The Statue of Alfred the Great is located in the centre of Winchester, England. It was commissioned in 1899 as part of the celebrations of the millennium since the death of Alfred the Great, the King of the West Saxons and the first King of the Anglo-Saxons and by convention the first English monarch and founder of Kingdom of England. Designed by the Royal Academician Hamo Thornycroft, it was completed in 1901.

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