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Bloomsbury

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Main article: Bloomsbury
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Statue of George I Atop the spire of St George's Church

51°31′03″N 0°07′30″W / 51.51762°N 0.12498°W / 51.51762; -0.12498 		1730 Nicholas Hawksmoor Architectural sculpture Grade I [1]

More images 		Statue probably of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen Square

51°31′19″N 0°07′22″W / 51.52207°N 0.12274°W / 51.52207; -0.12274 		1775 c. 1775 ? — Statue Grade II [2]

More images 		Statue of Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford Russell Square

51°31′16″N 0°07′32″W / 51.52118°N 0.12543°W / 51.52118; -0.12543 		1809 Richard Westmacott — Statue Grade II [3]

More images 		Statue of Charles James Fox Bloomsbury Square

51°31′09″N 0°07′24″W / 51.51929°N 0.12327°W / 51.51929; -0.12327 		1816 Richard Westmacott — Statue Grade II* [4]

More images 		Statue of John Cartwright Cartwright Gardens

51°31′37″N 0°07′36″W / 51.52685°N 0.12670°W / 51.52685; -0.12670 		1831 George Clarke — Statue Grade II [3]

More images 		The Progress of Civilisation British Museum 1851 Richard Westmacott Robert Smirke Pedimental sculpture Grade I [5]

More images 		Drinking fountain with a figure of the Woman of Samaria Guilford Place opoosite Coram's Fields

51°31′25″N 0°07′10″W / 51.52348°N 0.11945°W / 51.52348; -0.11945 		1870 ? Henry Darbishire Drinking fountain with sculpture Grade II [6]

More images 		Euterpe St George's Gardens

51°31′34″N 0°7′14.3″W / 51.52611°N 0.120639°W / 51.52611; -0.120639 		1898 ? — Statue (formerly architectural sculpture) Grade II Terracotta statue from the demolished Apollo Inn on Tottenham Court Road by Charles Fitzroy Doll.[7]

More images 		Lions King Edward VII Galleries, British Museum, Montague Place 1909 George Frampton John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait Grade I [8]
Statue of Joseph Priestley 30 Russell Square (formerly the Institute of Chemistry) 1914 Gilbert Bayes John James Burnet Architectural sculpture Grade II [9][10]
War memorial Church of the Holy Cross, Cromer Street 1919–1922 Clement William Jewitt Joseph Peacock Architectural sculpture Grade II [11]
War memorial Church of the Holy Cross, Cromer Street ? ? Joseph Peacock Architectural sculpture Grade II [12]

More images 		The Rangers', 12th London Regiment War Memorial Chenies Street 1923 — Leonard Culliford Cenotaph Grade II Unveiled 10 November 1923.[13]

More images 		Memorial to Louisa Aldrich-Blake Tavistock Square

51°31′29″N 0°7′40.9″W / 51.52472°N 0.128028°W / 51.52472; -0.128028 		1926 Arthur George Walker Edwin Lutyens Memorial with bust Grade II [14][15]
Agriculture Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square elevation 1926–1932 Herbert William Palliser Charles William Long Pedimental sculpture Grade II [16][17]
Industry Victoria House, Southampton Row elevation 1926–1932 Herbert William Palliser Charles William Long Pedimental sculpture Grade II [16][17]

More images 		Bust of Hippocrates University College London Building, Gower Place/Gower Street

51°31′30.41″N 0°8′8.09″W / 51.5251139°N 0.1355806°W / 51.5251139; -0.1355806 		1930 William Aumonier Jr. Architectural sculpture — [18]

More images 		Tragedy and Comedy RADA, 62 Gower Street 1930–1931 Alan Durst Relief — [19]

More images 		Memorial to Richard Trevithick Gower Street 1933 Leonard Stanford Merrifield — Relief plaque — [20]
Bust of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough London House (Goodenough College), Mecklenburgh Square 1936 William McMillan Herbert Baker Architectural sculpture Grade II [21][22]
Bust of Thomas Coram Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square 1937 c. 1937 William McMillan J. M. Shepherd Architectural sculpture Grade II [3]

