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| Ornamental sculpture of a ''[[putto]]'' sitting astride a vulture, believed to have been commissioned by the artist Sigismund Goetze for his home at Grove Lodge (now Grove House), Regent’s Park. Presented to Queen Mary’s Gardens in 1939.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1375638|title=Lost Bow Statue, Queen Mary’s Gardens, Regent’s Park|work=National Heritage List for England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=10 November 2013}</ref>
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Revision as of 15:29, 10 November 2013

The equestrian statue of Charles I (Hubert Le Sueur, 1633) at Charing Cross. This is the point from which distances from London have been measured since the eighteenth century.

This article lists public art in the City of Westminster, a borough in central London. It includes statues, busts and other kinds of permanent sculpture, memorials (excluding plaques without a sculptural element on buildings), fountains, murals and exterior mosaics. A separate article lists architectural sculpture on buildings in the area.

The City of Westminster has more public sculpture than any other area of London,[1] containing as it does most of the West End, the political centres of Westminster and Whitehall and three of the Royal Parks (with parts of Regent's Park and Kensington Gardens), as well as London’s official centre at Charing Cross. Many of the most notable sites for commemoration in London lie within its boundaries, including Trafalgar Square (largely dedicated to military and naval leaders), Parliament Square (for British and foreign statesmen) and the Victoria Embankment. On the western edge of the district one of the most ambitious artistic works of the Victorian age was erected, the Albert Memorial. After World War I many memorials to the conflict were raised in the area, the most significant being the Grade I-listed Cenotaph in Whitehall. So great is the number of monuments and memorials in the City of Westminster that its council has deemed an area stretching from Whitehall to St James's to be a "monument saturation zone" where the addition of new memorials is generally discouraged; the same restriction applies in Royal Parks within the borough.[2] Sculptors of note whose work is in public spaces in the City of Westminster include Auguste Rodin, Sir Alfred Gilbert, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Dame Elisabeth Frink.

In addition to the permanent works which are the subject of this article, the City of Westminster is also host to several temporary displays of sculpture. The most high-profile of these is at the Fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, which has shown works by contemporary artists on rotation since 1999. Temporary displays of new sculpture can also be seen at the Economist Plaza in St James's and the courtyard of Burlington House (the Royal Academy) on Piccadilly. In 2010 Westminster City Council inaugurated the City of Sculpture project, which has seen contemporary sculpture installed in locations across the district.[3]

Aldwych / Strand

Strand is a street which runs between Trafalgar Square and Fleet Street. Aldwych is a crescent connected to the Strand at both ends.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
George III and Father Thames Sculptural groups Courtyard, Somerset House

51°30′41″N 0°07′03″W / 51.51133°N 0.11742°W / 51.51133; -0.11742 (George III and Father Thames)

1790 c. 1790 John Bacon Sir William Chambers The King, in the upper group, leans on a rudder and is flanked by a British lion and the prow of a classical barge; the Thames is represented below him as a river god. The maritime theme refers both to the function of the building, as offices for the Royal Navy (among other institutions), and to the King himself as steering the ship of state.[4] Grade I
Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone
Category:Gladstone Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Gladstone Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with statue and other sculpture Strand, in front of St Clement Danes

51°30′47″N 0°06′52″W / 51.51296°N 0.11458°W / 51.51296; -0.11458 (Gladstone Memorial)

1905 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft John Lee Unveiled 4 November 1905. Allegorical figures around the base represent Courage, Education, Aspiration and Brotherhood. Also represented are the arms of Gladstone’s constituencies, Midlothian, Oxford University, the Duchy of Lancaster and Newark.[5] Grade II
Samuel Johnson
Category:Statue of Samuel Johnson, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Samuel Johnson, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Strand, behind St Clement Danes

51°30′48″N 0°06′49″W / 51.51321°N 0.11355°W / 51.51321; -0.11355 (Samuel Johnson)

1910 Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Unveiled 4 August 1910. Fitzgerald was an amateur sculptor and something of a self-appointed authority on Dr Johnson, who was a parishioner of St Clement’s. A portrait medallion of James Boswell is set into the pedestal, which is a post-war replacement for the original.[6] Grade II
File:Civil Service Rifles Memorial sm.jpg Civil Service Rifles War Memorial Memorial River Terrace, Somerset House

51°30′37″N 0°07′03″W / 51.510328°N 0.117559°W / 51.510328; -0.117559 (Civil Service Rifles War Memorial)

1923
Sir Edwin Lutyens Unveiled 27 January 1924 in the centre of the courtyard of Somerset House; relocated in 2002. The painted stone flags are a feature that Lutyens originally intended to employ on the Cenotaph in Whitehall.[7] Grade II
Memorial to Andrew Young Plaque with portrait relief Strand, rear of central block of Bush House 1924 Eric Bradbury
Inscribed IN MEMORY OF/ ANDREW YOUNG F.S.I/ FIRST VALUER TO THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL/ 1884–1914/ HE LABOURED TO BEAUTIFY/ THE LONDON HE LOVED. Young oversaw the building of Aldwych and Kingsway in 1899–1905.[8]
Techtonic II Sculpture Opposite Tower Three, London School of Economics 1984 Haydn Llewellyn Davies
One of several works bequeathed to the LSE in 2005 by Louis Odette, a wealthy Canadian alumnus and the founder of the Odette Sculpture Park in Windsor, Ontario.[9]
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Category:Hugh Dowding statue, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Hugh Dowding statue, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Strand, in front of St Clement Danes 1988 Faith Winter C. A. Hart Unveiled 30 October 1988 by the Queen Mother. The pose has been described as "deliberately unheroic".[10] St Clement Danes is the Central Church of the Royal Air Force.
Jawaharlal Nehru Bust India Place 1991 Latika Katt Peter Leach Unveiled 14 November 1991 in India House.[11]
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Category:Arthur Harris, statue in London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Arthur Harris, statue in London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Strand, in front of St Clement Danes 1992 Faith Winter T. Hart and Michael Goss Unveiled 31 May 1992 by the Queen Mother. The decision to commemorate Harris ignited a major controversy, and was criticised by the mayors of Dresden and Cologne. The unveiling was met by a public protest.[12]
Eagle Sculpture Outside Tower One, London School of Economics 2000 A. Duquette
A small bronze of an eagle′s head. This and the five works that follow are part of the Odette bequest of 2005 to the LSE.[9]
Salutation Sculpture Near the Peacock Theatre, London School of Economics 2002 Ralph Hicks
An abstracted representation, in stainless steel, of a human figure bowing its head to passersby. Another version is at the Odette Sculpture Park.[13]
Baby Tembo Sculpture Clare Market, near London School of Economics 2002 Derrick Stephan Hudson
This work and Yolanda vanderGaast’s Penguin were sited on Clare Market as the LSE crèche was at that time at the top of the street, and it was thought that these sculptures might appeal to children. The crèche has since moved.[9]
Three Fates Sculpture Opposite Tower Three, London School of Economics 2003 Morton Katz
Equus Sculpture John Watkins Plaza 2003 Edwina Sandys
A bronze copy of a smaller marble original of 1977, produced during the artist’s "Stone Age" period.[14]
Penguin Sculpture Clare Market, near London School of Economics 2009 Yolanda vanderGaast
VanderGaast′s original Penguin of 2002[9] stood in Clare Market from 2005. In 2009 it was stolen; the thieves left only the flippers behind. The replacement statue is more firmly secured to the ground than its predecessor.[15]

Bayswater

Bayswater is a built-up district north-west of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Hyde Park over Kensington Gardens.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Memorial Cross

Statues of Saints George, Louis, Maurice, Longinus, Adrian, Florian and Eustace

Memorial Lancaster Gate

51°30′41″N 0°10′48″W / 51.511494°N 0.18012°W / 51.511494; -0.18012 (Memorial Cross)

1921 Lawrence A. Turner Sir Walter Tapper Unveiled 27 March 1921. Commemorates residents of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington who sacrificed their lives in World War I. Severely damaged in the Great Storm of 1987. Re-erected on present site on 11 November 2002.[16]
Memorial to Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath Memorial Lancaster Gate

51°30′40″N 0°10′48″W / 51.511222°N 0.180006°W / 51.511222; -0.180006 (Meath Memorial)

1934 Joseph Hermon Cawthra
Unveiled 24 May 1934.[17]

Belgravia

Belgravia is a district south-west of Buckingham Palace, and is approximately bounded by Knightsbridge to the north, Grosvenor Place and Buckingham Palace Road to the east, Pimlico Road to the south, and Sloane Street to the west. For works in Belgravia outside the Westminster boundary, see the List of public art in Kensington and Chelsea.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Memorial to Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster Drinking fountain Junction of Pimlico Road and Avery Farm Row

51°29′28″N 0°09′01″W / 51.4911°N 0.1503°W / 51.4911; -0.1503 (Memorial Fountain to the 2nd Marquess of Westminster)

1871
Thomas Henry Wyatt Grade II
Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet Statue Westminster City School, Palace Street 1901 Frank Taubman
Unveiled 27 June 1901. A replica of the statue in Waterlow Park, Highgate.[18]
Simón Bolívar Statue Belgrave Square 1974 Hugo Daini
Unveiled by James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, and the Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera. The statue of Bolívar in London is said to represent him as a maker of constitutions, as those in Madrid, Rome and Paris are equestrian. The quotation on the pedestal stresses his admiration for British institutions: "I am convinced that England alone is capable of protecting the world's precious rights as she is great, glorious and wise."[19]
Great Flora L Sculpture Chesham Place 1978 Fritz Koenig
The sculpture stands outside the extension to the German Embassy, with which it is contemporary.[20] It was conceived as "a fragile ‘call-sign’ in the heart of the surging metropolis".[21]
Hercules Statue Ormonde Place 1981 (erected)
A small, bronze replica of the Farnese Hercules. Pedestal inscribed HERCULES/ THIS STATUE IS EXHIBITED/ BY WATES LIMITED/ MAY 1981.
Homage to Leonardo: the Vitruvian Man
Category:Homage to Leonardo by Enzo Plazzotta on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Homage to Leonardo by Enzo Plazzotta on Wikimedia Commons

Leonardo da Vinci

Sculpture Belgrave Square 1982 Enzo Plazzotta and Mark Holloway
Based on Leonardo’s drawing of the Vitruvian Man. Completed by Holloway, Plazzotta’s studio assistant, after the elder sculptor’s death in 1981. Funded by the American construction magnate John M. Harbert.[22]
Christopher Columbus Statue Belgrave Square

51°29′54″N 0°09′13″W / 51.49846°N 0.153569°W / 51.49846; -0.153569 (Christopher Columbus)

1992 Tomás Bañuelos
Given by the people of Spain in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. His birth date is mistakenly given as 1446 on the pedestal.[23]
José de San Martín Statue Belgrave Square 1994 Juan Carlos Ferraro
A gift of the Anglo-Argentine community in Argentina, unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh.[24]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Statue Orange Square, corner of Ebury Street and Pimlico Road 1994 Philip Jackson
The composer is depicted aged 8, when he stayed in a house on Ebury Street for the summer and autumn of 1764; he wrote his first two symphonies there. The statue was proposed to mark the bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991.[25]
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Statue Wilton Crescent 1998 Jonathan Wylder
The developer of Belgravia is shown studying plans of the area, his foot resting on a milestone inscribed CHESTER/ 197/ MILES, indicating the distance to his estate at Eaton Hall. On either side sit two talbots, the supporters from his coat of arms.[26]
Prince Henry the Navigator Statue Belgrave Square 2002 (erected) after José Simões de Almeida (the younger)
Unveiled 12 February 2002 by Jorge Sampaio, the President of Portugal.[27] A cast of a statue in Vila Franca do Campo on São Miguel Island, erected in 1932 to commemorate the quincentenary of the arrival of the Portuguese to the Azores.[28] The Portuguese Embassy is at 11 Belgrave Square.[29]
Queen Victoria Statue Victoria Square 2008 Catherine Anne Laugel
The Queen is depicted as a young woman of 20, the age she would have been when construction on the square began.[30]
George Basevi Bust Belgrave Square
Jonathan Wylder

Charing Cross / Trafalgar Square

Charing Cross, at the junction of Strand and Whitehall, was the site of the first public monument in what is now the City of Westminster: the Eleanor cross commissioned by Edward I in the late 13th century in memory of his late queen Eleanor of Castile.[31] (See below.) Destroyed by order of Parliament in the Civil War, this was replaced after the Restoration by the equestrian statue of Charles I by Hubert Le Sueur, the oldest public sculpture now standing in the borough. In 1865 a fanciful replica of the cross was erected in the forecourt of Charing Cross railway station, some distance away from the site of the original. Charing Cross came to be considered the official centre of London from the late eighteenth century onwards; a plaque marking this was installed near Le Sueur’s statue in 1955.[32]

Immediately to the north of Charing Cross lies Trafalgar Square, one of London’s most famous public spaces. Conceived in 1812 as part of John Nash’s urban improvements, the square was initially developed from the 1820s onwards.[33] Its centrepiece, Nelson's Column, was constructed in 1839–42, and an equestrian statue of George IV originally intended for Marble Arch was installed on the north-eastern plinth in 1843. Plans for a pendant statue of William IV never attracted sufficient funds and the north-western plinth remained empty until 1999.[34] Most of the memorials since added have had a military or naval flavour; an exception was the statue of the physician Edward Jenner, erected in 1858 but moved to Kensington Gardens only four years later. (See below.) Another work which originally stood on the square is Hamo Thornycroft’s statue of General Gordon; this was removed during World War II and reinstalled on the Victoria Embankment in 1953. (See below.) Since 1999 the formerly empty fourth plinth has become London’s most prominent showcase for temporary new sculpture.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist / Designer Architect Notes Listing
Charles I
Category:Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Charing Cross

51°30′26″N 0°07′40″W / 51.50732°N 0.12770°W / 51.50732; -0.12770 (Charles I)

1633 Hubert Le Sueur Sir Christopher Wren The earliest Renaissance-style equestrian statue in England. Originally commissioned in 1630 by Charles I’s Lord High Treasurer, Lord Richard Weston, for his estate in Roehampton (then in Surrey). Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when it was set on its current pedestal.[35] The reliefs were carved by Joshua Marshall, Master Mason to Charles II.[36] Grade I
James II
Category:Statue of James II in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of James II in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Lawn in front of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

51°30′30″N 0°07′45″W / 51.50847°N 0.12906°W / 51.50847; -0.12906 (James II)

1686 Grinling Gibbons and workshop
Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat for a site outside the Palace of Whitehall. One of three statues of Stuart monarchs commissioned by him, the others being those of Charles II at the Chelsea Royal Hospital and Windsor Castle. Erected on present site in 1946.[37] Grade I
George IV
Category:Statue of George IV of the United Kingdom in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of George IV of the United Kingdom in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue North-eastern plinth, Trafalgar Square

51°30′30″N 0°07′39″W / 51.50834°N 0.12761°W / 51.50834; -0.12761 (George IV)

1830 Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey Sir Charles Barry Originally intended to be the crowning feature of Marble Arch, the decorative scheme of which was cut back after George IV’s death. It still had no home after Chantrey’s death in 1843 and in December of that year it was erected in the newly laid-out Trafalgar Square.[38] Grade II
Nelson's Column
Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Category:Nelson's Column on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Nelson's Column on Wikimedia Commons
Statue on column Centre of Trafalgar Square

51°30′28″N 0°07′41″W / 51.50772°N 0.12794°W / 51.50772; -0.12794 (Admiral Lord Nelson)

1839–42 Edward Hodges Baily William Railton Nelson is portrayed without an eyepatch, but is unidealised by the standards of the time. The figure is given stability by the coil of rope behind. Portland stone was chosen over bronze as the statue then "would not be resorted to as plunder in revolutions".[39] Grade I
The Battle of Trafalgar or The Death of Nelson Bas-relief South face of pedestal of Nelson's Column 1846–9 John Edward Carew
Nelson is depicted immediately after receiving his mortal wound; Captain Hardy turns back towards him whilst sailors to the left take aim at the marksman who dealt the blow. Inscribed at the bottom ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY.[40] Grade I
The Battle of the Nile Bas-relief North face of pedestal of Nelson's Column 1846–50 William F. Woodington
Nelson has been taken below deck after being wounded in the head during the attack on the French fleet in Abu Qir Bay. Captain Edward Berry stands by his side.[41] Grade I
The Bombardment of Copenhagen Bas-relief East face of pedestal of Nelson's Column 1846–54 John Ternouth
Nelson, on board his flagship HMS Elephant, applies his seal to an ultimatum directed at the Crown Prince of Denmark. The city of Copenhagen is visible in the background.[42] Grade I
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent Bas-relief West face of pedestal of Nelson's Column 1846–54 Musgrave Watson and William F. Woodington
Nelson is on board a Spanish ship, the San Nicolas. A Spanish officer kneels in front of Nelson, surrendering the swords of his fellow officers. Watson died in 1847 before he could complete the work.[43] Grade I
General Charles James Napier
Category:Statue of Charles James Napier, Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Charles James Napier, Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue South-western plinth, Trafalgar Square

51°30′28″N 0°07′43″W / 51.50773°N 0.12857°W / 51.50773; -0.12857 (Charles James Napier)

1855 George Gammon Adams
Unveiled 26 November 1856. Napier holds a scroll out in his right hand, a gesture which symbolises the giving of government to Sindh. The statue was much criticised, The Art Journal calling it "perhaps the worst piece of sculpture in England".[44] Grade II
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock
Category:Statue of Henry Havelock in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Henry Havelock in Trafalgar Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue South-eastern plinth, Trafalgar Square

51°30′29″N 0°07′39″W / 51.50792°N 0.1274°W / 51.50792; -0.1274 (Henry Havelock)

1861 William Behnes
Unveiled 10 April 1861. The pedestal inscribed at the front with a quotation from one of Havelock’s pre-battle speeches, and to the rear with a list of British and Indian regiments commanded by him during the Indian Mutiny. This was the first statue ever to be modelled from a photograph.[45] Grade II
Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross
Eleanor of Castile
Category:Eleanor cross, Charing Cross on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Eleanor cross, Charing Cross on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Forecourt of Charing Cross railway station

51°30′30″N 0°07′31″W / 51.50842°N 0.12536°W / 51.50842; -0.12536 (Eleanor Cross)

