Image description: Father Thames (detail; by R Monti) reclining at St John's Lock, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, River Thames.
This statue was originally commissioned for the Crystal Palace (London) in 1854. It marked the head of the Thames at Trewsbury Mead from 1959 to 1974, and was subsequently moved to oversee pleasure boaters passing through St John's Lock.

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