Haloed Queen Anne

Statue of Queen Anne south at Holmhurst St Mary's School is dated 1711-1712, and
understood to be in Carrara Marble by the English sculptor Francis Bird. The statue originally stood outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, but by 1886 it was in a poor condition and replaced by a replica. The discarded statue was moved by Victorian writer Augustus Hare to his house at Holmhurst St Mary in c.1888, with a new plinth formed from the local sandstone.