1865 Thomas Earp Edward Middleton Barry A replica (with some artistic license) of the original Eleanor cross at Charing, with some details inspired by the Oxford Martyrs' Memorial. It stands some distance away from the original location of the Charing Cross.[46] Grade II*
Four Lions
Category:Statues of lions at Nelson's Column on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statues of lions at Nelson's Column on Wikimedia Commons
Statues At the foot of Nelson's Column 1867 Sir Edwin Landseer
Unveiled 31 January 1867. Landseer, an animal painter with no previous experience in sculpture, was assisted by Carlo Marochetti.[47] Grade I
John Law Baker Memorial Drinking Fountain Drinking fountain with sculpture Churchyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields 1886
A truncated fluted column with lion’s-head fountains on two sides, their basins now filled in. Inscribed IN MEMORY OF JOHN LAW BAKER/ FORMERLY OF THE MADRAS ARMY/ BORN 1789 – DIED 1886.[48] Grade II
William Gilson Humphry Memorial Drinking Fountain Drinking fountain Adelaide Street, adjacent to corner with Duncannon Street 1886
A basic granite drinking fountain set into the churchyard wall of St Martin’s, where Humphry was vicar from 1815 until his death in 1886. Restored with a replica bronze lion mash spout in about 1989, but this is no longer visible on the memorial.[49] No listing, but wall and railings listed Grade I
Memorial to Edith Cavell
Category:Edith Cavell Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Edith Cavell Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Pylon with sculpture St Martin's Place

51°30′34″N 0°07′38″W / 51.50934°N 0.12722°W / 51.50934; -0.12722 (Edith Cavell)

1920 Sir George Frampton
Unveiled 17 March 1920 by Queen Alexandra. The earliest World War I memorial project in England; plans for it began soon after Cavell’s death in 1915. The inscription FOR KING AND COUNTRY was felt to be a travesty of Cavell’s beliefs; in 1924 another was added with her words, PATRIOTISM IS NOT ENOUGH/ I MUST HAVE NO HATRED OR/ BITTERNESS FOR ANYONE.[50] Grade II
George Washington Statue Lawn in front of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

51°30′31″N 0°07′39″W / 51.508720°N 0.127590°W / 51.508720; -0.127590 (George Washington)

1921 after Jean-Antoine Houdon
Unveiled 30 June 1921. A bronze cast of Houdon's 1796 marble statue for the Virginia State Capitol. The state of Virginia offered the cast to London in 1914 to mark the centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, and thus of Anglo-American peace.[51] Grade II

Memorial to Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe Bust, and fountain with two sculptural groups Western fountain and balustrade of Trafalgar Square 1948 Sir Charles Wheeler Sir Edwin Lutyens The Jellicoe and Beatty memorials were unveiled on 21 October 1948 (Trafalgar Day) by the Duke of Gloucester. They were adapted from the fountains designed by Sir Charles Barry and installed in 1845; Lutyens retained Barry’s cusped quatrefoil-shaped basins and added the vase-shaped central fountains. Each memorial consists of a fountain with a bronze sculptural group and a bust of the admiral in question. During the 2003 refurbishment of the square the busts were moved to the eastern side of the new steps; they previously faced their associated fountains.[52] Grade II*

Memorial to Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty Bust, and fountain with two sculptural groups Eastern fountain and balustrade of Trafalgar Square 1948 William McMillan Sir Edwin Lutyens (See above) Grade II*
Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Bust Balustrade of Trafalgar Square 1967 Franta Belsky
Unveiled 2 April 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh. The bust contains a half-pint bottle of Guinness and a note written by the sculptor.[53]
File:Charing Cross tube stn Northern platform motif.JPG Platform murals Murals Charing Cross tube station 1979 David Gentleman
The murals on the Northern Line platforms depict the construction of the medieval Charing Cross; they are reproduced from woodcuts by Gentleman at twenty times their original size.[54] The murals for the Jubilee and Bakerloo lines feature photographs of Nelson’s Column and paintings in the National Gallery.[55]
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde Memorial with sculpture Adelaide Street, near St Martin-in-the-Fields 1998 Maggi Hambling
Unveiled 30 November 1998. A bronze sculpture of Wilde's head and hand (complete with cigarette) emerges from a granite, coffin-shaped plinth. Inscribed with a quotation from Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), We are all/ in the gutter/ but some of us/ are looking at/ the stars.[56]
In the Beginning Sculpture Portico of St Martin-in-the-Fields

51°30′32″N 0°07′37″W / 51.508774°N 0.127062°W / 51.508774; -0.127062 (In the Beginning)

1999 Michael Chapman
Light well

Natalie Skilbeck

Inscription around balustrade North of St Martin-in-the-Fields 2008 Tom Perkins (lettering) Eric Parry Inscribed with a poem by Andrew Motion in stainless steel letters, individually cast.[57][58] Natalie Skilbeck was a traveller on her gap year killed in a road accident in Mauritius in 2004.[59]

Covent Garden

Covent Garden, noted for its former fruit and vegetable market which is now a shopping and tourist area, is an area on the eastern edge of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. Parts of Covent Garden are in the Borough of Camden; for works in that area see here.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Young Dancer Statue Broad Court off Bow Street WC2 1988 Enzo Plazzotta
Unveiled 16 May 1988. A gift to Westminster Council by the sculptor’s estate.[60]
Neptune Fountain Fountain with sculpture Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden 1995 Philip Thomason Donald Insall Part of the southern gate of the church, reconstructed to Inigo Jones’s design after it had been removed in 1877. The material used is a very close match to Coade stone,[61] the recipe for which has been lost.
Memorial to Agatha Christie Memorial with sculpture Corner of Great Newport Street and Cranbourn Street 2012 Ben Twiston-Davies
Unveiled 18 November 2012. Marks the 60th year of the run of Christie’s play The Mousetrap, the longest in theatrical history, which is staged nearby at St Martin's Theatre. The memorial takes the form of a book as Christie is also the world’s best-selling novelist.[62] Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, the Orient Express and a country house are depicted in relief on the book’s cover.[63]

Green Park

Green Park is one of London's royal parks, between Hyde Park and St. James's Park.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Diana Drinking fountain with sculpture Near the entrance of Green Park tube station 1951 Estcourt James (Jim) Clack
Unveiled 30 June 1954 on the site of an earlier fountain by Sydney Smirke. The new work was a gift of the Constance Fund, a trust fund set up in accordance with the wishes of the artist Sigismund Goetze to commission sculpture for London’s parks.[64] The fountain was moved to its current, more prominent position in 2011, when some gilding was added.[65]
File:Green Park stn Victoria motif.JPG Tile motif Tile motif Green Park tube station Victoria Line platforms 1969 Hans Unger
One of a series of platform tile motifs commissioned for the stations of the new Victoria Line, Unger’s abstract design represents a bird’s-eye view of trees in Green Park.[66]
File:Green Park Jubilee Leafs.jpg Leaves Tile motif Green Park tube station Jubilee Line platforms 1979 Jane Fraser
Canada Memorial
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Category:Canada Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial Green Park

51°30′10″N 0°08′33″W / 51.502888°N 0.142622°W / 51.502888; -0.142622 (Canada Memorial)

1994 Pierre Granche Ove Arup and Partners Unveiled 3 June 1994 by Queen Elizabeth II.[67] A pyramid of Canadian granite bisected by a passageway, forming the shape of an arrow pointing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, whence Canadian soldiers sailed for London in order to fight in both world wars. Inscribed bilingually in English and French.[68]
Memorial Gates
Category:Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill on Wikimedia Commons
Four stone pillars supporting lamps and, nearby, a chhatri Constitution Hill

51°30′09″N 0°08′57″W / 51.5025°N 0.1491°W / 51.5025; -0.1491 (Memorial Gates)

2002
Liam O'Connor Unveiled 6 November 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II. Inscribed IN MEMORY OF/ THE FIVE MILLION/ VOLUNTEERS FROM/ THE INDIAN/ SUB-CONTINENT/ AFRICA AND/ THE CARIBBEAN/ WHO FOUGHT WITH/ BRITAIN IN THE TWO/ WORLD WARS.[69]
Watering Holes Sculptural Drinking Fountain Green Park

51°30′17″N 0°08′44″W / 51.504707°N 0.14544°W / 51.504707; -0.14544 (Watering Holes)

2012 Robin Monotti and Mark Titman Unveiled May 2012. One of two winners of a Tiffany & Co Foundation sponsored Royal Parks Foundation international competition to design "a new, top-quality, low-cost, model drinking fountain", the other being the Trumpet fountain installed in Kensington Gardens.[70]
RAF Bomber Command Memorial
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Category:RAF Bomber Command Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Sculptural group inside pavilion Green Park

51°30′12″N 0°08′56″W / 51.503333°N 0.148889°W / 51.503333; -0.148889 (RAF Bomber Command Memorial)

2012 Philip Jackson Liam O'Connor Unveiled 28 June 2012 by Queen Elizabeth II. The memorial is classical in style, but its roof is lined with aluminium from a Halifax bomber, behind a stainless steel lattice inspired by the geodesic fuselage construction of Wellington bombers.[71]

Hyde Park

Hyde Park, one of the Royal Parks, is the largest park in London, covering an area of 142 hectares (350 acres).

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer / Landscape architect Notes Listing
Wellington Monument
Category:Achilles, Hyde Park on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Achilles, Hyde Park on Wikimedia Commons

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Statue Off Park Lane

51°30′16″N 0°09′10″W / 51.5045°N 0.1527°W / 51.5045; -0.1527 (Achilles)

1822 Sir Richard Westmacott
Unveiled 18 June 1822. Wellington is represented symbolically by the hero Achilles, although the head is said to be modelled on the Duke’s.[72] The statue, partly inspired by the classical sculptures of the Dioscuri on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, was cast from captured French cannon.[73] The first public nude statue in London since antiquity.[72] Grade II
Drinking fountain Drinking fountain Outside St George’s Hotel, Hyde Park Corner 1860
One of the earliest gifts of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association; the building behind was originally St George’s Hospital, which was felt to be a particularly appropriate location for a drinking fountain.[74] Grade II* (with old hospital building)
Boy and Dolphin Fountain with sculpture Rose Garden, South Carriage Drive

51°30′13″N 0°09′17″W / 51.5036°N 0.1546°W / 51.5036; -0.1546 (Boy with Dolphin)

1863 Alexander Munro
Moved in 1962 from Hyde Park to the Broad Walk, Regent’s Park. Returned to Hyde Park in 1994, in a different location from its original setting.[75] Grade II
Conduit House Memorial Urn on pedestal Serpentine Road

51°30′18″N 0°09′34″W / 51.5050°N 0.1595°W / 51.5050; -0.1595 (Conduit House Memorial)

1871
Marks the site of a conduit house which supplied the precinct of Westminster with water until the spring was cut off by drainage works in 1861. The building was demolished in 1868.[76] Grade II
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Category:Statue of Lord Byron, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Lord Byron, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Achilles Way traffic island, Park Lane

51°30′15″N 0°09′06″W / 51.5043°N 0.1518°W / 51.5043; -0.1518 (Lord Byron)

1880 Richard Claude Belt
Unveiled 24 May 1880. Inspired by a line from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18): "To sit on rocks and muse o’er flood and fell". Byron is depicted with his Newfoundland dog, Bo’sun. The marble pedestal, supplied by the Greek government, was added in 1882.[77] Grade II
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Category:Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Hyde Park Corner

51°30′10″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5029°N 0.1514°W / 51.5029; -0.1514 (Duke of Wellington)

1888 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm Howard Ince Unveiled 21 December 1888. The pedestal is flanked by four soldiers representing the four nations of the United Kingdom. Alfred Gilbert, an assistant in Boehm’s studio, claimed to have modelled the horse.[78] Grade II
Artemis or Diana Fountain with sculpture Rose Garden, South Carriage Drive

51°30′14″N 0°09′19″W / 51.503764°N 0.15527°W / 51.503764; -0.15527 (Artemis / Diana)

1899 Lady Feodora Gleichen
Made for the garden of Sir Walter Palmer’s house Frognal, in Ascot, Berkshire; presented to Hyde Park by Lady Jean Palmer in 1906.[79]
Peace
Category:Quadriga, Wellington Arch on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Quadriga, Wellington Arch on Wikimedia Commons
Quadriga Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner

51°30′09″N 0°09′03″W / 51.5025°N 0.150833°W / 51.5025; -0.150833 (Quadriga, Wellington Arch)

1908–12 Adrian Jones Decimus Burton Unveiled 2 April 1912.[80] Burton originally intended for a quadriga to surmount his arch, but in 1845 an equestrian statue of Wellington was installed in its place. This was removed to Aldershot when the arch’s orientation was changed in 1883. Edward VII commissioned the present group, but did not live to see its completion.[81] Grade I (with arch)
Memorial to the Cavalry of the Empire
Category:Cavalry of the Empire Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Cavalry of the Empire Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian sculpture with stone screen Serpentine Road

51°30′17″N 0°09′19″W / 51.5047°N 0.1553°W / 51.5047; -0.1553 (Cavalry Memorial)

1924 Adrian Jones Sir John James Burnet Unveiled 21 May 1924[82] at Stanhope Gate; moved in 1961 for the widening of Park Lane.[72] The armour was based on that of the fifteenth-century effigy of the Earl of Warwick at St Mary’s, Warwick, the horse’s furniture on that found in Dürer’s engraving of Saint George.[82] Grade II
Machine Gun Corps Memorial (David)
Category:Machine Gun Corps Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Machine Gun Corps Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Hyde Park Corner

51°30′12″N 0°09′03″W / 51.5032°N 0.1508°W / 51.5032; -0.1508 (Machine Gun Corps Memorial)

1925 Francis Derwent Wood
Unveiled 10 May 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. Re-erected on current location in 1962. The second bronze model for the figure stood in Chelsea Embankment Gardens from 1963 until it was stolen in the 1970s; it has been replaced by a replica.[83] Grade II
Memorial to William Henry Hudson Stone screen with relief sculpture West Carriage Drive

51°30′30″N 0°10′08″W / 51.5082°N 0.1690°W / 51.5082; -0.1690 (Rima (W. H. Hudson Memorial))

1925 Jacob Epstein Eric Gill (lettering) Unveiled 19 May 1925 by Stanley Baldwin.[84] Located near the Bird Sanctuary erected in Hudson’s memory, the memorial depicts the bird-spirit Rima, a character from his novel Green Mansions (1904). A controversial early work by Epstein which was dubbed "the Hyde Park Atrocity" by its detractors.[85] Grade II
Royal Artillery Memorial
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Category:Royal Artillery Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Hyde Park Corner

51°30′09″N 0°09′07″W / 51.5025°N 0.151944°W / 51.5025; -0.151944 (Royal Artillery Memorial)

1925 Charles Sargeant Jagger Lionel Pearson Unveiled 18 October 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. The regiment demanded a "realistic" memorial and got one, crowned with a howitzer rendered in stone. The figure of a dead soldier shrouded in a greatcoat was still, however, found to be unsettling.[86] Grade II*
Four Winds Fountain Fountain with sculptural group Hyde Park, near Park Lane

51°30′29″N 0°09′25″W / 51.508042°N 0.157009°W / 51.508042; -0.157009 (Joy of Life / Four Winds Fountain)

1963 Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones
Unveiled 25 June 1963; the site was formerly occupied by Munro’s Boy and Dolphin (see above). Originally titled Joy of Life, this was the last commission of the Constance Fund. The fountain basins were redesigned and the work’s name changed in 2000–1.[87]
Norwegian War Memorial
Category:Norwegian War Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Norwegian War Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Commemorative stone mounted on three smaller stones Hyde Park, west of Ranger’s Lodge

51°30′23″N 0°10′05″E / 51.506389°N 0.168056°E / 51.506389; 0.168056 (Norwegian War Memorial)

1978
Inscribed THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY THE ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY/ AND THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT FLEET IN THE YEAR 1978/ WE THANK THE BRITISH PEOPLE FOR FRIENDSHIP/ AND HOSPITALITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ YOU GAVE US A SAFE HAVEN IN OUR COMMON STRUGGLE/ FOR FREEDOM AND PEACE.[88]
Household Cavalry Memorial Raised slate floor plaque in hedge enclosure Hyde Park 1982 or later
Commemorates the IRA bombing of 20 July 1982 near this spot, which killed four soldiers of the Blues and Royals regiment.
Holocaust Memorial
Category:Holocaust Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Holocaust Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
The Holocaust
Commemorative stones Hyde Park, east of the Dell 1983 Mark Badger Richard Seifert; Derek Lovejoy and Partners Unveiled 28 June 1983; the first public memorial in Britain to victims of the Holocaust.[89] The largest boulder bears an inscription from Lamentations (3:48) in Hebrew and English: FOR THESE I WEEP/ STREAMS OF TEARS FLOW/ FROM MY EYES/ BECAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION/ OF MY PEOPLE.
Memorial to Queen Caroline of Ansbach
Category:Queen Caroline Memorial, Hyde Park on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Queen Caroline Memorial, Hyde Park on Wikimedia Commons
Urn on pedestal Hyde Park, west of the Dell, overlooking the Serpentine 1990
Inscribed To the memory of/ QUEEN CAROLINE/ wife of George II/ for whom/ the Long Water/ and Serpentine/ were created/ between/ 1727–1731
Queen Elizabeth Gate

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Gates Hyde Park 1993 David Wynne Giuseppe Lund Unveiled 6 July 1993 by Queen Elizabeth II.[90]
Reformers’ Tree

The Reform League

Mosaic Hyde Park 2001 Harry Gray Roz Flint Depicts a tree near this site which burnt down during the Reform League Riots in 1866, the stump of which became a notice board for political demonstrations.[72]
Australian War Memorial
Category:Australian War Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Australian War Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Stone screen Hyde Park Corner

51°30′08″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5021°N 0.1515°W / 51.5021; -0.1515 (Australian War Memorial)

2003 Janet Laurence Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects A curving granite wall inscribed with the names of 24,000 Australian towns and villages and of battles in both World Wars. Water runs down parts of the wall and slabs up against it bear the country’s coat of arms and military badges.[91]
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
Category:Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain on Wikimedia Commons

Diana, Princess of Wales

Fountain Hyde Park, near West Carriage Drive and Rotten Row

51°30′17″N 0°10′17″W / 51.504647°N 0.171508°W / 51.504647; -0.171508 (Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain)

2004
Kathryn Gustafson Unveiled 6 July 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II.[92] A low, granite oval, 210 metres in circumference, with water coursing along it.[72] The fountain was plagued by blockages and injuries and had to be closed off twice for repairs in its first two years.[92]
Animals in War Memorial
Category:Animals in War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Animals in War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Stone screens with sculptures Park Lane

