Crimean War Memorial

Crimean War Memorial stands on an island in a Westminster road, where bronze figures rise above grey and red granite. John Bell’s monument shows three guardsmen: a Coldstream, a Grenadier and a Fusilier. Above them, Honour and Victory opens her arms from a taller granite pedestal. Wheelchair access makes the memorial easier to approach and examine.

Erected in 1861, the sculpture commemorates the allied victory in the Crimean War and centres ordinary soldiers rather than commanders. Captured Sebastopol cannons supplied the bronze, while a foliage-framed shield names Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol. Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert stand beside the original group, linking military history with medical reform. Their plinths carry reliefs of hospitals, soldiers, nurses, politicians and cannon workers.

A rear plaque remembers 2,162 members of the Brigade of Guards who died during the war with Russia. Nightingale holds a lamp, and her relief places her at a Scutari hospital doorway.