33+ Alfred Gilbert Statue Piccadilly Circus Background. It was removed for safekeeping during the two world wars and during the rebuilding of the piccadilly subway station in the 1920s. It was built in 1819 to connect regent street with piccadilly.

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The sculptor wrote of 'blindfolded love sending forth indiscriminately, yet with purpose, his missile of. It crowns the memorial fountain to the victorian social reformer, lord shaftesbury. The sculpture was at first cast in gold but later replaced by newfangled aluminium, the first outdoor statue in that lightweight metal.

To add to the confusion, the figure is officially the 'angel of christian charity' and dedicated to the philanthropist and social reformer lord shaftesbury.

The basin was not as large as alfred gilbert's designs, resulting in passers by being gilbert was so furious at his altered and now rather embarrassingly impractical design that he refused to turn up for the unveiling. The triangle in the centre of the circus, is occupied by a memorial fountain to lord shaftesbury, by alfred gilbert, a.r.a., unveiled in 1893, and adorned with eight plaques of scenes from the philanthropist's life. Площадь пикадилли (piccadilly circus) | лондон. The sculpture was at first cast in gold but later replaced by newfangled aluminium, the first outdoor statue in that lightweight metal.