51°30′40″N 0°09′26″W / 51.511111°N 0.157222°W / 51.511111; -0.157222 (Animals in War Memorial)

2004 David Backhouse
Unveiled 24 November 2004 by Princess Anne. Two heavily laden mules are shown trudging towards an opening between two swelling Portland stone screens; beyond lies a grass mound with a cavorting horse and dog.[93]
New Zealand War Memorial
Category:New Zealand War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Category:New Zealand War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner on Wikimedia Commons
Stelae Hyde Park Corner

51°30′11″N 0°09′01″W / 51.5031°N 0.1504°W / 51.5031; -0.1504 (New Zealand War Memorial)

2006 Paul Dibble John Hardwick-Smith Unveiled 11 November 2006 by Queen Elizabeth II. Consists of 16 bronze X beams (or "standards"), six of which are arranged in the shape of the Southern Cross constellation.[94]
Memorial to victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
Category:7 July Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:7 July Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Stelae Hyde Park, near Park Lane 2009
Carmody Groarke Architects et al. Unveiled 7 July 2009 by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, on the fourth anniversary of the bombings. The 52 victims are commemorated by stainless steel stelae.[95]
Isis
Category:Isis sculpture (Hyde Park) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Isis sculpture (Hyde Park) on Wikimedia Commons
Sculpture Hyde Park, near West Carriage Drive, overlooking the Serpentine 2009 Simon Gudgeon
Unveiled 7 September 2009. 1,000 plaques around the base were sold to donors for personalised inscriptions at £1,000 each,[96] as a way of funding the park’s Isis Education Centre for introducing young people to the study of nature. Donated to the park by the Halcyon Gallery.[97]
Freeman Family Drinking Fountain
Category:Freeman Family Drinking Fountain on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Freeman Family Drinking Fountain on Wikimedia Commons
Drinking fountain North Carriage Drive, near Marble Arch 2009 David Harber
Unveiled 23 September 2009.[98] A stainless steel sphere decorated with petals of oxidised bronze.[99] Donated to the park by Michael Freeman, a property developer and trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation, and his wife.[100]
Still Water
Category:Still Water sculpture on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Still Water sculpture on Wikimedia Commons
Sculpture Marble Arch 2010 Nic Fiddian-Green
Unveiled 14 September 2010. The largest freestanding bronze sculpture in London at 33ft high. Replaces a previous version temporarily installed on this site; commissioned by Sir Anthony Bamford and his wife, it is now on their estate in Daylesford, Gloucestershire.[101]

Kensington

Kensington is an area of west and central London; only some parts of Kensington Gardens and South Kensington fall within the boundary of Westminster. For other works in Kensington see the list of public art in Kensington and Chelsea.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Coalbrookdale Gates Gates, cast iron South Carriage Drive

51°30′08″N 0°10′29″W / 51.5022°N 0.1748°W / 51.5022; -0.1748 (Coalbrookdale Gates)

1851 John Bell Charles Crookes Made in Coalbrookdale for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Installed at the entrance to Lancaster Walk in 1852 and moved to their present location in 1871, during construction of the Albert Memorial.[102] Grade II
Edward Jenner Statue Italian Gardens, Kensington Gardens

51°30′38″N 0°10′31″W / 51.510602°N 0.175156°W / 51.510602; -0.175156 (Edward Jenner)

1858 William Calder Marshall Sir James Pennethorne Unveiled by Prince Albert in Trafalgar Square in 1858. After pressure from anti-vaccinationists the statue was moved in 1862 to the Italian Gardens at Kensington,[103] which were conceived by Albert and laid out by Pennethorne. The rest of the sculpture in the ensemble is by John Thomas.[104] Grade II
Memorial to the Great Exhibition
Category:Memorial to the Great Exhibition on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Memorial to the Great Exhibition on Wikimedia Commons
Statue with other sculpture Kensington Gore

51°30′01″N 0°10′38″W / 51.5004°N 0.1773°W / 51.5004; -0.1773 (Memorial to the Great Exhibition)

1863 Joseph Durham Sydney Smirke Erected in June 1863 in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society in South Kensington. Moved to its present site in the early 1890s.[105] Another cast of the statue of Prince Albert is in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.[106] Grade II
Speke’s Monument
John Hanning Speke
Category:Speke's Monument (Kensington Gardens) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Speke's Monument (Kensington Gardens) on Wikimedia Commons
Obelisk Junction of Lancaster Walk and Budges Walk, Kensington Gardens

51°30′32″N 0°10′45″W / 51.5090°N 0.1792°W / 51.5090; -0.1792 (Speke Monument)

1864
Philip Hardwick A red granite obelisk, an appropriate form of commemoration for an explorer so associated with the River Nile. The pedestal inscribed IN MEMORY OF/ SPEKE/ VICTORIA[,] NYANZA/ AND THE NILE/ 1864. The phrasing avoids crediting Speke with the discovery of the Nile’s source, as this was a contentious point.[107] Grade II
Frieze of Parnassus Relief sculpture Podium of the Albert Memorial 1864–72 H. H. Armstead and J. B. Philip Sir George Gilbert Scott Depicts 169 individual architects, composers, painters, poets, and sculptors from history.[108] Grade I
Asia Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 John Henry Foley Sir George Gilbert Scott A personification of the continent, seated on an Indian elephant, removes a veil to reveal herself. Flanking her are an Indian soldier, a Persian poet, a Chinese potter and a Turkish merchant.[109] Grade I
Africa Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 William Theed Sir George Gilbert Scott A figure in Egyptian costume, representing the continent, rests on a camel. Beside her are an Arabian merchant, a figure sometimes identified as a Nubian, a female European and a tribesman.[110] Grade I
America Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 John Bell Sir George Gilbert Scott The personification of America rides a bison charging forward, guided by the sceptre of the United States, identified by her starry sash. The other figures represent Canada, Mexico and South America.[111] Grade I
Europe Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 Patrick MacDowell Sir George Gilbert Scott Europa, seated on a bull, carries an orb and sceptre signifying her continent's imperial dominance in the nineteenth century. Around her sit Britannia with a trident, France with a sword and laurel wreath, Germany with an open book and Italy with a lyre and palette.[112] Grade I
Agriculture Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 William Calder Marshall Sir George Gilbert Scott A husbandman, flanked on either side by figures representing livestock farming (a shepherd boy with a lamb and an ewe) and cereal production, looks up to a female personification of Agriculture.[113] Grade I
Commerce Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 Thomas Thornycroft Sir George Gilbert Scott The group consists of Commerce, bearing a cornucopia, a young merchant in "Anglo-Saxon" dress (said to be modelled on the sculptor′s son Hamo), an Eastern merchant and a rustic with a sack of corn.[114] Grade I
Engineering Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 John Lawlor Sir George Gilbert Scott The presiding genius of engineering directs three workers: an engineer with plan in hand, a mechanical engineer with a cogwheel, and a navvy. The two bridges over the Menai Strait are represented at the back of the group.[115] Grade I
Manufactures Sculptural group Albert Memorial 1865–71 Henry Weekes Sir George Gilbert Scott A female personification of manufactures, accompanied by a blacksmith, looks down on two child labourers, one a factory girl and the other a young potter, representing art manufactures.[116] Grade I
Mosaics
Category:Mosaics on the Albert Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Mosaics on the Albert Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Mosaics Tympana, spandrels and vault of the canopy, Albert Memorial 1866–8 John Richard Clayton with Salviati and Co. Sir George Gilbert Scott The enthroned female figures in the tympana are identified by their inscriptions as Pictura, Poesis, Sculptura and Architectura; the last displays the design of the Albert Memorial itself.[117] Grade I
Virtues Statues Flèche of the Albert Memorial 1867–70 James Redfern Sir George Gilbert Scott Personifications of the seven virtues along with an eighth, Humanity. Redfern's plaster models were electroformed in copper by Francis Skidmore’s ironworking firm in Coventry. The resulting figures were gilded after being mounted on the memorial.[118][119] Grade I
Sciences Statues Corners of the Albert Memorial 1868 c. 1868 H. H. Armstead and J. B. Philip Sir George Gilbert Scott In niches on a level with the spandrels are Armstead’s Rhetoric and Medicine and Philip’s Philosophy and Physiology. Below them, standing on column shafts, are Philip’s Geometry and Geology and Armstead’s Astronomy and Chemistry.[120] Grade I
Albert, Prince Consort Statue Albert Memorial 1871–76 John Henry Foley and Sir Thomas Brock Sir George Gilbert Scott Foley was given the commission in 1868 after the death of Carlo Marochetti. Working in the open on the model gave Foley the sickness which ultimately killed him in 1874, and the work was completed by his pupil Brock.[108] Grade I
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala Equestrian statue Queen's Gate

51°30′05″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5013°N 0.1803°W / 51.5013; -0.1803 (Lord Napier of Magdala)

1891 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Originally stood in Waterloo Place; moved to its current site in 1921. A replica of the statue to Napier in Kolkata. The boundary line with Kensington and Chelsea bisects the length of this statue.[121] In 2004 the artist Eleonora Aguiari wrapped the statue in bright red tape as a comment on Britain’s imperialist past.[122] Grade II
Physical Energy
Category:Physical Energy sculpture on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Physical Energy sculpture on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Junction of Lancaster Walk and several other walkways, Kensington Gardens

51°30′24″N 0°10′42″W / 51.5068°N 0.1783°W / 51.5068; -0.1783 (Physical Energy)

1907 (installed) George Frederic Watts
Installed 24 September 1907. Developed by Watts from his equestrian bronze Hugh Lupus (1870–84) for the Duke of Westminster. Gifted to the nation on Watts’s death in 1904, though the cast had not yet been made from the gesso model (now in the Watts Gallery). An earlier bronze cast was incorporated into the Rhodes Memorial (1906–12) in Cape Town, South Africa.[123] Grade II
Peter Pan
Category:Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens on Wikimedia Commons
Statue West of the Long Water, Kensington Gardens

51°30′31″N 0°10′34″W / 51.5086°N 0.1760°W / 51.5086; -0.1760 (Peter Pan)

1912 Sir George Frampton
Unveiled in secret on May Day 1912. The character’s creator, J. M. Barrie, commissioned the sculpture and chose the site, which is Peter’s landing point in the book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Questions were raised in Parliament about the propriety of an author promoting his work in this way.[102][124] Grade II*
Memorial to Esme Percy Drinking fountain with sculpture Palace Gate 1961 Silvia Gilley
A small bronze figure of a dog on a platform rising from the centre of a shallow circular pool.
Two Bears Drinking fountain with sculpture Junction of North Flower Walk and Budges Walk, near the Italian Gardens, Kensington Gardens

51°30′39″N 0°10′35″W / 51.510972°N 0.176251°W / 51.510972; -0.176251 (Two Bears fountain)

1970
Statue of two embracing bears originally placed in 1939 to commemorate 80 years of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. The original was stolen but was replaced with copy in 1970.[125]
St Govor’s Well Drinking fountain Off the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens 1976
Inscribed: This drinking fountain marks the site of an ancient spring, which in 1856 was named St Govor’s Well by the First Commissioner of Works, later to become Lord Llanover. Saint Govor, a sixth century hermit, was the patron saint of a church in Llanover which had eight wells in its churchyard.[126]
The Arch Sculpture North bank of the Long Water, Kensington Gardens 1979–80 Henry Moore
Presented by Moore to the nation for installation in Kensington Gardens in 1980, two years after his eightieth birthday exhibition in the nearby Serpentine Gallery. Dismantled in 1996 due to structural instability and re-erected in 2012.[127]
Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales Floor plaque, tree plaque and eight stone benches Forecourt of the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens

51°30′16″N 0°10′31″W / 51.504467°N 0.175184°W / 51.504467; -0.175184 (Memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales)

1997 Ian Hamilton Finlay Peter Coates and Andrew Whittle (lettering) Pastoral poetry is inscribed on each element of the work. The plaque at the entrance of the gallery is inscribed with the names of trees found at Kensington Gardens a quotation from the eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson.[128] Diana was a patron of the Serpentine Gallery.[129]
Trumpet (or the Tiffany Drinking Fountain) Drinking fountain Junction of the Broad Walk and Mount Walk, Kensington Gardens 2012
Ben Addy (of Moxon Architects) The winner, alongside Watering Holes in Green Park, of a RIBA-judged design competition; it was commended for its "formal clarity and elegance". [130] Of the two designs this was thought to be the more "design-led" and Watering Holes the more "art-led".[131]

Knightsbridge

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Stags Statues on gateposts Albert Gate

51°30′09″N 0°09′31″W / 51.5026°N 0.1585°W / 51.5026; -0.1585 (Stags)

before 1839 Peter Turnerelli after Francesco Bartolozzi Thomas Cubitt Formerly stood at the Piccadilly entrance to the Deputy Ranger's Lodge in Green Park; Cubitt acquired the stags prior to the building's demolition. The gates and stone piers are twentieth-century replacements for Cubitt's originals of 1844–5.[132] Grade II
The Rush of Green or The Bowater House Group Sculptural group Edinburgh Gate

51°30′09″N 0°09′42″W / 51.502565°N 0.161533°W / 51.502565; -0.161533 (Rush of Green)

1959 Sir Jacob Epstein
Unveiled April 1961. A mother, father, child and dog, driven by the sound of Pan’s pipes, rush towards Hyde Park. Epstein was adding the finishing touches to the group on the night he died.[133]
Hyde Park Gates Gates Edinburgh Gate 2010 Wendy Ramshaw
Commissioned from the artist and jeweller as part of the One Hyde Park residential development.[134]
Search for Enlightenment Sculptures One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge 2011 Simon Gudgeon
Unveiled 19 January 2012 to mark the first anniversary of One Hyde Park.[135] The developers, Candy & Candy, had previously installed a cast of the work at Riverside Walk Gardens in 2011 (see below).

Lisson Grove

Lisson Grove is an area just to the north of the city ring road, in postal districts NW1 and NW8.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Echo Sculpture Rossmore Road 2004 Charles Hadcock
[136]

Maida Vale

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
System No. 12 Sculpture Maida Vale 2006 Julian Wild EDCO Design[137] A commission by the property developers Crest Nicholson.[138]

Marylebone / Fitzrovia

Marylebone is an inner-city area of Westminster roughly defined as being bounded by Oxford Street to the south, Marylebone Road to the north, Edgware Road to the west and Great Portland Street to the east. Part of Fitzrovia, to the east of Marylebone, falls within the Westminster boundary; for other works in Fitzrovia see the List of public art in Camden.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Category:Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (Park Crescent, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (Park Crescent, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Park Crescent

51°31′23″N 0°08′46″W / 51.5230°N 0.1462°W / 51.5230; -0.1462 (Duke of Kent)

1824 Sebastian Gahagan
Unveiled 21 February 1824.[139] Grade II
Lord George Bentinck Statue Cavendish Square

51°30′58″N 0°08′42″W / 51.5162°N 0.1449°W / 51.5162; -0.1449 (Lord George Bentinck)

1851 Thomas Campbell
Erected 4 November 1851.[140] Grade II
Memorial to Charles Wesley Obelisk Garden of Rest (St Mary-le-Bone Old Churchyard) 1858
Stands close to the site where Wesley was buried in 1788.[141]
William Pitt Byrne Memorial Fountain Drinking fountain Bryanston Square

51°31′00″N 0°09′38″W / 51.5167°N 0.1605°W / 51.5167; -0.1605 (William Pitt Byrne Memorial Fountain)

1862
after a design by Julia Clara Byrne [142][143] Grade II
Sir James Hamilton Memorial Fountain Drinking Fountain Portman Square

51°30′57″N 0°09′17″W / 51.5159°N 0.1548°W / 51.5159; -0.1548 (Sir James Hamilton Memorial Fountain)

1878
Donated by Hamilton′s widow through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.[144] Grade II
Street Orderly Boy Statue Paddington Street Gardens

51°31′14″N 0°09′14″W / 51.520492°N 0.153912°W / 51.520492; -0.153912 (Street Orderly Boy)

1881 c. 1881 Donato Barcaglia
Possibly the work Barcaglia exhibited in 1881 under the title Spazzacamino ("Chimney Sweep"). Donated to Marylebone council in 1943, when it was given its present title. Orderly boys were employed by the parish councils of London to clean the streets, but were probably unheard of in Italy.[145]
Wallace fountain

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet

Drinking fountain Forecourt of the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square

51°31′02″N 0°09′10″W / 51.5173°N 0.1528°W / 51.5173; -0.1528 (Wallace Fountain)

1904 (cast of a design of 1872) Charles-Auguste Lebourg
An example of the "large model" of drinking fountain donated by Wallace to the city of Paris from 1872. This cast was erected in Shoreditch in 1904, the gift of a local councillor. Re-erected on this site after restoration in 1960.[146] Grade II*
Memorial to Quintin Hogg
Category:Memorial to Quintin Hogg (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Memorial to Quintin Hogg (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Sculptural group Portland Place

51°31′08″N 0°08′40″W / 51.5189°N 0.1444°W / 51.5189; -0.1444 (Quintin Hogg)

1906 Sir George Frampton
Unveiled 24 November 1906 on a site immediately opposite the Royal Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street; relocated in 1933.[147] It also commemorates Hogg’s wife Alice and students of the Polytechnic killed in both World Wars.[148] Grade II
War memorial Crucifix Church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street

51°30′51″N 0°09′28″W / 51.5143°N 0.157907°W / 51.5143; -0.157907 (Church of the Annunciation war memorial)

probably early 1920s
Sir Walter Tapper? No documentation for this sculpture appears to have survived.[149]
Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White
Category:Equestrian statue of Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Equestrian statue of Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Portland Place

51°31′15″N 0°08′43″W / 51.5208°N 0.1453°W / 51.5208; -0.1453 (Sir George Stuart White)

1922 John Tweed
Unveiled 19 December 1922. The statue was the focus of the Boer War Veterans Association’s annual commemoration of the Relief of Ladysmith; a wreath was laid at its foot on 28 February every year until 1970.[150] Grade II
Memorial to Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
Category:Memorial to Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Memorial to Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with bust and other sculpture Portland Place

51°31′21″N 0°08′46″W / 51.5225°N 0.1460°W / 51.5225; -0.1460 (Joseph Lister)

1922 Sir Thomas Brock; completed by Frank Arnold Wright
Unveiled 13 March 1924. Only the colossal bust of Lister was completed by Brock, who died in 1922. The group of Humanity with a nude male youth was completed by Wright, a studio assistant.[151] Grade II
John F. Kennedy Bust 1 Park Crescent