More images 		The Spirit of Brotherhood Congress House, Great Russell Street

51°31′03″N 0°07′43″W / 51.51750°N 0.12858°W / 51.51750; -0.12858 		1958 Bernard Meadows David Aberdeen Architectural sculpture Grade II* [23]

More images 		Statue of Thomas Coram Outside the Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square

51°31′30″N 0°07′17″W / 51.52513°N 0.12149°W / 51.52513; -0.12149 		1963 William McMillan — Statue Grade II [3]

More images 		Statue of Mahatma Gandhi Tavistock Square

51°31′30″N 0°07′45″W / 51.52504°N 0.12904°W / 51.52504; -0.12904 		1968 Fredda Brilliant — Statue Grade II [15]
Beneath the Skin Outside Bupa House, Bloomsbury Way 1991 Peter Randall-Page — Sculpture —

More images 		Humphrey the cat Alf Barrett Playground

51°31′14″N 0°07′17″W / 51.5205°N 0.1215°W / 51.5205; -0.1215 (Humphrey the cat) 		1992 Marcia Solway — Sculpture — Originally placed in Queen Square in 1997, moved to present location in 2003.

More images 		Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone Tavistock Square 1994 Hugh Court — Commemorative stone — [15]
Mosaic path Calthorpe Community Garden

51°31′37″N 0°07′04″W / 51.5270°N 0.1178°W / 51.5270; -0.1178 (Mosaic path) 		1994 Carol Cooper and local people — Mosaic path —

More images 		Statue of Thiruvalluvar Outside School of Oriental and African Studies 1996 — Statue —

More images 		The Green Man Woburn Square

51°31′23.1″N 0°7′45.5″W / 51.523083°N 0.129306°W / 51.523083; -0.129306 		1999 Lydia Kapinska — Sculpture — Inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves (1931).[24]
Peter Pan Great Ormond Street Hospital 2000 Diarmuid Byron O'Connor — Sculpture — [25]

More images 		Memorial to Andrew Meller Queen Square

51°31′18.2″N 0°7′20.7″W / 51.521722°N 0.122417°W / 51.521722; -0.122417 		2001 Patricia Finch — Sculpture — [25]

More images 		Bust of Virginia Woolf Tavistock Square

51°31′27.9″N 0°7′44″W / 51.524417°N 0.12889°W / 51.524417; -0.12889 		2004 (cast of an original of 1931) Stephen Tomlin — Bust — [15][26]
Tinker Bell Great Ormond Street Hospital 2005 Diarmuid Byron O'Connor — Sculpture — [25]
Lions and unicorns fighting for the crown On the spire of St George's Church

51°31′03″N 0°07′30″W / 51.51762°N 0.12498°W / 51.51762; -0.12498 		2006 Tim Crawley Nicholas Hawksmoor Architectural sculpture Grade I [27]
Sundial Torrington Square

51°31′18.8″N 0°7′46.5″W / 51.521889°N 0.129583°W / 51.521889; -0.129583 		2008 — Armillary sphere —
Sam
Patricia Penn 		Queen Square

51°31′16″N 0°7′19.4″W / 51.52111°N 0.122056°W / 51.52111; -0.122056 		2009 (after an original of 1997) ? — Sculpture — Patricia Penn (1914–1992) was a nurse who campaigned against the demolition of historic buildings in the 1970s. The original sculpture donated to the square in her memory was stolen in 2007.[28]

More images 		Bust of Rabindranath Tagore Gordon Square 2011 Shenda Amery — Bust — [29]

More images 		Bust of Noor Inayat Khan Gordon Square 2012 Karen Newman — Bust — [30]
Bust of Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Queen Square

51°31′20″N 0°07′21″W / 51.522121°N 0.122524°W / 51.522121; -0.122524 		2017 Nick Roberson — Bust — [31]
HWJ Creative mural Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′12″W / 51.5215°N 0.1200°W / 51.5215; -0.1200 (HWJ Creative mural) 		2018 HWJ Creative — Mural — [32]
Double Portrait Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5214°N 0.1203°W / 51.5214; -0.1203 (Double Portrait) 		2020 "CeePil" — Mural — [33][34]
Self Care Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1203°W / 51.5215; -0.1203 		2020 ? — Mural — [33]
Breastfeeding woman Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1203°W / 51.5215; -0.1203 (Breastfeeding woman) 		2020 Hanna Lucatelli — Mural — [33]
The Wink Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W / 51.5215; -0.1204 (The Wink) 		2020 Otto Schade — Mural — [33][35]
Complexities of Love Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W / 51.5215; -0.1204 (Complexities of Love) 		2020 David Puck — Mural — [33][36]
Male face Barbon Close

