Victoria Tower Gardens, London

Victoria Tower Gardens is a public park on the north bank of the River Thames in London. It is located to the south of the Palace of Westminster. The park is triangular in shape and extends southwards from the Palace to Lambeth Bridge. It is bordered by Millbank to the west and the Thames Embankment to the left.

Victoria Tower Gardens were created in the 1870s. Within it are a few statues, including The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, purchased by the British Government in 1911 and positioned in the Gardens in 1915, and the 1930 statue of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, by A.G. Walker.

Towards the south end of the gardens is the Buxton Memorial Fountain. It was originally placed at Parliament Square but was moved to the gardens in 1957. The fountain was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in 1834. It was dedicated to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton, and designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812-1873) in 1865.

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