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Statue of Edward Colston

The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of -born merchant and transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston. It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known as The Centre in Bristol, until it was toppled by anti-racism protestors in 2020.
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Photo: John Cassidy (artist), CC0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: former public statue in Bristol, England
  • Also known as: “Edward Colston”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include M Shed and Matthew.

Museum
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in , England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the in a dockside transit shed formerly occupied by Bristol Industrial Museum.

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was a caravel sailed by John Cabot in 1497 from to , North America. There are two modern replicas – one in , England and one in , Newfoundland.

Arts center
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is an international arts centre and gallery in , England. It has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions, artist's performance, music and dance events, poetry and book readings, talks, lectures and cinema. is situated 710 feet northeast of Statue of Edward Colston.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Southville and Bristol city centre.

Suburb
is an inner city neighbourhood and council ward of , , on the south bank of the River Avon northwest of . Built mainly between the 1880s and the First World War for workers in local industries, it mixes Victorian terraces with post-bombing infill and recent developments.

Suburb
is the commercial, cultural and business centre of , . It is the area north of the of the River Avon, bounded by Clifton Wood and to the north-west, and to the north, and , and St Phillip's Marsh to the east.

Suburb
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, also known as Redcliff, is a district of the port city of , lying south-east of . It is bounded by the loop of the to the west, north and east, together with the New Cut of the River Avon to the south.

Statue of Edward Colston

Latitude
51.44751° or 51° 26′ 51″ north
Longitude
-2.59848° or 2° 35′ 55″ west
Open location code
9C3VCCX2+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2941119302
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q26497793
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Statue of Edward Colston” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “estàtua d’Edward Colston”
  • Catalan: “Estàtua d’Edward Colston”
  • Chinese: “科尔斯顿青铜雕像”
  • Chinese: “科爾斯頓青銅雕像”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال ادوارد كولستون”
  • French: “statue d’Edward Colston”
  • French: “Statue d’Edward Colston”
  • German: “Edward-Colston-Denkmal”
  • German: “Edward-Colston-Statue”
  • German: “Statue von Edward Colston”
  • Italian: “Statua di Edward Colston”
  • Japanese: “エドワード・コルストンの像”
  • Russian: “Памятник Эдварду Кольстену”
  • Spanish: “Estatua de Edward Colston”
  • Swedish: “Edward Colstons staty”
  • Swedish: “Staty över Edward Colson”
  • Welsh: “Cerflun Edward Colston”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Statue of Edward Colston”. Photo: John Cassidy (artist), CC0.