The monument to Sir Alexander Ball was erected at the Lower Barracca Gardens on St Christopher's Bastion. It is an essay in the neo-Classical style and resembles a small Greek Doric temple set amid the landscaping.

The monument comprises four columns on each side and a cella having an allegorical figure in niches on each of the four sides representing war, prudence, justice and immortality. These were sculpted by Vincenzo Dimech. The monument is set upon a rostrum of four rusticated courses and surrounded by a palisade.

The monument was erected in 1810 to commemorate Sir Alexander Ball, the first British Civil Commissioner in Malta. He had been sent to aid the Maltese in their uprising against the French. He died in 1819 and was buried in St Elmo.

Mepa scheduled Sir Ball's monument as a Grade 1 national monument as per Government Notice number 276/08 in the Government Gazette dated March 28.

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