Erection date: 14/3/2015
{On the front of the plinth:}
Mahatma Gandhi
{On the base of the statue, at the left:}
Jackson
Morris Singer Foundry
SW1, Parliament Square
Locating this statue so close to the British Parliament is controversial given that Gandhi led the successful campaign for India to be free of British colonial rule.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gandhi statue - Parliament Square
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Kar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gandhi statue - Parliament Square
Sculptor. Philip Henry Christopher Jackson was born Inverness. Studio in Midh...
Founded by John Webb Singer as the Frome Art Metal Works. Cast many of the be...
In his right hand he holds an induction coil. The marble original of this statue was made in 1874 and is held by the Royal Institute. Thi...
{Front of plinth:} St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine 980-1015, erected by Ukrainians in Great Britain in 1988 to celebrate the establishme...
The sculpture is Bowtell’s 'My Children' (or 'Two Pupils'). The plinth is by Kindersley. The boy, wearing the school’s traditional unifo...
Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 31 October 1988, as a Spitfire flew over.
The erection of the statue was organised by the Irving Memorial Committee on land donated by the City of Westminster.  The Irving Society...
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