This is King Alfred the Great (871-899) in Trinity Church Square, Southwark. The statue was moved to the Square in 1822 when it was build and laid out from Westminster Hall. It had been at Westminster since 1372. By 1822 it was concealed by two inns – “Heaven” and “Hell”.
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Image (c) Paul Simpson 2010. Thanks to Ruth Elkins.
Public Sculpture of South London
Author: Terry Cavanagh
Publisher: Liverpool University Press 2007
Mr Cavanagh convincingly demonststes that the ‘Westminster Hall’ story is without documentary evidence & that the statue does not resemble the surviving C14th kings. Instead he dates it to 1822 and attributes it to James Bubb.