Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (Glasgow)
The Duke of Wellington statue is a memorial in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The memorial was created in 1844 in memory of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Carlo Marochetti , who also designed the Queen Victoria Statue and Prince Albert Statue in George Square . Since the mid-1980s at the latest, it has been customary to see the head of the statue covered by a traffic cone . Although security services regularly remove the headgear, strangers keep putting it back on. This already results in damage to the statue. The cost of removing the cone is estimated at a hundred pounds. Since the city no longer wanted to carry the sum of around ten thousand pounds a year for a hundred distances, it was decided in the course of a restoration in 2013 to increase the base to double the height to make the decoration more difficult. The plans sparked protests, which is why they were ultimately not implemented.
description
The Wellington Memorial stands on Royal Exchange Square in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in central Glasgow. The statue rests on an elongated, gray stone postament . Its side is adorned with ornamented bronze panels and bronze bands. The bronze statue shows Wellington in uniform sitting on a horse.
See also
- Duke of Wellington statue , list
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ BBC News: Council in road cone statue plea , February 16, 2005.
- ↑ STV: Glasgow's iconic 'cone head' statue could be raised to stop pranksters , November 11, 2013.
- ↑ BBC News: Doubt remains over Glasgow Wellington 'cone hat' statue , November 12, 2013.
Web links
- Entry on the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '36.4 " N , 4 ° 15' 7.2" W.