His work appears in many churches and cemeteries in England and Wales, in Westminster Abbey, and in the old town hall of Merthyr Tydfil.

At the age of seventeen he saw the collection of stone Celtic crosses at Margam Abbey and decided to become a sculptor.

for Coventry), Edith Wynne, and George Virtue, and members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families.

There are artists who will make as good busts, but there is no living sculptor who can produce monumental work so pure, so refined, so essentially holy.

"[4] By 1881 he seems to have fallen on hard times as he was living as a lodger in Robert Street, west of Euston Station[5] and that year, sponsored by George Frederic Watts, Edwards was awarded a pension under the Turner Bequest, but he died shortly after receiving it.