51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W / 51.5215; -0.1204 (Male face) 		2020 Envol Studio — Mural — [33]
Diaspora Tybalds Estate

51°31′18″N 0°06′43″W / 51.5217°N 0.1120°W / 51.5217; -0.1120 (Diaspora) 		2020 Sara Abdalla — Mural — [37][38]
Flamingoes Tybalds Estate

51°31′16″N 0°07′12″W / 51.5211°N 0.1201°W / 51.5211; -0.1201 (Flamingos) 		2020 Frankie Strand and Angry Dan — Mural — [38]
Reborn Alf Barrett Playground

51°31′14″N 0°07′17″W / 51.5205°N 0.1213°W / 51.5205; -0.1213 (Reborn) 		2020 Fat Heat — Mural — [38][39]


Camden Town

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Statue of Richard Cobden Camden High Street

51°32′05″N 0°08′20″W / 51.53474°N 0.13891°W / 51.53474; -0.13891 		1868 Wills Brothers — Statue Grade II [3]
Memorial to Charles Dibdin St Martin's Gardens

51°32′19″N 0°08′24″W / 51.5386°N 0.1399°W / 51.5386; -0.1399 (Memorial to Charles Dibdin) 		1889 ? — Celtic cross Grade II [40]
War memorial St Michael's Church

51°32′24″N 0°08′30″W / 51.5400°N 0.1416°W / 51.5400; -0.1416 (War memorial at St Michael's Church, Camden Town) 		1920 Clement William Jewitt (with C. J. Marston) — Calvary Grade II [41]
Generations Maitland Park Villas

51°32′51.5″N 0°9′22″W / 51.547639°N 0.15611°W / 51.547639; -0.15611 		1971 Geoffrey Harris — Sculptural group — [42]
Seated figure Westminster Kingsway College on Longford Street

51°31′34″N 0°08′29″W / 51.526041°N 0.141376°W / 51.526041; -0.141376 		1976 Jean Bullock — Sculpture — [43]

More images 		Cat statues Entrance to former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road

51°32′00″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5334°N 0.1395°W / 51.5334; -0.1395 		1996 —
Black cat motifs Façade of former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road

51°32′01″N 0°08′23″W / 51.5335°N 0.1398°W / 51.5335; -0.1398 		1996 —

More images 		Burma Railway Memorial
Far East Prisoners of War 		Junction of Crowndale Road, Eversholt Street and Mornington Street

51°32′06″N 0°08′20″W / 51.5350°N 0.1388°W / 51.5350; -0.1388 (Burma Railway Memorial) 		2012 Chris Roche (1104 Architects) War memorial — Unveiled 21 September 2012[44] by the Viscount Slim, whose father Field Marshal Slim was a commander of the Burma Corps. A granite plaque with an illustration by Ronald Searle, who had been an FEPOW, mounted on a cruciform base of railway sleepers and sections of rail track, alluding to the Burma Railway.[45]

More images 		Statue of Amy Winehouse Stables Market

51°32′33″N 0°08′52″W / 51.5424°N 0.1478°W / 51.5424; -0.1478 (Statue of Amy Winehouse) 		2014 Scott Eaton — Statue — Unveiled 14 September 2014, which would have been the singer's 31st birthday, by the actress Barbara Windsor, a friend of hers.[46]
Horses Stables Market

51°32′31″N 0°08′50″W / 51.54196°N 0.14729°W / 51.54196; -0.14729 		Sculpture —


Covent Garden

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Main article: List of public art in Covent Garden § London Borough of Camden

Euston Road

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Main article: Euston Road
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Caryatids St Pancras New Church

