Wellington's Column was built to commemorate the 19 battles listed on it that the Duke won during the Napoleonic Wars.
Designed by Glasgwegian George Anderson Lawson, it features a plinth with bronze reliefs depicting the Duke's victories and a fluted doric column above it with a bronze statue on the top. The arrangement and design of the structure is similar to the Melville Monument in Edinburgh that Lawson would have been familiar with.
In urban planning terms the column is unusual in that it sits in a small public plaza but marks nothing such as a major throughfare. It merely stands there to the north-west of St George's Hall with the Iron Duke permanently looking south-east towards Waterloo.
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