Bazalgette Memorial
51°30′23″N 0°07′20″W / 51.5064°N 0.1222°W
The Sir Joseph Bazalgette Memorial is a memorial to the Victorian engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, by George Blackall Simonds. It is located on the Victoria Embankment, a few feet up river from the Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges, opposite the junction with Northumberland Avenue.
Artist
While The Falconer (1873) is in
mayor of Reading.[4]
Substantial pieces were also commissioned for Indian locations,
Calcutta.[6]
In 1922 he designed the war memorial at Bradfield, Berkshire,[7] which commemorated the deaths of local men in the First World War including his son, a lieutenant with the South Wales Borderers.[8]
Subject
Bazalgette was a prolific Victorian engineer, responsible for
River Thames.[9]
Bazalgette's neo-classical mausoleum is in the churchyard of St. Mary's in Wimbledon.
References
- ISBN 0-85263-059-X.
- ^ a b Raymond Simonds. "George Blackall Simonds (1843–1929)". David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History.
- ^ New York City, Department of Parks: The Falconer; "1872" in Michele H. Bogart, Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890–1930 1989:19.
- ISBN 0-85263-059-X.
- ^ "George Blackall Simonds 1843–1929". The Berkshire Archaeological Journal. 75: 114.
- ^ "Falconer Artist Named Reading's Best". Daily Plant. 1 March 2005.
- ^ "Bradfield". Imperial War Museums.
- ^ "Bradfield". West Berkshire War Memorials.
- ISBN 978-0752493787.
External links
Media related to Joseph Bazalgette Memorial at Wikimedia Commons