51°31′39″N 0°07′48″W / 51.52742°N 0.12990°W / 51.52742; -0.12990 		John Charles Felix Rossi William Inwood and Henry William Inwood Architectural sculpture Grade I
Britannia St Pancras railway station, Pancras Road elevation

51°31′49″N 0°07′28″W / 51.53025°N 0.12455°W / 51.53025; -0.12455 		George Gilbert Scott Architectural sculpture Grade I

More images 		Statue of Robert Stephenson Euston railway station

51°31′40″N 0°07′57″W / 51.52786°N 0.13257°W / 51.52786; -0.13257 		1871 Carlo Marochetti — Statue Grade II [47]
War memorial
 King's Cross railway station 1920 Panels in steel frames Unveiled 10 June 1923 by Earl Haig. Reinstalled in its current configuration in 2013, with the placement of the panels based on that of the figures in John Singer Sargent's painting Gassed (1919).[48]

More images 		London and North Western Railway War Memorial Outside Euston railway station

51°31′38″N 0°07′57″W / 51.5272°N 0.13258°W / 51.5272; -0.13258 		1921 Ambrose Neale Reginald Wynn Owen War memorial Grade II* [49]
Euston Arch tile motif Euston tube station, Victoria line platforms 1968 Tom Eckersley Ceramic mural —
Five crowns on a cross tile motif King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Victoria line platforms 1968 Tom Eckersley Ceramic mural —

More images 		Piscator
Erwin Piscator 		Forecourt of Euston railway station 1980 Eduardo Paolozzi Sculpture — [50]

More images 		Newton
Isaac Newton 		Forecourt of the British Library

51°31′45″N 0°07′39″W / 51.52904°N 0.12762°W / 51.52904; -0.12762 		1995 Eduardo Paolozzi Sculpture Grade I [50]

More images 		Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw Shaw Theatre (entrance on Ossulston Street)

51°31′43.9″N 0°7′40.8″W / 51.528861°N 0.128000°W / 51.528861; -0.128000 		2002 (after an original of 1971) Keith Grant Sculpture — [51]
Archangel Michael
Victims of the 7 July 2005 bombings 		St Pancras New Church

51°31′36.9″N 0°7′48.4″W / 51.526917°N 0.130111°W / 51.526917; -0.130111 		2004 Emily Young — Sculpture — [52]
Monolith and Shadow Main entrance of University College Hospital on Euston Road 2005 John Aiken Sculpture — [53]

More images 		The Meeting Place St Pancras railway station 2007 Paul Day — Sculpture — [54]

More images 		Statue of John Betjeman St Pancras railway station 2007 Martin Jennings — Statue — [55]
Unity Unison headquarters 2011 Wendy Taylor Sculpture — [56]
Statue of Matthew Flinders Euston railway station 2014 Mark Richards — Statue — [57]

More images 		Statue of Nigel Gresley King's Cross railway station 2016 Hazel Reeves — Statue — [58]
Full Circle King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Northern line and Piccadilly line concourses 2009–2011 Knut Henrik Henriksen Installation — A segment of a circle, corresponding to the "lost" area below the floor, is set against the partly circular end wall of each of the tunnels.[59]
War memorial
Workers at St Pancras station 		St Pancras railway station 2018 Fabian Peake Memorial wall with vitreous enamel plaques Inscribed with the job titles of workers at the station during both world wars. There had been plans for a war memorial at the station since 1921, but they were unrealised for lack of funds.[60]


Regent's Place

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Main article: Regent's Place
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		The Battle of Cape St Vincent Regent's Place Plaza 1826 c. 1826 Edward Hodges Baily Relief — One of two monumental reliefs intended for what became Marble Arch.[61][62]

More images 		Reflection 350 Euston Road 2001 Antony Gormley Sculpture — [63]
The Fan, or Big Fan Triton Square 2003 Michael Craig-Martin Lightbox installation — The artist's first major outdoor commission.[64][65]
Reciprocal Passage Work Triton Square Mall 2003 Liam Gillick Installation — [62][66]
A Couple of Ripe, Ornamental Pineapples Longford Street 2010 Siôn Parkinson Installation — [62][67]
Regent's Place Pavilion Triton Street 2010 — Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke Pavilion — [68]
Ruth Walking in Jeans 4 Triton Square 2012 Julian Opie Installation — [62][69]
Opening/Capture Regent's Place Plaza Langlands & Bell Sculptural seating — The artists' first public commission in the United Kingdom.[62]


