Wallace Monument Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller, Thomas Chalmers, David Livingstone, and W. E. Gladstone. In 2017 it was announced that Mary Slessor and Maggie Keswick Jencks will be the first heroines to be celebrated in the hall. The original Victorian statue of Wallace stands on the corner of the monument and is by the Edinburgh sculptor David Watson Stevenson. In 1996 Tom Church carved a statue of Wallace called "Freedom", which was inspired by the film "Braveheart". It has the face of Mel Gibson, the actor who played William Wallace in the film. Church leased the statue to Stirling Council, who in
Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom The Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom or the Lapu Lapu Monument is a monument to Lapu-Lapu located at Rizal Park specifically at the center of the Agrifina Circle. A brainchild of former Tourism Secretary Richard Gordon, the project is known as "The Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom". It is a gift of the Korea Freedom League to the Filipino people. The monument was conceptualized to give recognition to the first Asian who fought against foreign invasion. According to the former tourism chief, the location of the statue of Lapu-Lapu is highly significant.