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Statue of the Earl Kitchener

City of Westminster, GB

Statue of the Earl Kitchener

The statue of Earl Kitchener is an outdoor bronze statue by John Tweed depicting Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, installed in 1926 and located on the south side of Horse Guards Parade in London, England. The sculpture stands on a Portland stone plinth. It became a Grade II listed building in

1970. Calls for a national memorial to Kitchener began immediately after his death, but there were considerable delays while a suitable site was located, with suggestions including Grosvenor Gardens, or St Paul's Cathedral, or the Royal Exchange, before the Office of Works and King George V approved a site on the south side of Horse Guards Parade, next to the north wall of the Garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street. The project was entrusted to sculptor John Tweed and architect Reginald Blomfield, but Blomfield withdrew when his proposal for a tall plinth, raising the statue above the wall, was rejected by the Prime Minister Lloyd George on grounds of cost. Tweed's larger than life size bronze statue was cast by A. B. Burton at his Thames Ditton Foundry. It portrays Kitchener in his army uniform, with bare head, standing with left foot advanced, and hands clasped. The statue contrasts with...

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