51°31′26″N 0°08′41″W / 51.523904°N 0.144651°W / 51.523904; -0.144651 (John F. Kennedy)

1965 Jacques Lipchitz
Unveiled 15 May 1965 by Robert F. Kennedy. The fruit of a fundraising campaign by the Sunday Telegraph. Lipchitz struggled with the commission as Kennedy was not alive to take sittings. Displeased with the finished work, he was absent at the unveiling.[152]
File:Oxford Circus stn Victoria motif.JPG Tile motif Tile motif Oxford Circus tube station, Victoria Line platforms 1967–9 c. 1967–9 Hans Unger
The motif depicts the convergence of the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria Lines within a circle representing Oxford Circus.[66] The platform was damaged in a fire in 1984.[153]
Sherlock Holmes motifs Tile motifs and enamel panels Baker Street tube station platforms 1983 c. 1983 Michael Douglas and Pamela Moreton
The scheme consists of motifs of Sherlock Holmes’s head in profile and murals depicting scenes from his adventures.[55] The designs were by Douglas, the over-glaze printing by Moreton.[154]
Mother and Child Sculptural group Outside the Portland Hospital for Women and Children, Great Portland Street 1983 David Norris
Mosaics and enamel panels Mosaics and enamel panels Oxford Circus tube station, Central and Bakerloo line platforms 1983; 1985 Nicholas Munro
Munro, a student at the Royal College of Art, based the designs on his (not entirely favourable) impressions of the station. The designs on the Central Line platforms refer to the game of Snakes and Ladders and those on the Bakerloo line depict commuters in a maze.[153]
Arch motifs Enamel panels Marble Arch tube station platforms 1985 Annabel Grey
A series of sixteen colourful triumphal arch designs enamelled onto steel sheets. Each arch is made of nine separate steel sheets which had to be fired about ten times at an enamel sign factory in Sydenham.[155]
The Window Cleaner
Category:Window Cleaner (statue in London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Window Cleaner (statue in London) on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Capital House, Chapel Street

51°31′10″N 0°10′02″W / 51.519534°N 0.167355°W / 51.519534; -0.167355 (The Window Cleaner)

1990 Allan Sly
Unveiled 30 November 1990. Sly’s brief was "for a figure expressing a wry sense of humour"; thus the window cleaner looks up at the 15 or so storeys of Capital House, for which his small ladder will be of little use.[156]
Cristos Fountain with sculpture St Christopher's Place 1993 William Pye
Unveiled 13 July 1993. The piece refers obliquely to the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child across a river; here the water, in the sculptor’s words, "becomes the bridge itself", coursing down the arches of an open bronze structure into four small basins at the bottom and thence into grills in the pavement.[157]
Memorial to Raoul Wallenberg Statue with screen Great Cumberland Place

51°30′54″N 0°09′35″W / 51.514969°N 0.159637°W / 51.514969; -0.159637 (Raoul Wallenberg)

1997 Philip Jackson
Unveiled 26 February 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II. Wallenberg stands in front of a screen formed from stacked passports; his head is turned towards the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Another cast of the memorial is in Buenos Aires.[158]
Sherlock Holmes Statue Marylebone Road, outside Baker Street tub station 1999 John Doubleday
Unveiled 23 September 1999. No site was available on Baker Street itself, but the Abbey National building society, whose head office was on the putative site of No. 221B, agreed to fund the statue.[159]
Under Circumstances Sculpture Outside 20 Manchester Square 1999 Tony Cragg
General Władysław Sikorski
Category:Statue of General Władysław Sikorski (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of General Władysław Sikorski (Portland Place, London) on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Outside the Polish Embassy, Portland Place 2000 Faith Winter Michael Goss Unveiled 24 September 2003 by the Duke of Kent. Tomasz Zamoyski, a prominent Polish expatriate, first conceived the idea for the statue to complement the existing statues of Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle in London. The British and Polish governments each gave £5,000 towards the cost.[160]
Thames North and Thames South Sculptures Old Marylebone Road 2001 Hamish Black
Untitled Sculptures Forecourt of the New Cavendish Street campus of the University of Westminster 2001–4 Ben Joiner Rock Townsend
Nexus Sculpture In front of York House, Seymour Street 2007 Robert Orchardson

Mayfair

Mayfair is the area south of Marylebone, between Hyde Park and Soho.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
William Pitt the Younger Statue Hanover Square

51°30′49″N 0°08′37″W / 51.5136°N 0.1437°W / 51.5136; -0.1437 (Pitt the Younger)

1831 Sir Francis Chantrey
Unveiled 22 August 1831; there was an attempt by reformist opponents of Pitt to pull the statue down on the morning of the unveiling. Concerns for the work’s security might have been the reason for the unusually tall plinth.[161] Grade II
Fountain Nymph Fountain with sculpture Berkeley Square

51°30′33″N 0°08′43″W / 51.509116°N 0.145293°W / 51.509116; -0.145293 (Fountain Nymph)

1867 Alexander Munro
The pedestal inscribed THE GIFT/ OF/ HENRY 3RD MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. This Fountain Nymph was Munro’s second treatment of the theme after that for the memorial to Herbert Ingram in Boston, Lincolnshire (1862–3). He also produced a smaller marble version of the Berkeley Square Nymph, which was installed in a public garden in Oxford in around 1970.[162] Grade II
Drinking fountain Fountain with sculpture Mount Street Gardens

51°30′35″N 0°08′57″W / 51.509719°N 0.149303°W / 51.509719; -0.149303 (Drinking fountain)

1892
Sir Ernest George Inscribed THIS FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY HENRY LOFTS IN/ RECOGNITION OF MANY HAPPY YEARS IN MOUNT STREET/ SIR ERNEST GEORGE. RA FECIT 1892. Lofts was an estate agent, and George an architect, to the Grosvenor estate. Lofts’s office was in Mount Street, which was partly rebuilt by his firm with George as architect.[163] Grade II
Sir Joshua Reynolds Statue Burlington House

51°30′32″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5089°N 0.1394°W / 51.5089; -0.1394 (Joshua Reynolds)

1931 Alfred Drury Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Unveiled 12 December 1931.[164] Drury was awarded the commission in 1917, but was too preoccupied with war memorials in the following years to proceed with the work. In 1926 he had to start over with a new composition after his studio assistant failed to keep the first clay figure moist every night, which had resulted in its disintegration.[165] Grade II
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Statue Grosvenor Square

51°30′42″N 0°09′06″W / 51.5118°N 0.1516°W / 51.5118; -0.1516 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

1948 Sir William Reid Dick B. W. L. Gallannaugh; Mary Jenks (lettering) Unveiled 12 April 1948 by Eleanor Roosevelt. The standing pose is intended to recall one of the moments when Roosevelt took the oath of office; he usually used a wheelchair due to his paralytic illness. Winston Churchill, who first proposed the statue, had hoped for a seated depiction of the President as a pendant to the statue of Abraham Lincoln on Parliament Square.[166] Grade II
Crouching Figure Fountain with sculpture Carlos Place 1973 Emilio Greco Luca Clavarino Unveiled 20 November 1987.[167]
Horse and Rider Sculpture Dover Street 1974–5 Dame Elisabeth Frink
Frink's catalogue raisonné notes that these figures personify "the most desirable masculine qualities", namely "speed, resilience[,] intelligence, loyalty, affection, courage, sensitivity, beauty and free sensuality". Another cast was erected in Winchester High Street in 1983.[168]
RAF Eagle Squadrons Memorial Memorial with sculpture Grosvenor Square 1986 Dame Elisabeth Frink T. A. Kempster Unveiled 12 May 1986.[169]
Sitting Couple Sculptural group Berkeley Square 1989 Lynn Chadwick
Dwight David Eisenhower Statue Grosvenor Square

51°30′42″N 0°09′10″W / 51.51165°N 0.152772°W / 51.51165; -0.152772 (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

1969 Robert Dean Mayell Hart and Associates Unveiled 23 January 1989. A gift from the people of Kansas City, Missouri. Other casts of this statue are at West Point Military Academy and Eisenhower’s burial place in Abilene, Kansas.[170]
Ducking Pond Row Fountain Fountain with sculpture Hanover Square

51°30′50″N 0°08′38″W / 51.513761°N 0.143785°W / 51.513761; -0.143785 (Ducking Pond Row Fountain)

1988 Paul Cooper
Originally erected in Bond Street.[171]
Taichi Spin Kick Sculpture St Andrew's Building, 17 Old Park Lane 1991 Ju Ming
Allies
Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Category:Allies byLawrence Holofcener on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Allies byLawrence Holofcener on Wikimedia Commons
Sculptural group New Bond Street 1995 Lawrence Holofcener
Unveiled 2 May 1995, shortly before the 50th anniversary of VE Day, by Princess Margaret. The sculptor’s wife gifted the group to the nation, but the Royal Fine Art Commission ruled out a location in a central London park. The Bond Street Association then expressed an interest in the work.[172]
Pink Lady Hare Dancing with Big Brown Dog Sculptural group Berkeley Square 2000 Sophie Ryder
Salmon Leap Sculpture Outside 40 Berkeley Square 2004 Michael Cooper
Refers to the Tyburn which once ran nearby.[173]
Granite Sculptures Sculptures Curzon Square 2004 John Aiken Rolfe Judd The bench-like sculptures are formed from black granite from Zimbabwe and silver-grey granite from Portugal spliced together.[174]
Aspiration Sculpture In front of Leconfield House, Curzon Street 2006 John Brown
Silence

Sir Simon Milton

Water feature Mount Street / Carlos Place 2011
Tadao Ando et al. A raised granite-edged pool into which two trees are set, and which emits clouds of water vapour for fifteen seconds every fifteen minutes.[175] Jointly commissioned by the Grosvenor Estate and the Connaught Hotel; Blair Associates Architects and the Building Design Partnership were also involved the project.[176]
Shop ’til You Drop Graffiti Barlow Lane 2011 Banksy
Ronald Reagan Statue Grosvenor Square 2011 Chas Fagan
Unveiled 4 July 2011. Westminster City Council's rule that a person may only be commemorated by a statue 10 years after their death was waived so that Margaret Thatcher could perform the unveiling,[177] but she proved too unwell to attend the ceremony. A fragment of the Berlin Wall is incorporated into the pedestal.[178]

Millbank

Millbank is a district by the River Thames, east of Pimlico. It is the location of Tate Britain (formerly the Tate Gallery).

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
The Rescue of Andromeda Sculptural group Outside Tate Britain 1893 Henry Charles Fehr
A plaster model was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1893 and cast in bronze, probably at the recommendation of Frederic, Lord Leighton. This was bought for the Tate the following year under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest. Initially displayed inside the gallery, it was moved to its present site in 1911, where the sculptor felt it was "swamped by heavy masonry".[179]
Sir John Everett Millais
Category:Statue of John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock on Wikimedia Commons
Statue John Islip Street, rear of Tate Britain 1904 Sir Thomas Brock
Originally stood by the entrance of the gallery. By 1961 Sir Norman Reid, the Tate’s director, considered the statue to have a "positively harmful" effect and attempted have it replaced by Rodin’s sculpture of John the Baptist. In 2000 the statue was moved to the rear of the building after ownership was transferred from English Heritage to the Tate.[180] Grade II
The Death Of Dirce Sculptural group Outside Tate Britain 1906 Sir Charles Bennett Lawes-Wittewronge
Based on the Farnese Bull, a classical sculpture depicting the same subject. Presented to the Tate by the sculptor’s widow in 1911. A second, larger version in marble is in the grounds of Rothamsted Manor, the sculptor’s family estate in Hertfordshire.[181]
Locking Piece
Category:Locking Piece, Millbank on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Locking Piece, Millbank on Wikimedia Commons
Sculpture Riverside Walk Gardens

51°29′21″N 0°07′40″W / 51.489055°N 0.127813°W / 51.489055; -0.127813 (Locking Piece)

1963–4 Henry Moore
Unveiled 19 July 1968. Moore had never been satisfied with the setting of the piece on a multi-faceted plinth by a fountain; these features were removed and the gardens re-landscaped in 2003.[182] Grade II
Jeté
Category:Jeté by Enzo Plazzotta on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Jeté by Enzo Plazzotta on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Millbank, south of Tate Britain 1975 Enzo Plazzotta
Unveiled 16 July 1985. Represents the dancer David Wall making his entrance in the ballet La Bayadère.[183]
Big 4 Sculpture Channel 4 headquarters, Horseferry Road 2007
Freestate and Atelier One Unveiled 16 October 2007, for Channel 4’s 25th anniversary. The separate elements of the sculpture when seen from the right angle form the number 4, in the manner of the channel’s idents. The bare steel structure was designed to be adapted by artists who would create their own “skins”, thus constantly renewing the work.[184]
Search for Enlightenment Sculptures Riverside Walk Gardens 2011 Simon Gudgeon
Unveiled 9 October 2011.[185] Two large, bronze heads in profile, shallow and hollowed-out with their faces upturned to the sky. The sculptor wished to comment on "the narrowness of consciousness, the vastness of time and the transience of humanity".[186] (See also another casting above.)

Paddington

Paddington is the area west of Marylebone, in the postal district W2.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Sarah Siddons Statue Paddington Green

51°31′13″N 0°10′27″W / 51.5203°N 0.1741°W / 51.5203; -0.1741 (Sarah Siddons)

1897 Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud
Unveiled 14 June 1897 by Sir Henry Irving.[187] Modelled after Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783), now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Siddons attended St Mary’s Church on the Green and is buried in the churchyard, near her statue.[188] Grade II
Great Western Railway War Memorial
Category:GWR War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:GWR War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Stone screen with statue Facing Platform 1, Paddington station 1922 Charles Sargeant Jagger Thomas S. Tait Unveiled 11 November 1922 (Armistice Day) by Viscount Churchill.[189] The figure of a soldier stands reading a letter from home in front of a panel of black marble, suggesting the entrance to a trench dugout.[190] Grade I
(with station)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Category:Isambard Kingdom Brunel statue, London Paddington station on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Isambard Kingdom Brunel statue, London Paddington station on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Paddington station 1982 John Doubleday
Unveiled 26 May 1982. One of two statues of Brunel commissioned by the Bristol & West building society; its companion, a standing figure, was unveiled in Bristol the same day.[191] Originally stood on the main concourse at the entrance to the Underground; relocated in 1998.[192]
The Messenger Statue In front of St Mary's Hospital, South Wharf Road 1993 Allan Sly
Walking Man and Standing Man Statues PaddingtonCentral 1998 and 2000 Sean Henry
[193]
Paddington Bear Statue Paddington station 2000 Marcus Cornish
Unveiled 24 February 2000 by Michael Bond, the character’s creator.[194] Represents his first appearance in A Bear Called Paddington (1958), sitting on a battered suitcase with a label round his neck reading "Please look after this bear. Thank you."[195]
The Family Sculptural group PaddingtonCentral (Sheldon Square) 2001 Jon Buck
[193]
Untitled (Yellow) Sculpture PaddingtonCentral (One Kingdom Street) 2001 Stephen Gontarski
Made of glass fibre painted bright yellow and lacquered, the sculpture is intended to invite a "corporeal reception by the public" and to "create a heart in the midst of an urban setting."[193][196]
Billy Bob & Mishke Sculpture PaddingtonCentral 2008 Gary Webb
Pendant sculptures, located in water features at the extreme edge of the PaddingtonCentral development, of metal frameworks which support "blobs" of steel, painted in bright colours.[193][196]
Europea 1 and Europea 2 Sculptures PaddingtonCentral 2008 John Aiken
Twin sculptures fashioned from Portuguese silver-grey granite with coloured enamel panels attached.[193][196]
Mary Seacole, Alan Turing and Michael Bond Statues Near St Mary’s Hospital 2013
Three two-dimensional steel statues of notable people who lived (or in Bond’s case, still live) in Paddington, as voted for by local residents. From the Portrait Bench series of similar sculptures, commissioned by the charity Sustrans to stand along new cycling routes.[197]

Pimlico

Pimlico is a small area between the River Thames and Belgravia, bounded by Vauxhall Bridge Road to the east and the former Grosvenor Canal in the west.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist / Designer Architect Notes Listing
William Huskisson Statue Pimlico Gardens 1836 John Gibson
Commissioned for a site outside the Custom House in Liverpool. This was Gibson’s second version of the statue originally in Huskisson’s mausoleum in St James Cemetery, Liverpool (now in the Walker Art Gallery).[198] Moved to the Royal Exchange before coming to the present site in 1915.[199]
War memorial Crucifix St Saviour's church, Lupus Street

51°29′19″N 0°08′08″W / 51.488547°N 0.135468°W / 51.488547; -0.135468 (St Saviour's War Memorial)

after 1918
Commemorates parishioners who died in both World Wars.[200]
Spot motif Tiled pattern Pimlico tube station platforms 1972 c. 1972 Peter Sedgeley
Cooling tower panels Sculpture Ventilation shaft above Pimlico tube station 1979–82 Eduardo Paolozzi
Thomas Cubitt
Category:Statue of Thomas Cubitt, Pimlico on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Thomas Cubitt, Pimlico on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Denbigh Street 1994–5 William Fawke
The site is adjacent to that of the workshops used by Cubitt in the building of Pimlico. He is depicted with a yardstick in hand, selecting a brick to measure from underneath the tarpaulin. Another cast of the statue is in Dorking, Surrey.[201]
The Helmsman Sculpture Pimlico Gardens 1996 André Wallace
Wallace is primarily interested in subjects involving journeys or transportation. This sculpture, of a figure at the helm of a boat, was the winning entry in a competition between five artists; it was felt to reflect the area’s maritime history.[202]
Roller Skater Sculpture Vauxhall Bridge Road 2010 André Wallace
The artist wished to make a sculpture "that would be positive and dynamic and reflect the youth and vitality of an urban street."[203]

Regent’s Park

Regent's Park is one of London's royal park, located partly in the Borough of Camden as well as the City of Westminster.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Eagle Statue Queen Mary’s Gardens, near the Island Rock Garden

51°31′36″N 0°09′11″W / 51.5266°N 0.1530°W / 51.5266; -0.1530 (Eagle)

early 19th century Anonymous; thought to be Japanese
Naturalistic bronze statue of an eagle, with wings outspread, landing on a rock. Presented to the Royal Parks in 1974.[204] Grade II
Lion Tazza
Category:Lion Tazza (Regent's Park) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Lion Tazza (Regent's Park) on Wikimedia Commons
Stone bowl supported by sculpted winged lions Avenue Gardens

51°31′36″N 0°08′53″W / 51.526713°N 0.148176°W / 51.526713; -0.148176 (Lion Tazza)

