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A statue of Margaret Thatcher stands in her birthplace, the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. The statue is 10 feet 6 inches (3.2 m) high, [1] cast in bronze, and depicts the late British prime minister Baroness Thatcher, dressed in the full ceremonial robes of the House of Lords. It stands on a 10-foot-6-inch (3.2 m) plinth. [2]
The statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Guildhall, London, is a marble sculpture of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.It was commissioned in 1998 by the sculptor Neil Simmons by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art; [1] paid for by an anonymous donor, it was intended for a plinth among statues of former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the Members' Lobby ...
Statues to divisive figures are increasingly becoming the target of protest and vandalism. Marx and Thatcher: how memorials have become the lightning rods of 21st-century protest Skip to main content
The statue is 2.23 metres (7.3 ft) high, and cast in bronze. [1] The design of the statue is intended to show Margaret Thatcher during her final term as prime minister, between 1987 and 1990. It stands directly opposite the statue of Sir Winston Churchill and the doors to the chamber of the House of Commons. [2]
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In 2013, a few months before the death of Margaret Thatcher, the GCHA announced plans to raise funds to obtain a statue of the former prime minister. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The statue was installed on St Peter's Hill Green, close to the museum, in 2022, on a 3.2-metre (10 ft) tall plinth to discourage vandalism.
Lincolnshire Police have launched an investigation after a statue of Margaret Thatcher's severed head on a spike appeared in Grantham. The sculpture was discovered atop a plinth reserved for a £ ...