List of public art in the London Borough of Merton
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Merton.
Map of public art in the London Borough of Merton
Merton Park
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Merton War Memorial | St Mary's churchyard 51°24′37″N 0°12′08″W / 51.4104°N 0.2021°W |
1920 (designed); erected 1921 | H. P. Burke Downing | Memorial cross | Grade II | [1]
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Mitcham
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Mitcham War Memorial | Lower Green West 51°24′09″N 0°10′12″W / 51.4024°N 0.1699°W |
1920 | ? | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 21 November 1920.[2]
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Morden
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Lion and unicorn | Entrance to King George's Field, Tudor Drive, Lower Morden | 1940s | ? | ? | Relief | |||
Kingfisher | Over exit from Garth Road Recycling Depot | as at March 2012 | — |
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Raynes Park
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Raynes Park War Memorial | St Saviour's churchyard 51°24′20″N 0°13′46″W / 51.4055°N 0.2295°W |
1920–1921 (erected) | T. Mewburn Crook | Arthur Blomfield | Memorial cross | Grade II | [3]
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Wimbledon
[edit]- Part of Wimbledon lies outside the borough of Merton; for other works located there, see List of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth § Wimbledon
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Diana with a Fawn | Cannizaro Park 51°25′32″N 0°13′55″W / 51.4256°N 0.2319°W |
1843 | ? | — | Statue | Grade II | [4] | |
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Joseph Toynbee Memorial Fountain | Wimbledon Hill Road, at the junction with Belvedere Grove 51°25′27″N 0°12′56″W / 51.4243°N 0.2156°W |
1868 | — | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | [5] |
Busts of William Shakespeare and John Milton | Outside Wimbledon Library 51°25′20″N 0°12′30″W / 51.4222°N 0.2084°W |
1886 | ? | ? | Architectural sculpture | [6] | ||
Laetitia and globe | On roof of New Wimbledon Theatre 51°25′09″N 0°12′06″W / 51.4193°N 0.2016°W |
1910 (removed for safety in war 1939; reinstated 1991) | ? | Cecil Massey and Roy Young | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [7] | |
War memorial | St Winefride's Church, Latimer Road 51°25′11″N 0°11′38″W / 51.4196°N 0.1938°W |
After 1918 | ? | — | Calvary | Grade II | [8] | |
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Wimbledon War Memorial | Parkside 51°25′34″N 0°13′20″W / 51.4262°N 0.2223°W |
1921 | Charles Leonard Hartwell | Thomas Graham Jackson | War memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 5 November 1921.[9] |
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King's Royal Rifle Corps War Memorial | Wimbledon Common 51°26′18″N 0°13′49″W / 51.4383°N 0.2302°W |
1929 | ? | — | War memorial | Grade II | [10] |
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Statue of Fred Perry | All-England Club 51°26′03″N 0°12′49″W / 51.4343°N 0.2135°W |
1984 | David Wynne | — | Statue | — | Unveiled by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.[11] |
Concourse | Wimbledon station 51°25′16″N 0°12′22″W / 51.42111°N 0.20611°W |
1998 | Bruce Williams | — | Sculpture | — | Laser cut images of crowds watching tennis at Wimbledon[12] | |
arthur (stag) | Outside Wimbledon station 51°25′16″N 0°12′26″W / 51.4212°N 0.2071°W |
2012 | Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood | — | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 21 June 2012.[13][14] | |
Statue of Sister Nivedita | Outside Ricards Lodge High School, Lake Road 51°25′43″N 0°12′15″W / 51.4286°N 0.2042°W |
2023 | Nirjan De and Sarada Sarkar | — | Statue | — | [15][16]
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References
[edit]- ^ Historic England. "War Memorial (1390833)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ Historic England. "Mitcham War Memorial (1448269)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "War Memorial, St Saviours Church (1390947)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Diana with Fawn at extreme north west corner of park (1286374)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Drinking fountain at junction with Belvedere Grove (1080896)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Wimbledon Library
- ^ History of New Wimbledon Theatre
- ^ Historic England. "Wimbledon (St Winefride's) War Memorial (1445651)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Wimbledon (Includes the 1921 mass produced roll of honour)". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) War Memorial (1445581)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Matthews 2018, p. 232.
- ^ "Concourse | Bruce Williams". Axisweb. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "arthur (stag)". Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Stag Sculpture, Wimbledon Station. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ Bulmer, Joseph (17 July 2023). "Statue unveiled commemorating life and works of Torrington's Sister Nivedita". North Devon Today. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Goswami, Tarun (15 May 2023). "Sister Nivedita's statue to come up at Wimbledon". The Statesman (India). Retrieved 22 May 2024.
Bibliography
[edit]- Matthews, Peter (2018). London's Statues and Monuments. Oxford: Shire Publications.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Merton at Wikimedia Commons