Memorial details

Memorial type
Sculptured / Cast group
District
City Of London
Town
City of London
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
Waterloo Campaign (1815)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
11736

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Current location

St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Churchyard
City of London
City Of London
Greater London
EC4M 8AD
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 32035 81148
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
In the North Transept, Middlesex Chapel, a large marble group on a plinth. PORTRAIT BUST OF PICTON STANDS ON PLINTH WITH ALLEGORICAL FIGURES OF IMMORTALITY, MILITARY VOCTORY AND AND VICTORY ACCOMPANIED BY A LION TO THE SIDES On the left, a naked male angel with an eternal flame on his head rests his arm on the shoulder of a figure represented as a roman military general, with plumed helmet, a spear in his left hand, a shield behind, and extending his right hand to receive a laurel wreath from the figure on the right. The figure on the right is represented as a female angel striding forward and holding a palm in her right hand. Between the figures is a lion, his head turned upwards and backwards, and, behind, a broad, circular pedestal with a frieze carved with military medals and continuous ribbons, surmounted by a bust of a man draped in Roman costume. The whole stands on a podium with rounded ends and the memorial panel in the centre, on a base of rectangular form.
Inscription
ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE / TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR THOMAS PICTON, K.G.C.B. / WHO AFTER DISTINGUISHING HIMSELF IN THE VICTORIES OF / BUZACO, FUENTES DE ONOR, CUIDAD RODRIGO, BADAJOZ, VITORIA, / THE PYRENEES, ORTHES, AND TOULOUSE; / TERMINATED HIS LONG AND GLORIOUS MILITARY SERVICE / IN THE EVER MEMORABLE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, / TO THE SPLENDID SUCCESS OF WHICH / HIS GENIUS AND VALOUR EMINENTLY CONTRIBUTED, / ON THE XVIII OF JUNE MDCCCXV
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Picton, Thomas
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Commemorations
  • Waterloo Campaign (1815)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, forename, title, decorations, place of death, date of death, additional
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Memorial
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Undefined
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL by BURMAN, PETER P. 158 Source: Image Library NIWM
  • The Times, 9 June 1859, pp. 7 c. A
  • The Times, 6 June 1859, pp. 6 c. F
  • [Response to Letter in 'The Times'] published 6 May 1859, pp. 4 c. C
  • [Letter to 'The Times'] published 5 May 1859, pp.10 c. F
  • [Book] Spurrell, William. (1879, 2nd Edition). 'Carmarthen and Its Neigbourhood', pp. 55 - 56.
  • DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS 1660 - 1851 by GUNNIS, RUPERT P. 161-162 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:MURRAYS SALES AND SERVICE CO. 1968 LONDON
  • St Paul's Cathedral Inventory 145

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