1863 Austin and Seeley
[205]
Readymoney Drinking Fountain
Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney
Category:Fountain of Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Fountain of Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney on Wikimedia Commons
Drinking fountain Broad Walk

51°31′58″N 0°09′02″W / 51.532761°N 0.150676°W / 51.532761; -0.150676 (Readymoney Drinking Fountain)

1869
A gift from the Indian industrialist, in thanks for the protection of the Parsis under British rule. Unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck.[205]
Hylas and the Nymph Fountain with sculptural group St John’s Lodge garden

51°31′45″N 0°09′06″W / 51.5292°N 0.1516°W / 51.5292; -0.1516 (Hylas and the Nymph)

1894 Henry Alfred Pegram
Originally titled The Bather. Part of the formal "Dutch" or "Old English" garden in front of St John’s Lodge. Presented to the park in 1933.[206] Grade II
Negro Fighting a Lioness Sculptural group London Zoo 1906 (erected) Henri Teixeira de Mattos
Plaque inscribed This statue by the/ sculptor Henri Teixeira/ de Mattos (1856–1908)/ was presented to the/ Zoological Society of/ London by J.B. Wolff/ in 1906.[207]
The Lost Bow Sculpture Queen Mary’s Gardens

51°31′38″N 0°09′10″W / 51.5273°N 0.1527°W / 51.5273; -0.1527 (The Lost Bow)

1913 Albert Hodge
Ornamental sculpture of a putto sitting astride a vulture, believed to have been commissioned by the artist Sigismund Goetze for his home at Grove Lodge (now Grove House), Regent’s Park. Presented to Queen Mary’s Gardens in 1939.[208] Grade II
A Mighty Hunter Sculpture Queen Mary’s Gardens

51°31′39″N 0°09′09″W / 51.5275°N 0.1524°W / 51.5275; -0.1524 (A Mighty Hunter)

1913 Albert Hodge
Bronze sculpture of a putto wrestling with a duck, a pendant to The Lost Bow.[209] (See above.) Grade II
War memorial War memorial Outside the Butterfly House, London Zoo 1919
John James Joass Based on a medieval Lanterne des Morts, a memorial to the dead in La Souterraine in the Creuse Valley, France. Joass was also the co-designer, with Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, of the Zoo’s Mappin Terraces, built 1913–14.[210]
The Goatherd’s Daughter

Gertrude and Harold Baillie Weaver

Statue St John’s Lodge garden

51°31′46″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5294°N 0.1515°W / 51.5294; -0.1515 (The Goatherd’s Daughter)

1922 Charles Leonard Hartwell
The statue was first exhibited in 1929, when it won the silver medal of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. It was erected on this site in 1931 by the National Council for Animal Welfare, in honour of its founders.[211] Grade II
Jubilee Gates Gates Queen Mary’s Gardens

51°31′42″N 0°09′05″W / 51.528275°N 0.15129°W / 51.528275; -0.15129 (Jubilee Gates)

1935
The gates commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V and the official opening of Queen Mary's Gardens.[205] Grade II
Boy and Frog Fountain with sculpture Queen Mary’s Gardens

51°31′38″N 0°09′16″W / 51.5273°N 0.1545°W / 51.5273; -0.1545 (Boy and Frog)

1936 Sir William Reid Dick
A gift of Sigismund Goetze.[205] Grade II
Triton
Category:Triton Fountain, Regent's Park on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Triton Fountain, Regent's Park on Wikimedia Commons
Sigismund Goetze
Fountain with sculptural group Queen Mary’s Gardens

51°31′44″N 0°09′11″W / 51.528933°N 0.153138°W / 51.528933; -0.153138 (Triton Fountain)

1936 William McMillan
Due to the Second World War the fountain was not installed until 1950, when it was awarded a gold medal award for the best sculpture exhibited in London that year.[212] The site was formerly occupied by a large conservatory belonging to the Royal Botanic Society, demolished in 1931.[205] Grade II
Bear Cub
Winnipeg the Bear
Statue London Zoo 1981 Lorne McKean
Unveiled by Christopher Robin Milne in September 1981, the statue commemorates Winnie-the-Pooh’s namesake, a back bear cub which lived in London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934.[213]
Guy the Gorilla Statue London Zoo

51°32′09″N 0°09′12″W / 51.535725°N 0.153253°W / 51.535725; -0.153253 (Guy the Gorilla)

1982 William Timym
[210]
Globe Sundial Sundial London Zoo 1989 Wendy Taylor
[210]
Ambika Paul Memorial Fountain Fountain with sculpture Ambika Paul Children’s Zoo, London Zoo 1994 Shenda Amery
Harry Colebourn and Winnipeg the Bear Sculptural group Children’s Zoo (behind café), London Zoo 1995 (unveiled) Bill Epp
This second memorial to the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh shows the bear with the Canadian soldier who donated her to the Zoo.[214] A cast of a group originally unveiled in Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1992. The model for the figure of Colebourn was his son, Fred.[215]
Plaque commemorating restoration of gardens Plaque in pavement Broad Walk 1996 Richard Kindersley
Inscribed THIS PLAQUE CELEBRATES THE RESTORATION OF THE AVENUE GARDENS BETWEEN 1993 & 1996. THESE GARDENS WERE DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD, 1794–1881 & CREATED BETWEEN 1863 & 1865[216]
Unseen Prey Sculptural group London Zoo c. 1999 Shenda Amery
Dung Beetles Sculptural group Millennium Conservation Centre, London Zoo 1999 Wendy Taylor
[217]
Swraj Paul, Baron Paul Bust Ambika Paul Children’s Zoo, London Zoo 2002 (erected) Sadiq
[218]
Clock Animated clock Blackburn Pavilion (Tropical Aviary), London Zoo 2008 Tim Hunkin
The result of a commission on the theme of Victorian attitudes towards nature, Hunkin’s clock takes inspiration from the work of the cartoonist Saul Steinberg and Rowland Emett’s Guinness Clock for the 1951 Festival of Britain.[219]

St. James’s

St. James’s is the area bounded to the north by Piccadilly, to the west by Green Park, to the south by The Mall and St. James’s Park and to the east by the Haymarket.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
William III Equestrian statue St. James's Square

51°30′26″N 0°08′07″W / 51.507221°N 0.135311°W / 51.507221; -0.135311 (William III)

1807 John Bacon, Jr.
Very likely to a design of the sculptor’s father John Bacon, Senior, dating to 1794. The design is probably inspired by John Michael Rysbrack’s equestrian statue of William III in Queen Square, Bristol.[220] Grade I
Duke of York Column
Category:Duke of York Column on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Duke of York Column on Wikimedia Commons

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Statue on column Waterloo Place

51°30′23″N 0°07′54″W / 51.506331°N 0.131761°W / 51.506331; -0.131761 (Duke of York Column)

1832–4 Sir Richard Westmacott Benjamin Dean Wyatt The Duke, in his Garter robes, stands atop an unfluted Doric column. Westmacott intended for the statue to face north towards Regent Street, but William IV, on the Duke of Wellington’s advice, requested that it face the Horse Guards to the south. The column was completed in 1832 and the statue raised on 3 April 1834.[221] Grade I
George III Equestrian statue Cockspur Street, facing down Pall Mall

51°30′28″N 0°07′50″W / 51.5078°N 0.1305°W / 51.5078; -0.1305 (George III)

1836 c. 1836 Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Unveiled 3 August 1836 by the Duke of Cumberland. After the King’s death in 1820 Wyatt designed an ambitious multi-figure monument, but there were too few subscriptions for the project to go ahead. Fund-raising recommenced in 1831. The statue came to be nicknamed "the Pigtail and Pump-head".[222] Grade II

Buckingham Palace Gates Gates and piers with sculptural decoration Forecourt of Buckingham Palace

51°30′05″N 0°08′29″W / 51.5015°N 0.1413°W / 51.5015; -0.1413 (Buckingham Palace Gates)

1850–1 (N)
1904–8 (S)
1911 (centre)
John Thomas, W. S. Frith, Walter Gilbert, Louis Weingartner Decimus Burton, Sir Aston Webb Burton's gates were installed after the removal of Marble Arch, formerly the ceremonial entrance to the palace. Webb commissioned the Bromsgrove Guild to produce replicas with minor variations, which were erected on the southern side. The central gates were added at the request of George V.[223] Grade I
The Guards Crimean War Memorial
Category:Crimean War MEmorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Crimean War MEmorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Waterloo Place

51°30′27″N 0°07′58″W / 51.5074°N 0.1327°W / 51.5074; -0.1327 (The Guards Crimean War Memorial)

1858–62 John Bell
The figures at the base of the plinth are of a Grenadier, a Fusilier and a Coldstream Guard; the crowning figure represents Honour. They are cast in bronze from cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol.[224] Grade II
The Boy Drinking fountain with sculpture St. James's Park

51°30′04″N 0°08′03″W / 51.5012°N 0.1341°W / 51.5012; -0.1341 (The Boy Drinking Fountain)

1863 Charles Henry Mabey for Robert Jackson & Son
A marble figure of a boy naked to the waist, set on a granite plinth with marble panels. The badly worn and much vandalised sculpture was repaired in 1993 and unveiled by Douglas Hurd.[225] Grade II
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′23″N 0°07′56″W / 51.5064°N 0.1322°W / 51.5064; -0.1322 (Sir John Franklin)

1866 Matthew Noble
Unveiled 15 November 1866. Franklin is depicted in the act of announcing the discovery of the Northwest Passage to his officers and crew. At the back of the pedestal is a map of the Arctic, showing the positions of the boats and crews at the moment of Franklin's burial.[226] Grade II
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′26″N 0°07′58″W / 51.5073°N 0.1327°W / 51.5073; -0.1327 (Lord Herbert of Lea)

1867 John Henry Foley Thomas Henry Wyatt Unveiled 1 June 1867 in Pall Mall. Moved to the courtyard of the War Office, Whitehall, in 1906. In 1915 it was moved to Waterloo Place to become a pendant sculpture to that of Florence Nightingale, which was given a matching pedestal.[227] Grade II
Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Statue and other sculpture Waterloo Place

51°30′24″N 0°07′54″W / 51.5067°N 0.1317°W / 51.5067; -0.1317 (Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde)

1867 Carlo Marochetti
The statue stands on a cylindrical granite pedestal; on a lower base projecting from this is a group of Victory seated on a lion.[228] Originally intended for Horse Guards Parade, but when the pedestal was installed there the Admiralty complained that it was blocking their entrance, and the site was changed.[229] Grade II
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′23″N 0°07′56″W / 51.5065°N 0.1323°W / 51.5065; -0.1323 (John Fox Burgoyne)

1877 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Originally intended to stand outside the War Office in Whitehall. Boehm incorporated a tiny group of Saint George and the Dragon by his pupil Alfred Gilbert at the end of Burgoyne’s baton.[230] Grade II
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′24″N 0°07′54″W / 51.5066°N 0.1316°W / 51.5066; -0.1316 (Lord Lawrence)

1885 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
A replacement for Boehm’s statue of 1882, which was heavily criticised for its realism. This was presented to Lahore, where it proved equally controversial; in 1962 it was brought to Derry and erected in front of Foyle College, Lawrence's old school.[231] Grade II
Queen Victoria Statue In front of 16 Carlton House Terrace 1898–1902 c. 1898–1902 Sir Thomas Brock
Unveiled 5 February 1902 by Lord Salisbury in the Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly; sold in 1940. Moved to the present site in 1971, when this building was being used as an annexe of the National Portrait Gallery.[232]
Victoria Memorial
Category:Victoria Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Victoria Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons

Queen Victoria

Memorial with sculpture The Mall

51°30′07″N 0°08′26″W / 51.501855°N 0.140619°W / 51.501855; -0.140619 (Victoria Memorial)

1901–24 Sir Thomas Brock
Unveiled 16 May 1911 by George V. Brock was adamant that he, and not Aston Webb, was responsible for the architectural design of the memorial. Despite never having travelled to France, he produced a work that was convincingly abreast with belle époque fashion.[233] Grade I
Royal Marines
Memorial
Category:Royal Marines Memorial, The Mall on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Royal Marines Memorial, The Mall on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture The Mall

51°30′24″N 0°07′46″W / 51.5066°N 0.1295°W / 51.5066; -0.1295 (Royal Marines Memorial)

1903 Adrian Jones Sir Thomas Graham Jackson Unveiled 25 April 1903 by the Prince of Wales, on a site now occupied by the Admiralty Citadel. Removed in 1940 and reinstalled on the Mall in 1948.[234] Grade II
Australia Gate Piers with sculptural decoration Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens

51°30′04″N 0°08′24″W / 51.501153°N 0.139915°W / 51.501153; -0.139915 (Australia Gate)

1905–8 Francis Derwent Wood Sir Aston Webb The nude boys on the two piers hold the 1908 coat of arms of Australia; the western boy is accompanied by a kangaroo and the eastern by a Merino ram.[235] Grade I
Canada Gate
Category:Canada Gate and Canada Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Canada Gate and Canada Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Gates and piers with sculptural decoration Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens

51°30′09″N 0°08′29″W / 51.5025°N 0.1414°W / 51.5025; -0.1414 (Canada Gate)

1905–8 Henry Alfred Pegram Sir Aston Webb The nude boys on the outermost piers hold the 1868 arms of Canada and have attributes referring to fishing and agriculture. The gates were produced by the Bromsgrove Guild.[236] Grade I
South Africa Gate Piers with sculptural decoration Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens

51°30′08″N 0°08′22″W / 51.502295°N 0.139537°W / 51.502295; -0.139537 (South Africa Gate)

1905–8 Alfred Drury Sir Aston Webb The nude boy on the northern pier, representing South Africa, holds a shield with the arms of the Cape Colony; that on the southern, representing West Africa, holds a blank shield.[236] Grade I
Royal Artillery
Boer War Memorial
Category:Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture The Mall

51°30′19″N 0°07′52″W / 51.5054°N 0.1310°W / 51.5054; -0.1310 (Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial)

1910 William Robert Colton Sir Aston Webb Unveiled 20 July 1910 by the Duke of Connaught. Colton was given the commission after Sir Thomas Brock turned it down due to the pressure of other commitments. Few were pleased with the resulting memorial.[237] Grade II
Captain James Cook
Category:Statue of Captain Cook, The Mall on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Captain Cook, The Mall on Wikimedia Commons
Statue The Mall

51°30′23″N 0°07′45″W / 51.5063°N 0.1292°W / 51.5063; -0.1292 (Captain Cook)

1914 Sir Thomas Brock probably Sir Aston Webb Unveiled 7 July 1914 by the Duke of Connaught. The idea for the memorial was first proposed by the former Prime Minister of New South Wales, who wrote to The Times complaining of the lack of a statue to Cook in London.[238] Grade II
Florence Nightingale
Category:Statue of Florence Nightingale, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Florence Nightingale, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′26″N 0°07′57″W / 51.5073°N 0.1326°W / 51.5073; -0.1326 (Florence Nightingale)

1915 Arthur George Walker Thomas Henry Wyatt Unveiled 24 February 1915. The last of a group of three memorials with a Crimean theme on Waterloo Place. The pedestal is a copy of that of the statue of Lord Herbert, and is decorated with bronze reliefs of scenes from Nightingale’s life.[239] Grade II
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Category:Statue of Robert Falcon Scott, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Robert Falcon Scott, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′25″N 0°07′55″W / 51.5069°N 0.1319°W / 51.5069; -0.1319 (Robert Falcon Scott)

1915 Lady Kathleen Scott
Unveiled 5 November 1915 by Arthur Balfour. The sculptor was Captain Scott’s widow; she produced a marble replica for Christchurch, New Zealand.[240] Grade II
Edward VII
Category:King Edward VII Statue, Waterloo Place, London SW1 on Wikimedia Commons
Category:King Edward VII Statue, Waterloo Place, London SW1 on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Waterloo Place

51°30′24″N 0°07′56″W / 51.5067°N 0.1321°W / 51.5067; -0.1321 (Edward VII)

1921 Sir Bertram Mackennal Sir Edwin Lutyens Unveiled 20 July 1921 by George V. Edward VII is depicted in Field Marshal’s uniform. Stands on the site previously occupied by the equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, now at Queen’s Gate, Kensington.[241] Grade II
Army and Navy Club War Memorial Statue Outside the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall 1923–6 Basil Gotto
Originally stood in the Victorian clubhouse, which was demolished around 1962. The memorial went into storage at the Ministry of Defence. In 2001 it was returned to the club and displayed in a glass case outside its 1960s building.[242]
Mary of Nazareth Statue St James’s churchyard, Piccadilly 1925 c. 1925 Charles Wheeler
The sculpture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1925, was offered to St James’s by Wheeler’s family after his death. It was erected on this site in 1975.[243]
Peace Statue St James’s churchyard, Piccadilly 1926 c. 1926 Alfred Frank Hardiman
As Hardiman died in 1949 leaving his Southwood Memorial for the churchyard unfinished, the sculptor’s widow gave this earlier work to St James’s as a substitute and as a memorial to her husband.[244]
Memorial to Queen Alexandra Memorial with sculpture Marlborough Road

51°30′17″N 0°08′12″W / 51.5047°N 0.1368°W / 51.5047; -0.1368 (Queen Alexandra Memorial)

1926–32 Sir Alfred Gilbert
Unveiled 8 June 1932 by George V. Despite Gilbert’s earlier disgrace with the royal family after failing to complete the Duke of Clarence’s tomb, the Queen had expressed a wish that he sculpt her memorial should he outlive her. Gilbert, aged 78, was knighted the day after its unveiling.[245] Grade I
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Statue Carlton House Terrace

51°30′22″N 0°08′00″W / 51.5060°N 0.1333°W / 51.5060; -0.1333 (Lord Curzon)

1930 Sir Bertram Mackennal
Unveiled 20 March 1931 by Stanley Baldwin. The statue stands opposite the viceroy’s former house. Mackennal had previously sculpted Curzon’s tomb effigy in All Saints Church, Kedleston.[246] Grade II
Memorial to Julius Salter Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood Memorial with sculpture St James’s churchyard, Piccadilly

51°30′31″N 0°08′14″W / 51.5086°N 0.1371°W / 51.5086; -0.1371 (Viscount Southwood Memorial)

1948 Alfred Frank Hardiman Sir Alfred Richardson At the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance financed by Southwood, a newspaper magnate. Putti on dolphins and playing musical instruments refer to his charitable work for the children’s hospital at Great Ormond Street.[247] Grade II
George VI
Category:George VI and Queen Elizabeth Monument on Wikimedia Commons
Category:George VI and Queen Elizabeth Monument on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Carlton House Terrace

