Immediately behind the equestrian statue rises Nelson's Column, erected in 1840-43, consisting of a colossal statue of the hero of Trafalgar, by E. H. Bailey, supported by a fluted column 176 ft. high, with a Corinthian capital, the work of Railton, the whole rising from a square pedestal 36 ft. high, adorned with the following bas-reliefs, cast in gun-metal taken in Nelson's various victories: the "Death of Nelson," by Carew; the "Battle of Copenhagen," by Termouth; the "Battle of St. Vincent," by Watson; and the "Battle of the Nile," by Woodington.
The much-criticised lions at the base of the pedestal are the work of Sir Edwin Landseer, and were added in 1868. The monument on the south-west of the column is that to Sir Charles Napier, by Adams, and is a companion to that on the south-east, not seen in our view, to Sir Henry Havelock, by Behnes.