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  2. Statue of Alfred the Great, Winchester - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Alfred the Great is located in the centre of Winchester, England. It was commissioned in 1899 as part of the celebrations of the millennium since the death of Alfred the Great, the Saxon monarch considered one of the founders of England. [1] Designed by the Royal Academician Hamo Thornycroft, it was completed in 1901. [2]

  3. Statue of Alfred the Great, Southwark - Wikipedia

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    The statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark is thought to be London's oldest outdoor statue. The lower portion comes from a Roman statue dating to the late 1st or early 2nd century AD, while the top portion is a late 18th- or early 19th-century Coade stone addition in medieval style.

  4. Statue of Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Alfred the Great, Wantage; Statue of Alfred the Great, Winchester This page was last edited on 14 February 2022, at 11:19 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  5. Statue of Alfred the Great, Wantage - Wikipedia

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    The statue of Alfred the Great, in the Wantage market place, was sculpted by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria's, and unveiled on 14 July 1877 by the Prince and Princess of Wales. [1] It was presented to the town by Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage. [2] It depicts the 9th-century King Alfred the Great. [3]

  6. Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    Alfred was a son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").

  7. Cultural depictions of Alfred the Great - Wikipedia

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    King Alfred the Great pictured in a stained glass window in the West Window of the south transept of Bristol Cathedral, by Arnold Wathen Robinson: Eastern Orthodox Ikon of King St. Alfred the Great: 19th century painting of King Alfred (The Great) Statue of Alfred the Great at Wantage, Berkshire, 1877.

  8. Charity to rewild ‘birthplace of England’ after buying Alfred ...

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    Somerset Wildlands has purchased 73 acres of farmland below the Isle of Athelney where the king burned the cakes and dreamed of a vision of England.

  9. Trinity Church Square - Wikipedia

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    The statue of a king on the stone plinth in the square is Grade II listed. The statue was speculated to be one of eight medieval statues from the north end towers of Westminster Hall (c. late 14th century) or, alternatively, one of a pair representing Alfred the Great and Edward, the Black Prince made for the garden of Carlton House in the 18th ...