51°30′19″N 0°08′02″W / 51.505185°N 0.133764°W / 51.505185; -0.133764 (George VI)

1955 William McMillan Louis de Soissons (1955)

Donald Insall (2008)

Unveiled 21 October 1955 by Queen Elizabeth II. The statue was moved forward from its original setting in 2008 to form part of a joint memorial with the King’s wife, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.[248] Grade II
Memorial to Queen Mary Plaque with relief sculpture Junction of The Mall and Marlborough Road

51°30′17″N 0°08′08″W / 51.504645°N 0.135532°W / 51.504645; -0.135532 (Mary of Teck)

1967 Sir William Reid Dick Alan Reynolds Stone (lettering) Unveiled 7 June 1967. The profile portrait is a bronze replica of the memorial to Queen Mary at St Mary Magdalene’s church, Sandringham, Norfolk.[249]
Memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher Stele St. James’s Square 1985
Unveiled 1 February 1985 by Margaret Thatcher. The first memorial to be erected by the Police Memorial Trust, founded in response to Fletcher’s shooting during a siege of the Libyan embassy on the Square.[250]
General Charles de Gaulle Statue Carlton Gardens

51°30′20″N 0°08′03″W / 51.505650°N 0.134200°W / 51.505650; -0.134200 (Charles de Gaulle)

1993 Angela Conner Bernrad Wiehahn Unveiled 23 June 1993 by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. De Gaulle (who requested that no statues be raised to him) gestures with his left hand towards 4 Carlton Gardens, the headquarters of the Free French from 1940.[246]
Eclipse

Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda

Fountain with sculpture Economist Plaza 1996 Angela Conner
The memorial fountain consists of two moving discs mounted on a wall, which slowly fill up with water. In 2008 Conner voiced her displeasure with the Economist’s neglect of the work’s upkeep.[251]
Stag Statue St James’s Square 2001 Marcus Cornish
Commissioned by the developer Patrick Despard for Cleveland House, St James’s Square. As the sculpture did not find favour with the building’s occupants, it was presented to the trustees of the square.[252]
Beau Brummell Statue Jermyn Street

51°30′28″N 0°08′20″W / 51.507700°N 0.138900°W / 51.507700; -0.138900 (Beau Brummell)

2002 Irena Sedlecká
Unveiled 5 November 2002 by Princess Michael of Kent. Sedlecká originally conceived the sculpture for the Bond Street site now occupied by Lawrence Holofcener’s Allies.[253]
National Police Memorial
Category:National Police Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:National Police Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with stele The Mall, in front of the Admiralty Citadel

51°30′21″N 0°07′48″W / 51.505742°N 0.130064°W / 51.505742; -0.130064 (National Police Memorial)

2005 Per Arnoldi Foster and Partners Unveiled 26 April 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II. The memorial incorporates a ventilation shaft for the London Underground, faced with black granite and containing a Roll of Honour.[254]
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Category:George VI and Queen Elizabeth Monument on Wikimedia Commons
Category:George VI and Queen Elizabeth Monument on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with statue and relief sculpture The Mall

51°30′18″N 0°08′01″W / 51.505128°N 0.133716°W / 51.505128; -0.133716 (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother)

2009 Philip Jackson (statue)

Paul Day (reliefs)

Donald Buttress, Donald Insall Unveiled 24 February 2009 by Queen Elizabeth II. Part of a joint memorial to the Queen Mother and her husband George VI, which incorporates William McMillan’s 1955 statue of the latter. A cast of Jackson's statue is to be erected in Poundbury, Dorset.[255]
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park Statue Waterloo Place

51°30′24″N 0°07′57″W / 51.506696°N 0.132469°W / 51.506696; -0.132469 (Sir Keith Park)

2010 Les Johnson
Unveiled 15 September 2010, on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Previously a larger, fibreglass version of the statue was displayed on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square for six months. It is now at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon.[256]
Tiffany Fountain Fountain Pelican Rock, St James’s Park 2011
Unveiled 7 July 2011 by Jools Holland. Commemorates the Tiffany & Co. Foundation’s gift of $1.25 million to the Royal Parks Foundation. Replaces an earlier fountain installed in 1966 and decommissioned in 1996.[257]
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Stone plaque with portrait relief Pickering Place
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St. John’s Wood

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Memorial to Edward Onslow Ford Obelisk with sculpture Abbey Road / Grove End Road

51°31′55″N 0°10′37″W / 51.53191°N 0.17708°W / 51.53191; -0.17708 (Edward Onslow Ford)

1903 Andrea Carlo Lucchesi John William Simpson Unveiled 13 July 1903.[258] At the front of the memorial is a casting of Onslow Ford’s own Muse from his Shelley Memorial in University College, Oxford; behind is a portrait head of the sculptor by Lucchesi.[259] Grade II
Old Father Time Weathervane Lord's Cricket Ground

51°31′44″N 0°10′20″W / 51.52878°N 0.17219°W / 51.52878; -0.17219 (Old Father Time)

1926
Sir Herbert Baker A gift by Baker, the architect of the Grandstand, to the Marylebone Cricket Club and Lord’s.[260] Moved to the Mound Stand in 1996 to allow for the demolition of Baker’s Grandstand and the construction of its replacement by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.[261]
Sporting figures Bas-relief Lord's Cricket Ground

51°31′48″N 0°10′10″W / 51.530100°N 0.169333°W / 51.530100; -0.169333 (Sporting figures relief)

1934 Gilbert Bayes
13 sportspeople, including tennis players, golfers, cricketers, swimmers, oarsmen and footballers are depicted in a procession. The inscription PLAY UP PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME is taken from Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" (1892). The setting was remodelled in 1995–6.[262] Grade II
St. Marylebone War Memorial Equestrian statue St. John’s Wood roundabout, top of Park Road NW8

51°31′48″N 0°10′04″W / 51.53012°N 0.16787°W / 51.53012; -0.16787 (St Marylebone War Memorial)

1935 c. 1935 Charles Leonard Hartwell
Hartwell designed the bronze group of Saint George spearing the dragon for a war memorial in Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by Earl Haig. This later casting was a gift of the artist Sigismund Goetze.[263] Grade II
St. John the Baptist Statue St. John the Baptist’s Church 1977 Hans Feibusch
Bowler Statue Lord’s Cricket Ground 2002 Antony Dufort

Soho

Soho has an area of approximately one square mile and may be thought of as bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Leicester Square to the south and Charing Cross Road to the east.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Charles II Statue Soho Square

51°30′55″N 0°07′56″W / 51.5154°N 0.1323°W / 51.5154; -0.1323 (Charles II)

1681 Caius Gabriel Cibber
Originally formed the crowning element of a fountain at the centre of the square. In 1875 the badly weathered statue was moved to the garden of Grim’s Dyke, Harrow Weald, later the home of W. S. Gilbert. It was returned to the square in 1938, according to the wishes of Gilbert’s widow.[264] Grade II
George II Statue Golden Square

51°30′42″N 0°08′14″W / 51.511647°N 0.137212°W / 51.511647; -0.137212 (George II)

1720 John Nost the Elder
A statue of an allegorical figure in Roman costume, made for Cannons, the seat of the Duke of Chandos in Little Stanhope, Middlesex. An anonymous bidder bought the statue at the sale of the house’s contents and erected it in Golden Square as "George II" on 14 March 1753.[265] Grade II
William Shakespeare
Category:Statue of William Shakespeare at Leicester Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of William Shakespeare at Leicester Square on Wikimedia Commons
Fountain with statue Leicester Square

51°30′37″N 0°07′48″W / 51.510376°N 0.1301182°W / 51.510376; -0.1301182 (William Shakespeare)

1874 Giovanni Fontana after Peter Scheemakers Sir James Knowles Unveiled 3 July 1874. Based on William Kent and Scheemakers’s memorial to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The centrepiece of Knowles’s refurbishment of the Square’s gardens, paid for by Albert Grant, a company promoter and MP.[266] Grade II
File:John Hunter 2206660627.jpg John Hunter Bust Leicester Square, south-eastern corner 1874 Thomas Woolner
Hunter lived at 28 Leicester Square from 1783 to 1793.[267] Grant originally commissioned Woolner to sculpt a bust of Samuel Johnson, who frequented Reynolds’s house on the square, but was persuaded by the Royal College of Surgeons to honour Hunter instead. The bust originally stood in the north-eastern corner of the square but changed places with the bust of Hogarth when the square was refurbished in 1989–92.[268] Grade II
Sir Joshua Reynolds Bust Leicester Square, north-western corner 1874 Henry Weekes
Reynolds lived at 47 Leicester Square from 1760 until his death in 1792.[269] Grade II
William Hogarth Bust Leicester Square, north-eastern corner 1874 Joseph Durham
Originally stood in the south-eastern corner of the square, near where Hogarth had a house from 1733 until his death in 1764.[270] Exchanged places with the bust of Hunter in the 1989–92 refurbishment of the square.[268] Grade II
Sir Isaac Newton Bust Leicester Square, south-western corner 1874 William Calder Marshall
Newton lived nearby, on 35 St Martin’s Street, from 1710 to 1725.[271] Grade II
Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain
Category:Category:Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain ("Eros"), Piccadilly Circus on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Category:Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain ("Eros"), Piccadilly Circus on Wikimedia Commons

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Fountain with statue Piccadilly Circus

51°30′36″N 0°08′04″W / 51.509904°N 0.134515°W / 51.509904; -0.134515 (Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain ("Eros"))

1885 Sir Alfred Gilbert Howard Ince (consulted on design) Unveiled 29 June 1893. Gilbert criticised contemporary statues for being too literal and inartistic, and chose instead to symbolise Lord Shaftesbury’s philanthropy with an allegorical figure.[272] This was intended to represent Anteros or "The Angel of Christian Charity", but it became popularly identified with the Greek god’s twin brother Eros. Grade I
Sir Henry Irving
Category:Statue of Henry Irving, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Henry Irving, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Irving Street

51°30′35″N 0°07′42″W / 51.5097°N 0.1282°W / 51.5097; -0.1282 (Sir Henry Irving)

1910 Sir Thomas Brock
Unveiled 5 December 1910. The street between the statue and the National Portrait Gallery, formerly Green Street, was renamed in the actor’s honour in 1938. The formal gardens were laid out, with railings bearing the monogram HI, for the Festival of Britain in 1951; these were unveiled by Sir Laurence Olivier.[273] Grade II
Charlie Chaplin
Category:Statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Leicester Square 1981 John Doubleday
Unveiled 16 April 1981 by Sir Ralph Richardson. A slightly modified version was erected in Vevey, the Swiss town Chaplin made his home, the following year. Moved in 1989–92 from the south-western corner to a site north of the Shakespeare fountain.[274]
Ode to the West Wind Mural 17 Noel Street 1989 Louise Vines and the London Wall Mural Group
Inspired by the eponymous poem of 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived around the corner in 15 Poland Street; the mutilated tree is also a reference to the Great Storm of 1987. Originally proposed in 1986 by the Soho Jazz Festival, who then abandoned the commission; it was subsequently taken up by the Soho Society.[275]
The Spirit of Soho Mural Broadwick Street 1991 Freeform Arts Trust
Saint Anne, as patroness of Soho, is portrayed in a dress bearing a map of the district. At her feet are gathered several former residents, including Casanova and Marx. Six smaller scenes depict forms of work and leisure characteristic of the area. Restored in 2006.[276]
Cantonal Tree Swiss Court, Leicester Square 1991
Unveiled 15 April 1991, to mark the 700th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Confederation. The street was also given its current name for that occasion. Displays the arms of Switzerland’s 26 cantons.

Victoria

Victoria is roughly described as the area around Victoria station.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect Notes Listing
Tympanum mosaic Mosaic Westminster Cathedral 1916 Robert Anning Bell John Francis Bentley The mosaic was criticised for its background of white tiles, instead of the traditional gold.[277] Grade I
Rifle Brigade Memorial Memorial with sculpture Grosvenor Gardens

51°29′53″N 0°08′49″W / 51.4980°N 0.1470°W / 51.4980; -0.1470 (Rifle Brigade Memorial)

1924–5 John Tweed
Unveiled 25 July 1925. The rifleman in contemporary uniform in the centre is flanked by an officer (on the left) and a private in early 19th-century uniform.[278] Grade II
Marshall Ferdinand Foch Equestrian statue Grosvenor Gardens

51°29′47″N 0°08′43″W / 51.4964°N 0.1453°W / 51.4964; -0.1453 (Marshall Foch)

1930 Georges Malissard F. Lebret Unveiled 5 June 1930.[279] A replica of the statue in Cassel, France. The choice of an existing work by a French sculptor caused some dissatisfaction. The site was chosen so that the statue would be seen by French visitors arriving in London at Victoria station.[280] Grade II
File:Victoria silhouette.jpg Cameo of Queen Victoria Tiled pattern Victoria station Victoria line platforms 1968 Edward Bawden after Benjamin Pearce
Bawden produced an original linocut of the Queen’s profile for this scheme but it was rejected;[281] the final design is based on a silhouette by Pearce.[66]
Suffragette Memorial Sculpture Christchurch Gardens 1970 Lorne and Edwin Russell Paul Edward Paget Unveiled 14 July 1970. A bronze scroll in the shape of the letter S balancing on a conical pedestal. Inscribed NEARBY CAXTON HALL WAS/ HISTORICALLY ASSOCIATED/ WITH WOMEN′S SUFFRAGE/ MEETINGS & DEPUTATIONS/ TO PARLIAMENT.[282]
Field Mashal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Category:Alexander of Tunis statue on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Alexander of Tunis statue on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Outside the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk

51°30′02″N 0°08′09″W / 51.500467°N 0.135817°W / 51.500467; -0.135817 (Lord Alexander of Tunis)

1985 James Butler
Unveiled 9 May 1985 by the Queen Mother. Alexander had a particular affection for the old Guards Chapel (almost completely destroyed by bombing in 1944), having spent much time there as a subaltern.[283]
Gates Gates 111 Buckingham Palace Road 1986 Giuseppe Lund
Gates of jagged aluminium.[284]
The Flowering of the English Baroque

Henry Purcell

Sculpture Christchurch Gardens

51°29′53″N 0°08′03″W / 51.497967°N 0.134167°W / 51.497967; -0.134167 (The Flowering of the English Baroque)

1995 Glynn Williams
Unveiled 22 November 1995, the tercentenary of Purcell’s death, by Princess Margaret. The sculptor described the design as "a rising explosion of activity, a tree to the musical evolution of the 17th century". This was the first major sculptural commission by Westminster City Council.[285]
Big Painting Sculpture Sculpture Cardinal Place 1996–8 Patrick Heron Julian Feary Commissioned when the complex was still known as Stag Place. Based on several gouache studies by Heron of brightly coloured floating shapes connected by linear patterns. Neon tubes light up the work at night.[286]
Lioness and Lesser Kudu Sculptural group Grosvenor Gardens 1998 Jonathan Kenworthy
Installed on this site in 2000; another cast already stood in the grounds of Eaton Hall, the Duke of Westminster’s estate in Cheshire.[287]
Cypher Sculpture Outside the Asticus Building, 21 Palmer Street 2004 Tim Morgan
The sculpture, one of an edition of three, consists of thousands of glass rods bound together within a circular steel belt.[288]
Stacked glass sculpture Sculpture Cardinal Place 2005 Tony Burke
LP4 Sculpture Cardinal Place 2005 Nathaniel Rackowe

Victoria Embankment

The Victoria Embankment is a road and river-walk on the north bank of the River Thames, formed from land reclaimed during the construction of Joseph Bazalgette’s sewerage system in the late 19th century.[289] From 1864 a sequence of public gardens called the Victoria Embankment Gardens was created from this land; running from north-east to south-west these are called Temple Gardens, the Main Garden, the Whitehall Garden and finally the Ministry of Defence section, built 1939–59.[290] All four gardens contain works of commemorative sculpture and more memorials are on the river-walk or road itself, making the Embankment one of the principal sites for commemoration in London. One of these memorials, the National Submarine War Memorial, lies outside the borough, in the City of London.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Cleopatra's Needle
Category:Cleopatra's Needle (London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Cleopatra's Needle (London) on Wikimedia Commons

Thutmose III and Ramesses II

Obelisk Adelphi Steps, near Hungerford Bridge

51°30′31″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5085°N 0.1203°W / 51.5085; -0.1203 (Cleopatra's Needle)

1450 BC c. 1450 BC
George John Vulliamy One of a pair of obelisks erected in Heliopolis by Thutmose III; two centuries later the inscriptions to Ramesses II were added and in 12 BC they were moved to Alexandria. Presented to Britain in 1819, but not brought to London until 1878. Its companion was re-erected in Central Park, New York, in 1881.[291] Grade I
Boadicea and her Daughters
Category:Boudica statue, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Boudica statue, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons

Boudica

Sculptural group Near Westminster Pier

51°30′04″N 0°07′26″W / 51.5011°N 0.1238°W / 51.5011; -0.1238 (Boadicea and her Daughters)

1856–83 Thomas Thornycroft and Hamo Thornycroft Sir Thomas Graham Jackson The elder Thornycroft’s magnum opus, brought to completion by his son. The style of the figures was out of fashion by the time the group was installed here in 1902.[292] Grade II
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Statue Near Temple tube station

51°30′39″N 0°06′55″W / 51.5108°N 0.1152°W / 51.5108; -0.1152 (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

1861 c. 1861 Carlo Marochetti Richard Norman Shaw Erected 1877. This and Marochetti’s statue of George Stephenson outside Euston station were originally planned for Parliament Square. Shaw’s masonry screen, then a complete novelty but much imitated since, may have been intended to block the tube station from view.[293] Grade II
Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Garden

51°30′21″N 0°07′24″W / 51.5057°N 0.1234°W / 51.5057; -0.1234 (James Outram)

1871 Matthew Noble
Unveiled 17 August 1871. Permission for a statue to Outram in Trafalgar Square had been refused in 1861. Trophies of arms representing his Indian campaigns rest on the corners of the pedestal.[294] Grade II
John Stuart Mill Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Temple Gardens

51°30′40″N 0°06′48″W / 51.5112°N 0.1132°W / 51.5112; -0.1132 (John Stuart Mill)