Fitzrovia

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Main article: Fitzrovia
Part of Fitzrovia lies outside Camden; for works not listed here see List of public art in St Marylebone § Fitzrovia.
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
"Warren" tile motif Warren Street tube station, Victoria line platforms 1968 Alan Fletcher Ceramic mural —

More images 		View Fitzroy Square

51°31′22.6″N 0°8′22.7″W / 51.522944°N 0.139639°W / 51.522944; -0.139639 		1977 Naomi Blake — Sculpture —
Fitzrovia Mural Whitfield Gardens

51°31′15″N 0°08′06″W / 51.520765°N 0.135089°W / 51.520765; -0.135089 (Fitzrovia Mural) 		1980 Simon Barber and Mick Jones — Mural — The mural depicts "various unnamed characters of Fitzrovia and greedy speculators". Barber painted the bottom half and Jones (son of the trade unionist Jack Jones) the top half. As of 2013 the work was in poor condition.[70]

More images 		Statue of Francisco de Miranda Corner of Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street 1990 (after an original of 1895) After Rafael de la Cova — Statue — Stands close to 58 Grafton Way ("Casa Miranda"), where the Venezuelan revolutionary lived with his English wife from 1802 to 1810.[71]
The One and The Many Fitzroy Place 2015 Peter Randall-Page — Sculpture — [72]


Gospel Oak

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Main article: Gospel Oak
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		War memorial Church of All Hallows

51°33′20″N 0°09′27″W / 51.5556°N 0.1574°W / 51.5556; -0.1574 (War memorial at the Church of All Hallows, Gospel Oak) 		1918 ? — Calvary Grade II [73]


Hampstead

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Main article: Hampstead
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Virgin and Child St Mary's Church, on façade of tower

51°33′25″N 0°10′50″W / 51.556967°N 0.18045°W / 51.556967; -0.18045 		1850 c. 1850 William Wardell Statue in niche Grade II*
Roebuck Tympanum of the Roebuck pub, Pond Street

51°33′14″N 0°10′03″W / 51.5538°N 0.1674°W / 51.5538; -0.1674 		Late 1860s ? ? Architectural sculpture Grade II [74]

More images 		Drinking fountain Rosslyn Hill

51°33′18″N 0°10′25″W / 51.554977°N 0.17362°W / 51.554977; -0.17362 		1875 c. 1875 ? ? Drinking fountain Grade II [75]

More images 		Drinking fountain
William Warburton Pearce 		South End Green

51°33′15″N 0°09′55″W / 51.5542°N 0.1654°W / 51.5542; -0.1654 		1880 J. H. Evins (designer) J. Holland (builder) Drinking fountain Grade II [76]

More images 		Chalybeate well
Susanna Noel 		Well Walk

51°33′33″N 0°10′24″W / 51.559177°N 0.17345°W / 51.559177; -0.17345 		1882 H. S. Legg Grade II

More images 		War memorial St John-at-Hampstead

51°33′19″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5553°N 0.1803°W / 51.5553; -0.1803 (War memorial at St John-at-Hampstead) 		1920 c. 1920 — Temple Moore Memorial cross and balustrade Grade II [77]
Woman Outside 28A High Street

51°33′21″N 0°10′36″W / 51.55591°N 0.17672°W / 51.55591; -0.17672 		Architectural sculpture — [78]
War memorial Christ Church

51°33′35″N 0°10′38″W / 51.5596°N 0.1771°W / 51.5596; -0.1771 (War memorial at Christ Church, Hampstead) 		? — Celtic cross Grade II [79]
Doo Wah Diddy Royal Free Hospital Helen Sinclair — Sculpture — [80]


Hampstead Heath

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Main article: Hampstead Heath
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Hampstead War Memorial Junction of Spaniards Road and North End Way

