two bronze relief plates on the left and right sides, showing the four virtues (left) FORTITVDE, FAITH, and (right) CHARITY, JVSTICE respectively. Fortitude has a shield with the text RIGHT FEARS NO MIGHT. Between the foliated frieze at the top of the plinth are banderols with the names SOUDAN KHARTOUM - GRAVESEND EQUATOR - CRIMEA 1855 CHINA 1864 - QUINSAN SOOCHOW (Statue) HAMO THORNYCROFT ARA (plinth) HAMO THORNYCROFT RA SC (relief right) HAMO THORNYCROFT 18— Unveiled 16 October 1888 in Trafalgar Square. The pedestal was inspired by that of Le Sueur's Charles 1 near that location. Removed in 1943 for the temporary display of a Lancaster bomber and re-erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens in 1953.
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Charles G Gordon CB Major Gen Royal Engineers Killed at Khartoum XXVI January MDCCCLXXXV

Charles G Gordon CB

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