1878 Thomas Woolner
Unveiled 26 January 1878.[295] The first statue specifically designed for a site on the Embankment.[296] Grade II
Two sphinxes Statues Cleopatra's Needle 1878 Charles Henry Mabey George John Vulliamy Modelled on a sphinx from the time of Thutmose III in the Duke of Northumberland's collection at Alnwick Castle.[297] Grade I
(with obelisk)
Robert Raikes
Category:Statue of Robert Raikes, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Robert Raikes, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′34″N 0°07′11″W / 51.5095°N 0.1197°W / 51.5095; -0.1197 (Robert Raikes)

1880 Sir Thomas Brock
Unveiled 3 July 1880 by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Replicas were made in 1929 for the 150th anniversary of the first Sunday school, established by Raikes in Gloucester; they stand in that city and in Toronto.[298] Grade II
William Tyndale
Category:William Tyndale statue, Victoria Embankment Gardens on Wikimedia Commons
Category:William Tyndale statue, Victoria Embankment Gardens on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Garden

51°30′23″N 0°07′23″W / 51.5063°N 0.1231°W / 51.5063; -0.1231 (William Tyndale)

1884 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm Edward William Godwin Unveiled 7 May 1884. Erected by the British and Foreign Bible Society to commemorate their 80th anniversary, and the supposed 400th anniversary of Tyndale’s birth.[299] Grade II
Robert Burns Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′32″N 0°07′16″W / 51.5089°N 0.1210°W / 51.5089; -0.1210 (Robert Burns)

1884 Sir John Steell
Unveiled 26 July 1884 by Lord Rosebery. A variation on Steell’s 1880 statue of Burns in Central Park, New York; other versions are in Dundee (erected 1880) and Dunedin, New Zealand (erected 1887).[300] Grade II
Memorial to Henry Fawcett Drinking fountain with plaque Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′33″N 0°07′14″W / 51.5091°N 0.1205°W / 51.5091; -0.1205 (Henry Fawcett Memorial)

1886 Mary Grant and George Frampton Basil Champneys Unveiled 27 July 1886. Grant produced the portrait relief and Frampton, then at an early stage in his career, provided the ornamental sculpture. The erroneous "signature" reads MARY GRANT SC/ 1896; this was added in 1897.[301] Grade II
Sir Henry Bartle Frere, 1st Baronet Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Garden

51°30′18″N 0°07′25″W / 51.5051°N 0.1236°W / 51.5051; -0.1236 (Henry Bartle Frere)

1887 Sir Thomas Brock
Unveiled 5 June 1888 by the Prince of Wales. Frere is represented in privy counsellor’s uniform, with the robe and collar of a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and the insignia of the Order of the Bath.[302] Grade II
General Charles George Gordon
Category:Charles George Gordon statue, Victoria Embankment on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Charles George Gordon statue, Victoria Embankment on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Ministry of Defence section

51°30′16″N 0°07′26″W / 51.5045°N 0.1238°W / 51.5045; -0.1238 (General Gordon)

1888 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft Alfred Waterhouse Unveiled 16 October 1888 in Trafalgar Square. The pedestal was inspired by that of Le Sueur’s Charles I near that location. Removed in 1943 for the temporary display of a Lancaster bomber and re-erected on this site in 1953. A cast of 1889 is in Melbourne.[303] Grade II
William Edward Forster Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′41″N 0°06′44″W / 51.5113°N 0.1123°W / 51.5113; -0.1123 (William Edward Forster)

1889 Henry Richard Hope Pinker
Unveiled 1 August 1890. Erected outside the (now demolished) London School Board offices, appropriately enough as Forster was responsible for the act of Parliament which provided compulsory state education for all children.[304] Grade II
Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Category:Joseph Bazalgette Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Joseph Bazalgette Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Plaque with bust Near Embankment Pier, facing Northumberland Avenue

51°30′23″N 0°07′20″W / 51.506383°N 0.122250°W / 51.506383; -0.122250 (Joseph Bazalgette Memorial)

1901 George Blackall Simonds
Unveiled 6 November 1901.[305] Inscribed FLVMINI VINCVLA POSVIT ("he put the river in chains"), referring to Bazalgette’s construction of London’s sewers, which also resulted in the creation of the Embankment.[306] Grade II
Memorial to Sir Arthur Sullivan
Category:Arthur Sullivan Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Arthur Sullivan Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Bust on pedestal with other sculpture Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′33″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5093°N 0.1203°W / 51.5093; -0.1203 (Sir Arthur Sullivan Memorial)

1902 Sir William Goscombe John
Unveiled 10 July 1903 by Princess Louise. Inscribed with a quotation from The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), IS LIFE A BOON?/ IF SO, IT MUST BEFALL/ THAT DEATH, WHENE’ER HE CALL/ MUST CALL TOO SOON.[307] Grade II
Memorial to Walter Besant Plaque Near Savoy Place

51°30′34″N 0°07′07″W / 51.509583°N 0.118533°W / 51.509583; -0.118533 (Walter Besant Memorial)

1902 Sir George Frampton
Erected 1904. A cast of an identical monument in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, unveiled in 1903.[308] Grade II
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′31″N 0°07′18″W / 51.5085°N 0.1218°W / 51.5085; -0.1218 (Sir Wilfrid Lawson)

1909 David McGill
Unveiled 20 July 1909 by H. H. Asquith. The pedestal was originally decorated with bronze statuettes representing Temperance, Charity, Fortitude and Peace; these were stolen in 1979.[309] Grade II
Memorial to William Thomas Stead Plaque Temple Pier

51°30′39″N 0°06′45″W / 51.5108°N 0.1126°W / 51.5108; -0.1126 (W. T. Stead Memorial)

1913 Sir George Frampton
Unveiled 5 July 1920. Portrait relief with two small figures of Fortitude and Sympathy. A replica was unveiled in Central Park, New York, in 1921.[310] Grade II
Memorial to Richard Norman Shaw Plaque Norman Shaw Buildings 1914 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft William Lethaby Unveiled 13 July 1914. Lethaby commended Thornycroft on his posthumous likeness of Shaw: "You must have remembered much, the curled over lip and the serious smiling, saucy look are so alike..." The building is generally regarded as Shaw’s masterpiece.[311] Grade I (building)
Memorial to W. S. Gilbert Plaque Near Embankment Pier

51°30′26″N 0°07′18″W / 51.5072°N 0.1216°W / 51.5072; -0.1216 (W. S. Gilbert Memorial)

1914 Sir George Frampton
Unveiled 31 August 1915. Portrait relief with figures of Tragedy and Comedy; the latter contemplates a doll dressed as the Mikado. Anthony Hope, who was on the memorial committee, took credit for the epitaph HIS FOE WAS FOLLY/ AND HIS WEAPON WIT, though the exact phrasing was not his.[312] Grade II
Anglo-Belgian War Memorial
Category:Anglo-Belgian War Memorial (London) on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Anglo-Belgian War Memorial (London) on Wikimedia Commons
Screen with sculptural group and reliefs Victoria Embankment, facing Cleopatra’s Needle

51°30′31″N 0°07′15″W / 51.5087°N 0.1208°W / 51.5087; -0.1208 (Anglo-Belgian War Memorial)

1920 Victor Rousseau with a Mr. Francis Sir Reginald Blomfield Unveiled 12 October 1920. A gift from Belgium to thank Britain for her assistance in the First World War. Rousseau modelled the central bronze group and Francis, a student at the Royal College of Art, was tasked with the initial carving of the stone elements, which was finished by Rousseau.[313] A corresponding memorial is in Brussels. Grade II
Imperial Camel Corps Memorial Statue on pedestal with reliefs Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′30″N 0°07′18″W / 51.5084°N 0.1216°W / 51.5084; -0.1216 (Imperial Camel Corps Memorial)

1920 Major Cecil Brown
Unveiled 22 July 1921. The sculptor was himself a member of the Corps.[314] Grade II
Royal Air Force Memorial
Category:RAF Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:RAF Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Pylon with sculpture Whitehall Steps

51°30′14″N 0°07′23″W / 51.5040°N 0.1231°W / 51.5040; -0.1231 (Royal Air Force Memorial)

1923 Sir William Reid Dick Sir Reginald Blomfield Unveiled 13 July 1923 by the Prince of Wales. A pylon of Portland stone surmounted by a gilded eagle, perched on a globe. Commemorates RAF personnel killed in both world wars.[315] Grade II
Memorial to Samuel Plimsoll Bust on pedestal with other sculpture Victoria Embankment

51°30′19″N 0°07′24″W / 51.5053°N 0.1232°W / 51.5053; -0.1232 (Plimsoll Memorial)

1929 Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
Unveiled 21 August 1929. The plinth is flanked by bronze figures of a sailor and Justice. The Plimsoll line is used as a motif on the railings on either side.[316] Grade II
Memorial to Major-General Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore Screen Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′32″N 0°07′15″W / 51.5088°N 0.1209°W / 51.5088; -0.1209 (Cheylesmore Memorial)

1930
Sir Edwin Lutyens Unveiled 17 July 1930. Sir Reginald Blomfield, the architect of the Anglo-Belgian Memorial, objected to Lutyens’s work being "plastered onto the back" of his own.[317] Grade II
King’s Reach Memorial Stele with plaque and sculpture Temple Pier 1936 Charles Doman Sir Edwin Cooper Unveiled 20 January 1936. Commemorates the naming of this stretch of the river after George V.[318]
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
Category:Trenchard's statue, Embankment, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Trenchard's statue, Embankment, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Ministry of Defence section

51°30′13″N 0°07′26″W / 51.5035°N 0.1240°W / 51.5035; -0.1240 (Viscount Trenchard)

1961 William McMillan Sir Albert Richardson Unveiled 19 July 1961 by Harold Macmillan. Richardson was an old friend of Trenchard’s and offered to design the pedestal free of charge.[319] Grade II
Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Ministry of Defence section

51°30′15″N 0°07′25″W / 51.504201°N 0.12372°W / 51.504201; -0.12372 (Viscount Portal)

1975 Oscar Nemon
Unveiled 21 May 1975 by Harold Macmillan. The statue is set on a triangular slate pedestal, partly intended to evoke the shape of an aerofoil. Portal gazes upwards in the direction of the RAF Memorial.[320]
Murals Murals Embankment tube station, all platforms 1985 Robyn Denny Arup Associates This scheme won a Brunel Award for outstanding visual design in 1989.[321]
Savoy Hotel Centenary Memorial

Richard D'Oyly Carte et al.

Armillary sphere and cistern Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′34″N 0°07′12″W / 51.509498°N 0.119932°W / 51.509498; -0.119932 (Savoy Hotel Centenary Memorial)

1989 Christopher Daniel Sir Hugh Casson
Michael Faraday Statue Savoy Place

51°30′36″N 0°07′08″W / 51.509883°N 0.118883°W / 51.509883; -0.118883 (Michael Faraday)

1989 John Henry Foley and Thomas Brock
Unveiled 1 November 1989. Cast of an 1874 marble sculpture in the Royal Institution, completed by Brock after Foley’s death. The original gilding has worn away entirely.[322]
Chindit Memorial
Category:Chindit Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Chindit Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Whitehall Garden

51°30′12″N 0°07′26″W / 51.503302°N 0.124009°W / 51.503302; -0.124009 (Chindit Memorial)

1990 Frank Forster David Price Unveiled 16 October 1990. Crowned with a bronze Chinthe or Burmese temple guardian, the Chindits’ namesake. Medallions to the front and rear reproduce the force’s badge and the portrait of their founder Orde Wingate.[323]
Lady Henry Somerset’s Children’s Fountain Drinking fountain with statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Main Garden

51°30′40″N 0°06′45″W / 51.5112°N 0.1125°W / 51.5112; -0.1125 (Lady Henry Somerset's Children's Fountain)

1991 Philomena Davidson Davis after George Edward Wade
Unveiled 29 May 1897. Wade’s original sculpture for the temperance campaigner’s memorial was stolen in 1971; it was replaced by Davis’s replica only in 1991.[324] Grade II
Fleet Air Arm Memorial (Daedalus)
Category:Fleet Air Arm Memorial, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Fleet Air Arm Memorial, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons

Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm

Statue Victoria Embankment Gardens, Ministry of Defence section

51°30′15″N 0°07′26″W / 51.504038°N 0.123974°W / 51.504038; -0.123974 (Fleet Air Arm Memorial)

2000 James Butler Trehearne and Norman Unveiled 1 June 2000 by the Prince of Wales. The figure of Daedalus as a modern pilot reflects on his fallen comrades. He stands atop a column which rises out of a plinth reminiscent of the prow of a ship.[325]
Battle of Britain Monument
Category:Battle of Britain Monument, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Battle of Britain Monument, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Victoria Embankment, near Richmond Terrace

51°30′11″N 0°07′24″W / 51.503017°N 0.123425°W / 51.503017; -0.123425 (Battle of Britain Monument)

2005 Paul Day Tony Dyson Unveiled 18 September 2005 by the Prince of Wales. Adapted from a Victorian granite plinth which originally housed a ventilator for the Underground.[326]

Westminster

Westminster, which gives the borough its name, lies to the south-west of Charing Cross; it is the location of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster, which together with St Margaret’s parish church comprise a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[327] The area’s main sculptural showcase is Parliament Square, conceived in the 1860s to improve the setting of the rebuilt Houses of Parliament, to ease traffic flow and as a site for commemorating politicians of note.[328] Statues of the engineers Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (both by Carlo Marochetti) were initially considered for the square but were rejected as not fitting in with the political theme; they were ultimately erected outside Euston station and on the Victoria Embankment.[329] Parliament Square’s present configuration is a result of George Grey Wornum’s refurbishment of 1949–50, though three statues of twentieth-century figures have since been added.[330] Another two political memorials (one of which, the Buxton Memorial Fountain, was moved by Wornum from Parliament Square) and The Burghers of Calais, a work on an historical theme by Auguste Rodin, are to be found in Victoria Tower Gardens.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Artist Architect / Designer Notes Listing
George Canning
Category:George Canning statue, Parliament Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:George Canning statue, Parliament Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Parliament Square

51°30′04″N 0°07′40″W / 51.5010°N 0.1277°W / 51.5010; -0.1277 (George Canning)

1832 Sir Richard Westmacott
Erected 2 May 1832 in New Palace Yard; in its current location since 1949. The features are based on the portrait bust of Canning by Sir Francis Chantrey, who was "not at all pleased with the preference shewn to Mr. Westmacott".[331] Grade II
Richard Coeur de Lion
Category:Statue of Richard I, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Richard I, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons

Richard I

Equestrian statue Old Palace Yard

51°29′57″N 0°07′32″W / 51.499149°N 0.125589°W / 51.499149; -0.125589 (Richard I)

1856 Carlo Marochetti
Unveiled 26 October 1860. Casting of a clay model exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition to much acclaim; John Ruskin considered it "the only really interesting piece of historical sculpture we have".[332] Grade II
Westminster Scholars War Memorial
Category:Westminster Scholars War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Westminster Scholars War Memorial on Wikimedia Commons
Column with sculpture Broad Sanctuary

51°29′58″N 0°07′45″W / 51.499503°N 0.129170°W / 51.499503; -0.129170 (Westminster Scholars War Memorial)

1861 John Birnie Philip Sir George Gilbert Scott Commemorates Lord Raglan and other ex-pupils of Westminster School who died in the Crimean War[333] and the Indian Mutiny. Sculptures represent St George and the Dragon, Edward the Confessor and Henry III (builders of Westminster Abbey), Elizabeth I (second founder of the school) and Queen Victoria.[334] Grade II
Buxton Memorial Fountain
Category:Buxton Memorial Fountain on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Buxton Memorial Fountain on Wikimedia Commons

Inscribed to Buxton, Wilberforce, Clarkson, Macaulay, Brougham, Lushington et al.

Drinking fountain Victoria Tower Gardens

51°29′46″N 0°07′29″W / 51.4961°N 0.1248°W / 51.4961; -0.1248 (Buxton Memorial Fountain)

1865–6 Thomas Earp (figures now lost) Samuel Sanders Teulon with Charles Buxton Erected in Parliament Square in 1865–6. Commissioned by Charles Buxton as a memorial to his father Sir Thomas Buxton and his colleagues in the Abolitionist movement, particularly those associated with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Removed in 1949 and re-erected on this site in 1957.[335] Grade II*
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5008°N 0.1273°W / 51.5008; -0.1273 (Earl of Derby)

1874 Matthew Noble
Unveiled 11 July 1874. Derby is represented wearing his robes as Chancellor of Oxford University. The bronze reliefs around the pedestal depicting scenes from his life were executed by Noble’s assistant, Horace Montford.[336] Grade II
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5009°N 0.1271°W / 51.5009; -0.1271 (Viscount Palmerston)

1876 Thomas Woolner
Unveiled 2 February 1876. Palmerston is portrayed in middle age, before he became Prime Minister. The pedestal departs from the "Gothic" model of the nearby statues of Derby and Peel.[337] Grade II
Sir Robert Peel Statue Parliament Square

51°30′02″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5005°N 0.1273°W / 51.5005; -0.1273 (Sir Robert Peel)

1877 (unveiled) Matthew Noble
Initially a statue of Peel was commissioned from Carlo Marochetti. This was ready by 1853 but was considered to be far too large. Marochetti produced a smaller work which was placed at the entrance to New Palace Yard; this was removed in 1868 and melted down in 1874.[338] Grade II
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Statue Parliament Square

51°30′02″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5006°N 0.1273°W / 51.5006; -0.1273 (Benjamin Disraeli)

1883 Mario Raggi
Unveiled 19 April 1883. The statue was the "shrine" of the Primrose League, a conservative association established in Disraeli’s memory, who left wreaths in front of it every year on "Primrose Day", the anniversary of his death.[339] Grade II
The Burghers of Calais
Category:Burghers of Calais, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Burghers of Calais, London on Wikimedia Commons
Sculptural group Victoria Tower Gardens

51°29′51″N 0°07′30″W / 51.497477°N 0.124931°W / 51.497477; -0.124931 (Burghers of Calais)

1895 Auguste Rodin Eric Gill (lettering) Unveiled 19 July 1915. The National Art Collections Fund bought the cast in 1910. Rodin wanted the work situated "near the statue of William the Conqueror" (sic) but eventually agreed on a site in Victoria Tower Gardens.[340] Relocated and given its current pedestal in 2004.[341] Grade I
Oliver Cromwell
Category:Oliver Cromwell statue, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Oliver Cromwell statue, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Statue New Palace Yard

51°29′59″N 0°07′33″W / 51.49985°N 0.125861°W / 51.49985; -0.125861 (Oliver Cromwell)

