Winston Churchill Statue

Ivor Roberts-Jones's bronze of Sir Winston Churchill has stood in Parliament Square since 1973, when it was unveiled by his widow Clementine on 1 November 1973, before the Queen Mother, the serving prime minister and four former prime ministers. The statue shows Churchill in a naval greatcoat, leaning on a stick and looking across to the Houses of Parliament. The plinth beneath it is De Lank granite. For a monument always meant to be permanent, in the most symbolic square in the country, the stone was chosen for the reasons it has always been valued: it does not weather, it does not stain, and its silver-grey colour sets off the dark bronze above. The single word CHURCHILL is cut into the granite along the front edge.