It was sculpted by Ivor Roberts-Jones and is located on the main green of Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster.

[2] The statue shows Winston Churchill standing with his hand resting on his walking stick and wearing a military greatcoat.

His pose is based on a well-known photograph of Churchill inspecting the Chamber of the House of Commons after it had been destroyed by bombing on the night of 10–11 May 1941.

[6] Joe Whitlock Blundell and Roger Hudson, in their study of London statuary, The Immortals, contrast unfavourably Roberts-Jones' treatment of the greatcoat with that achieved by Charles Sargeant Jagger in his representations of infantrymen on the Great Western Railway and Royal Artillery Memorials, and suggest that Churchill's hunched shoulders convey "too much of the tortoise".

"[5] The statue that was eventually installed was first suggested by John Tilney, Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree, in a parliamentary question in 1968.

[8] The sum of £32,000 was raised by 4,500 individuals who are listed in a book which was deposited in the library at Chartwell on Churchill's birthday, 30 November 1973.

[10] An animation of the statue is included in the film short Happy and Glorious, made for and shown at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

[24] There are also variant statues of Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones on Solli plass in the "English Quarter" of Oslo, Norway; and in British Place, New Orleans, USA.