1899 Hamo Thornycroft
Unveiled 18 November 1899.[342] The decision to erect a statue to Cromwell was controversial; the Irish Nationalist Party forced the withdrawal of public funds to pay for the statue. Instead an anonymous donor, rumoured to be Lord Rosebery, paid for the work.[343] Grade II
War memorial Cross Churchyard of St John's, Smith Square, facing Dean Stanley Street after 1918
Commemorates the 120 parishioners of the church who died in World War I.[344]
Abraham Lincoln
Category:Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Parliament Square, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Parliament Square, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Parliament Square

51°30′02″N 0°07′40″W / 51.5006°N 0.1278°W / 51.5006; -0.1278 (Abraham Lincoln)

1920 (unveiled) Augustus Saint-Gaudens McKim, Mead & White Unveiled July 1920. A replica of the statue of Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Initially the statue was to be erected in 1914, but this was postponed until 1917. By that time some favoured an alternative statue by George Grey Barnard; this was eventually erected in Manchester.[345] Grade II
Drinking fountain with two groups of a nanny goat and kid Drinking fountain with sculptural groups Victoria Tower Gardens 1923 Miss Harris assisted by Charles Sargeant Jagger
Given by Henry Gage Spicer, the director of a paper firm, for the poor children of the area who used the Gardens as a playground. The extent of "Miss Harris’s" involvement in the art deco sculptures is questionable.[346]
Emmeline Pankhurst
Category:Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue with side screens and piers Victoria Tower Gardens

51°29′52″N 0°07′31″W / 51.4979°N 0.1253°W / 51.4979; -0.1253 (Emmeline Pankhurst)

1930 Arthur George Walker Sir Herbert Baker Unveiled 6 March 1930 by Stanley Baldwin. Moved to the present site in 1956. The stone screens were added in 1959 as a memorial to Christabel Pankhurst. Two bronze plaques show, on the right, a portrait medallion of Christabel Pankhurst and, on the left, the design on the WSPU prisoners’ badge.[347] Grade II
George V
Category:Statue of George V in Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of George V in Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Old Palace Yard

51°29′56″N 0°07′35″W / 51.498972°N 0.12634°W / 51.498972; -0.12634 (George V)

1947 (unveiled) Sir William Reid Dick Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Unveiled 22 October 1947 by George VI. Completion of the statue was delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War; the statue was stored at the quarry in Portland for the duration of the conflict.[348] Grade II
Jan Smuts Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′37″W / 51.5009°N 0.1269°W / 51.5009; -0.1269 (Jan Smuts)

1956 Sir Jacob Epstein possibly Charles Holden Unveiled 7 November 1956. Winston Churchill, on his return to power in 1951, wished to erect a statue to Smuts; he was, however, unable to perform the unveiling due to illness. The pedestal is of granite from South Africa.[346] Grade II
File:HenryMoore KnifeEdgeTwoPiece02b.jpg Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Sculpture Abingdon Street Gardens (College Green)

51°29′53″N 0°07′34″W / 51.497967°N 0.126048°W / 51.497967; -0.126048 (Knife Edge Two Piece)

1962–5 Henry Moore
Unveiled 1 November 1967. A gift by Henry Moore and the Contemporary Art Society.[349] Over the years the work’s condition deteriorated because its legal owner was unknown;[350] the House of Commons accepted ownership of the sculpture in 2011 and plans to carry out maintenance works.[351]
Winston Churchill
Category:Churchill statue, Parliament Square on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Churchill statue, Parliament Square on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′35″W / 51.5008°N 0.1265°W / 51.5008; -0.1265 (Winston Churchill)

1973 Ivor Roberts-Jones
Unveiled 1 November 1973 by Lady Clementine Spencer-Churchill. Churchill indicated his desire for a statue of himself in this spot when Parliament Square was redeveloped in the 1950s.[352] Roberts-Jones’s initial versions of the statue were felt to bear too close a resemblance to Benito Mussolini.[353] Grade II
Jubilee Fountain

Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II

Fountain with sculpture New Palace Yard

51°30′02″N 0°07′31″W / 51.500532°N 0.125211°W / 51.500532; -0.125211 (Jubilee Fountain)

1977 Walenty Pytel
Unveiled 4 May 1977 by Queen Elizabeth II. The two tiers of animals represent the continents: on the lower tier are a lion for Africa, a unicorn for Europe and a tiger for Asia, on the upper an eagle for the Americas, a kangaroo for Australia and a penguin for Antarctica.[354]
Memorial to Innocent Victims of Oppression, Violence and War Plaque in pavement Broad Sanctuary 1996
Unveiled 10 October 1996 by Queen Elizabeth II.[355]
Golden Jubilee Sundial

Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II

Analemmatic sundial in pavement Old Palace Yard

51°29′56″N 0°07′34″W / 51.498955°N 0.126131°W / 51.498955; -0.126131 (Golden Jubilee Sundial)

2002
Quentin Newark Parliament’s gift to the Queen on her Golden Jubilee. The inscription around the rim is from Henry VI, Part 3: To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, thereby to see the minutes how they run: how many makes the hour full complete, how many hours brings about the day, how many days will finish up the year, how many years a mortal man may live.[356]
Nelson Mandela
Category:Nelson Mandela statue, Parliament Square, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Nelson Mandela statue, Parliament Square, Westminster on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′35″W / 51.5008°N 0.1265°W / 51.5008; -0.1265 (Winston Churchill)

2007 Ian Walters
Unveiled 29 August 2007. Westminster Council had earlier refused permission for placing the statue in Trafalgar Square adjacent to South Africa House.[357] On a visit to London in 1961, Mandela had joked that one day his statue would replace that of Jan Smuts; they now both have statues in Parliament Square.[358]
David Lloyd George Statue Parliament Square

51°30′03″N 0°07′36″W / 51.500783°N 0.126700°W / 51.500783; -0.126700 (David Lloyd George)

2007 (unveiled) Glynn Williams
Unveiled 25 October 2007 by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Stands on a plinth of slate from Penrhyn Quarry, North Wales.[359]

Whitehall / Horse Guards

Whitehall is the street leading from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square, on which there are several notable memorials, and is home to Horse Guards.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Cádiz Memorial Memorial Horse Guards Road

51°30′15″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5042°N 0.1273°W / 51.5042; -0.1273 (Cádiz Memorial)

1814 (base)
A French mortar mounted on a Chinese dragon, presented by Spain in thanks for Wellington's lifting of the Siege of Cádiz in 1812. The base was made in 1814 at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.[360] Grade II
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Category:Statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, in Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, in Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Whitehall, opposite the Old War Office

51°30′19″N 0°07′36″W / 51.505243°N 0.126614°W / 51.505243; -0.126614 (Prince George, Duke of Cambridge)

1907 Adrian Jones John Belcher Unveiled 15 June 1907.[361] Jones was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order for this work.[362] In 2012 the sword was broken off by a man who had stripped naked and mounted the statue in what was described as a "psychotic episode".[363] Grade II
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Category:Statue of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, at Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, at Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall

51°30′17″N 0°07′34″W / 51.5048°N 0.1262°W / 51.5048; -0.1262 (Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire)

1909–10 Herbert Hampton Howard Ince Unveiled 14 February 1911. The statue of the Duke in his Garter robes stands on a pedestal of Darley Dale stone. Edward VII, as a close friend of the Duke, took a personal interest in the memorial, asking Hampton to bring the modello to Buckingham Palace for his inspection.[364] Grade II
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
Category:Statue of Clive of India, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Statue of Clive of India, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue King Charles Street, facing Horse Guards Road

51°30′08″N 0°07′45″W / 51.502311°N 0.129242°W / 51.502311; -0.129242 (Clive of India)

1912 John Tweed George Somers Clarke Erected 1912 in the gardens of Gwydyr House; moved to present site in 1916. The statue was the brainchild of Lord Curzon, who felt that Clive had been insufficiently honoured for his role in establishing the British Empire in India. A marble version was also created for erection in Calcutta.[365] Grade II
Cenotaph
Category:Cenotaph, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Cenotaph, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial Whitehall

51°30′10″N 0°07′34″W / 51.502711°N 0.126107°W / 51.502711; -0.126107 (Cenotaph)

1920 Francis Derwent Wood Sir Edwin Lutyens Unveiled 11 November (Armistice Day) 1920 by George V. Lutyens's temporary cenotaph in wood and plaster, designed and built in two weeks in July 1919, proved so popular that this permanent version of the same design was erected the following year. It commemorates the dead of both world wars.[366] Grade I
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley Equestrian statue Horse Guards Road

51°30′18″N 0°07′39″W / 51.5050°N 0.1275°W / 51.5050; -0.1275 (Field Marshal Wolseley)

1920 Sir William Goscombe John
Unveiled 25 June 1920 by the Duke of Connaught. Goscombe John was awarded this commission on the strength of his equestrian bronze of Lord Tredegar in Cathays Park, Cardiff. Trafalgar Square was initially considered as the location for this statue. It was stored for safekeeping at Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, between 1941 and 1949.[367] Grade II
Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Equestrian statue Horse Guards Road

51°30′16″N 0°07′39″W / 51.5045°N 0.1274°W / 51.5045; -0.1274 (Field Marshal Roberts)

1924 Henry Poole after Harry Bates Richard Allison Unveiled 30 May 1924 by the Duke of Connaught.[368] A scaled-down replica of Bates’s 30-foot high bronze of Lord Roberts, erected in Calcutta in 1896. Another, earlier replica by Poole is in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.[369] Grade II
Royal Naval Division Memorial Fountain with obelisk Horse Guards Road

51°30′19″N 0°07′44″W / 51.5054°N 0.1290°W / 51.5054; -0.1290 (Royal Naval Division Memorial)

1925 Eric Broadbent and F. J. Wilcoxson Sir Edwin Lutyens Unveiled 25 April 1925 by Winston Churchill.[370] Inscribed with words from the poem "1914. III. The Dead" by Rupert Brooke, who served in the RND.[371] Put into storage 1939, re-erected outside the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich in 1959, and returned to its original site in 2003.[370] Grade II
Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener Statue Horse Guards Road

51°30′14″N 0°07′41″W / 51.5039°N 0.1280°W / 51.5039; -0.1280 (Lord Kitchener)

1926 John Tweed
Unveiled 9 June 1926 by the Prince of Wales.[372] Set against a stone screen abutting the garden wall of 10 Downing Street.[373] A larger national memorial to Kitchener, the tomb designed by Sir William Reid Dick, had been erected in St Paul's Cathedral the previous year.[372] Grade II
Guards Division War Memorial
Category:Guards Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Guards Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial with sculpture Horse Guards Parade

51°30′16″N 0°07′46″W / 51.504502°N 0.12954°W / 51.504502; -0.12954 (Guards Division War Memorial)

1926 Gilbert Ledward H. Chalton Bradshaw Unveiled 16 October 1926. The bronze figures represent five individual soldiers from the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards; they were cast from captured German guns. After it sustained bomb damage in the Blitz, Ledward asked that some of the "honourable scars of war" be left on the memorial.[374] Grade II
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Category:Earl Haig Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Earl Haig Memorial, London on Wikimedia Commons
Equestrian statue Whitehall

51°30′15″N 0°07′35″W / 51.5043°N 0.1263°W / 51.5043; -0.1263 (Earl Haig)

1937 Alfred Frank Hardiman Stephen Rowland Pierce Unveiled 10 November 1937. The statue aroused great controversy, comparable even with the reaction to Epstein’s early works. The depiction of the horse was deemed to be unnatural; Country Life noted that its legs were in the position for urinating.[375] Haig's widow did not attend the unveiling.[376] Grade II
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Category:Bernard Montgomery statue, Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Bernard Montgomery statue, Whitehall on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Whitehall, outside the Ministry of Defence 1980 Oscar Nemon
Unveiled 6 June 1980 by the Queen Mother. The texture of the lower parts of the statue was achieved by mixing old plaster from the studio floor with fresh plaster at the modelling stage. Another cast stands in Brussels,[377] at a traffic intersection called Montgomery Square.
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Statue Mountbatten Green, off Horse Guards Road

51°30′13″N 0°07′43″W / 51.503607°N 0.12866°W / 51.503607; -0.12866 (Lord Mountbatten of Burma)

1983 Franta Belsky Charles Pollard (Lettering by David Kindersley) Unveiled 2 November 1983 by Queen Elizabeth II. The statue stands on a pedestal at the centre of a low stepped pyramid, a scheme much reduced in ambition from Belsky’s competition-winning design which included fountains representing the four seas. The financial constraints and "a very restrictive brief" resulted in a finished work which dissatisfied the sculptor.[378]
Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Category:William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim statue, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim statue, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Whitehall, outside the Ministry of Defence 1990 Ivor Roberts-Jones David Kindersley (lettering) Unveiled 28 April 1990 by Queen Elizabeth II. Roberts-Jones had fought in the Burma Campaign of World War II, in which Slim was a commander.[379]
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Category:Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, statue in London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, statue in London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Whitehall, outside the Ministry of Defence 1993 (erected) Ivor Roberts-Jones David Kindersley (lettering) Unveiled 25 May 1993.[380]
Brigade of Gurkhas Memorial
Category:The Gurkha Soldier, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:The Gurkha Soldier, London on Wikimedia Commons
Statue Horse Guards Avenue 1997 Philip Jackson after Richard Reginald Goulden Cecil Denny Highton Unveiled 3 December 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II. Modelled on a 1929 sculpture by Goulden in the Foreign Office. The Hong Kong Handover transferred the Gurkhas' headquarters to the United Kingdom, which until that point had no memorial to the brigade.[381]
Royal Tank Regiment Memorial
Category:Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Whitehall Place on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Whitehall Place on Wikimedia Commons
Sculptural group Whitehall Court 2000 Vivien Mallock after George Henry Paulin Christopher Rainsford for HOK International Unveiled 13 June 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II. The group depicts the five-man crew of a World War II-era Comet tank; it is an enlarged version of Paulin’s statuette of 1953 in the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset. Mallock’s husband had been an officer in the RTR in the 1960s.[382]
Monument to the Women of World War II
Category:The Women of World War II, London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:The Women of World War II, London on Wikimedia Commons
Plinth with reliefs Whitehall

51°30′13″N 0°07′34″W / 51.5035°N 0.1262°W / 51.5035; -0.1262 (Monument to the Women of World War II)

2005 John W. Mills Giles Quarme Unveiled 9 July 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II. Around the plinth are reliefs of servicewomen's clothing and protective costumes, appearing as if they have been hung up at the end of a working day.[383]
Memorial to victims of the 2002 Bali bombings
Category:Bali Memorial in London on Wikimedia Commons
Category:Bali Memorial in London on Wikimedia Commons
Memorial Horse Guards Road, rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

51°30′09″N 0°07′46″W / 51.502410°N 0.129572°W / 51.502410; -0.129572 (Victims of the Bali Bombings)

2006 Martin Cook Gary Breeze Unveiled 12 October 2006, the fourth anniversary of the bombings, by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. The memorial consists of a granite globe carved with 202 doves for each of the individuals killed in the bombings, and a wall inscribed with their names.[384]

Works formerly in the borough

This section does not include works which were intended to be temporary installations, such as those on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square.

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Former location Date Artist Architect / Masons Notes
The Charing Cross

Eleanor of Castile

Commemorative cross Charing Cross 1291–
c. 1294
Alexander Abingdon Richard of Crundale and Roger of Crundale The costliest and most elaborate of the Eleanor crosses marking the sites where the Queen's funeral cortège rested on the way to her burial at Westminster Abbey. The master mason Richard of Crundale died in 1293, after which the work was taken up by his brother Roger. The cross was destroyed under the orders of Parliament in 1647.[385]
George I Equestrian statue Leicester Square 1722 c. 1722 John Nost the Elder
A gilded lead replica of Nost's bronze equestrian statue, erected in Dublin in 1722 and now outside the Barber Institute, Birmingham. The horse was cast from Le Sueur's Charles I at Charing Cross. Purchased at the Cannons sale of 1747 and installed in the Square the following year. From the 1780s the statue was neglected and frequently vandalised; by the late nineteenth century only the horse remained, which was sold for £16.[386]
George I Equestrian statue Grosvenor Square 1722 c. 1722 John Nost the Elder
Also of lead, this was probably from the same model as the Leicester Square statue. Bought from Nost's workshop by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1725.[387]
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland Equestrian statue Cavendish Square 1770 Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet
Cheere produced a bronzed lead statuette of the Duke of Cumberland (now in the National Army Museum) in around 1745. In 1770 a full-scale statue differing slightly from this model was erected in Cavendish Square; it was removed in 1868 and melted down.[388] In 2012 a replica made of soap by the Korean artist Meekyoung Shin was installed on the plinth (still in situ) and allowed to erode over the course of a year.[389]
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Equestrian statue Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner 1840–6 Matthew Cotes Wyatt Decimus Burton Wyatt’s statue was installed on the Wellington Arch on 30 September 1846. It was regarded as a failure on aesthetic grounds and its gigantic size – 30ft high and 26 ft wide – was felt to be excessive for the commemoration of a single individual. It was removed to the military town of Aldershot, Hampshire, when the arch’s orientation was changed in 1883.[390]
Sir James McGrigor Statue Atterbury Street, Millbank (1909–2003) 1865 Matthew Noble
Unveiled 18 November 1865 at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Moved in 1909 to the newly built Royal Army Medical College, which became the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2003. The statue was then relocated to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.[391]
Mermaid Fountain Sculpture incorporating a birdbath Hyde Park 1897; 1975 (replica) William Robert Colton (original)
The Art Nouveau original was replaced by a replica in concrete in 1975. At some point the figure acquired the name "Little Nell", which does not appear in earlier sources. This in turn disappeared in 2011.[392]
Sir Walter Raleigh Statue Raleigh Green, Whitehall 1959 William McMillan
Unveiled 28 October 1959 by the US Ambassador John Hay Whitney.[393] Moved to a site outside the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich in 2001,[394] as it was out of scale with the statues of Lords Montgomery, Slim and Alanbrooke which had since been erected on the green.[395]
Stag Sculpture Stag Place, now Cardinal Place, Victoria 1963 Edward Bainbridge Copnall Howard, Fairbairn & Partners A late addition to the complex, the sculpture was intended to recall the Stag Brewery which had stood on the site. Removed in 1997 to the Kent Millennium River Walk, Maidstone.[396]
One Nation Under CCTV Mural Newman Street, Fitzrovia 2008 Banksy
To produce this work Banksy erected and dismantled three storeys of scaffolding without being observed, despite the site being behind a tall fence and in full view of a CCTV camera.[397] Westminster Council destroyed the work as an example to graffiti artists.[398]

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