Features
The park features:
- A reproduction of the sculpture The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, purchased by the British Government in 1911 and positioned in the Gardens in 1915.
- A 1930 statue of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, by A.G. Walker.
- The Buxton Memorial Fountain – originally constructed in Parliament Square, this was removed in 1940 and placed in its present position in 1957. It was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in 1834, dedicated to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton, and designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873) in 1865.
- A stone wall with two modern-style goats with kids – situated at the southern end of the Gardens.
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Buxton Memorial Fountain
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Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial
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Rodin: The Burghers of Calais
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