These pages are concerned with mainly Victorian art and architecture, and Weymouth appears as one of a several south coast towns. There is no art gallery here, but of artistic interest are some statuary, some churches and a serious 18th Century painting. Weymouth shows a nice succession of building styles going inland from the beach. The sea front has Georgian buildings, the next street back from the Promenade has Victorian ones, and then further back are large Edwardian detached and semi D, some slightly Gothicised with the odd turret, nice pointy porches, but simple square windows.
Modern buildings occur as infill and even further back from sea front.
Three statues George III visited the town several times from 1789, which caused the inhabitants to exert themselves mightily to liven the place up, most notably building the Esplanade, a half mile long 30 ft wide road, and putting a statue of the King at one end in 1810. This statue still exists, standing on a big plinth, with a with a long inscription regarding the decision in 1809 to build the monument. J. Hamilton was the architect. The figure of George is standing, with crown on left, books piled up on right, shield, flag etc in subsidiary positions. Facing George III from the other end of the Esplanade at this suitable distance is another statue, of Queen Victoria, dating from 1902.