London Past Papers Statuary

Question 1

Name the sculptor of the statue of
Queen Victoria outside the East
front of Kensington Palace.

Question 2

Name the man whose four metre
high statue is in the courtyard of
the British Library.

Question 3

Name the woman whose statue
was unveiled in Parliament
Square in 2018.

Question 4

What is the current work on the
Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar
Square?

Question 5

There is a statue to which Roman
Emperor near Tower Hill
underground station?

Question 6

Where is there a bronze statue of
Amy Winehouse?

Question 7

In the Albert Memorial what is
Prince Albert holding?

Question 8

What is currently displayed on the
fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square?

Question 9

In which London square would you find a statue of Mahatma Ghandi?

Question 10

In which square in Bloomsbury is
there a statue of Mahatma
Gandhi?

Question 11

The statue of Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein stands
outside which government
building?

Question 12

Trafalgar Square has four plinths,
three of which have permanent
statues. Name TWO of them.

Answer 12

(i)
(ii)

Question 13

Why is there a statue of
Mahatma Gandhi in Tavistock
Square?

Question 14

Whose statue near St Martin in
the Fields contains the phrase
“Patriotism is not enough”?

Question 15

Name the woman whose statue
stands in Waterloo Place.

Question 16

In which year was the permanent stone Cenotaph erected in Whitehall?

Question 17

In which market can be found a statue of Amy Whitehouse?

Question 18

The only statue of an actress in London depicts Sarah Siddons. Where does it stand?

Question 19

Name TWO foreign heads of state whose statues stand in Parliament Square.

Answer 19

a)
b)

Question 20

In November 2014 a new memorial was unveiled on the Embankment side of the Ministry of Defence to commemorate those who served in which conflict?

Question 21

Whose seated statue stands outside Chelsea Old Church?

Question 22

Where will you find the Royal
Artillery Memorial, designed by
Charles Jagger and Lionel
Pearson?

Question 23

The first statue in the UK to a
named black woman was unveiled
in June 2016 by St Thomas’s
Hospital. What is her name?

Question 24

Name the war memorial in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens.

Question 25

Name the character from Michael
Bond’s children’s books whose
statue can be found under the
clock of Platform One at a major
London station.

Question 26

Where can you find George
Frederick Watts’ statue Physical
Energy?

Question 27

Name the first Chief Scout whose
statue is outside 65 Queen’s Gate.

Question 28

Whose statue, designed by George Frampton in 1920, stands in St Martin’s Place?

Question 29

Who is commemorated by the memorial, unveiled in Green Park in 2012, and designed by architect Liam O’Connor and sculptor Philip Jackson?

Question 30

A statue of which Indian lawyer
and ‘father of his country’ can be
found in Tavistock Square?

Question 31

Which new statue will be unveiled
in Parliament Square in 2018?

Question 32

In December 2017 Ian Rank-Broadley was chosen to create an important new statue of which famous mother?

Question 33

Where will you find the Elizabeth
Frink statue ‘Shepherd and Sheep’?

Question 34

What is the name of David Shrigley’s sculpture in Trafalgar Square?

Question 35

What is the subject of Richard
Kindersley’s statue at Baynard
House on Queen Victoria Street?

Question 36

Name the sculptor who made the
altar for St Stephens Church,
Walbrook in the 1970s.

Question 37

Name the sculptor of the Queen
Victoria statue outside Kensington
Palace.

Question 38

There is a statue of a king on
horseback outside the Houses of
Parliament. Name the king.

Question 39

Who was present at the unveiling
of his own statue in Parliament
Square in 2007?

Question 40

In which London Square is there
a memorial to the British victims
of the attacks of 11th September
2001?

Question 41

Who does the main statue in
Piccadilly Circus commemorate?

Question 42

In which year was the permanent
stone Cenotaph erected in
Whitehall?

Question 43

Where can you see a statue of
Queen Boudicca in London?

Question 44

What is the subject of the current
fourth plinth sculpture?