51°33′46″N 0°10′47″W / 51.562792°N 0.179597°W / 51.562792; -0.179597 		1922 — Reginald Blomfield Obelisk Grade II [81][82]
Mural Platforms of Hampstead Heath railway station 2011 Johnson Tiles and Clare Woods — Ceramic mural — [83]


Highgate

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Highgate is partly located outside the borough of Camden; for works not listed here see the relevant sections for the boroughs of Haringey and Islington.
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet Waterlow Park

51°34′09″N 0°08′42″W / 51.56919°N 0.14503°W / 51.56919; -0.14503 		1900 Frank Taubman — Statue Grade II [84]

More images 		War memorial United Reformed Church

51°34′12″N 0°08′57″W / 51.5701°N 0.1492°W / 51.5701; -0.1492 (War memorial at Highgate United Reformed Church) 		1920 c. 1920 Herbert Ibberson — Memorial cross Grade II [85]
War memorial St Anne's Church

51°33′45″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5625°N 0.1515°W / 51.5625; -0.1515 (War memorial at St Anne's Church, Highgate) 		1920 c. 1920 ? — Memorial cross Grade II [86]

More images 		Tomb of Karl Marx Highgate Cemetery

51°33′58″N 0°08′38″W / 51.56623°N 0.14379°W / 51.56623; -0.14379 		1956 Laurence Bradshaw — Bust Grade I [87]


Kentish Town

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Main article: Kentish Town
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
War memorial Church of St Silas the Martyr After 1918 ? Calvary [88]
Fletcher Court artwork Ingestre Road Estate

51°33′22″N 0°08′33″W / 51.5561°N 0.1424°W / 51.5561; -0.1424 		2019 Laurie Nouchka Mural, 3D maps, audio — [89][90]
Botanical murals Ingestre Road Estate

51°33′23″N 0°08′34″W / 51.5565°N 0.1429°W / 51.5565; -0.1429 		September 2020 Clara and Mary Mural — [91][92]


Holborn

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Main article: Holborn
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Statue of Thomas More Thomas More Chambers, 51 and 52 Carey Street 1886 Robert Smith George Sherrin Statue in niche Grade II [93][94]

More images 		Statue of John Bunyan Baptist Church House, Southampton Row 1903 Richard Garbe Arthur Keen Statue in niche Grade II* [95]
Statue of Edward I 114 and 115 High Holborn c. 1903–1904 Richard Garbe Arthur Keen Architectural sculpture Grade II
Statue of Edward VII 114 and 115 High Holborn c. 1903–1904 Richard Garbe Arthur Keen Architectural sculpture Grade II
Bust of Charles Dickens Holborn Bars, High Holborn 1907 Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald Alfred Waterhouse Bust [96]

More images 		Statue of Francis Bacon South Square, Gray's Inn 1912 F. W. Pomeroy — Statue Grade II [97]

More images 		Memorial to Margaret Ethel MacDonald Lincoln's Inn Fields 1914 Richard Reginald Goulden Memorial seat with sculpture Grade II [98]

More images 		Lincoln's Inn War Memorial New Square, Lincoln's Inn 1921 War memorial Grade II Unveiled 16 March 1921.[99]
Britannia with Arab Traders, a Big Game Hunter and His Bearer, and Animals Africa House, 70 Kingsway 1922 Benjamin Clemens Trehearne and Norman Architectural sculpture Grade II [100]

More images 		Prudential Assurance Company War Memorial
(World War I) 		Waterhouse Square 1922 Ferdinand Victor Blundstone War memorial Grade II* Unveiled 2 March 1922.[101]
Memorial to Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden Lincoln's Inn Fields 1929 Arthur George Walker (lost bust) Edwin Lutyens Pedestal in the form of a seat Grade II [102][103]

More images 		Prudential Assurance Company War Memorial
(World War II) 		Waterhouse Square 1950 Ferdinand Victor Blundstone War memorial Grade II* Unveiled 23 March 1950.[104]
Pearl Assurance Company Heraldic Relief High Holborn 1967–1969 Edward Bainbridge Copnall Relief [105]

More images 		Bust of John Hunter Lincoln's Inn Fields 1979 Nigel Boonham — Bust — [106]

More images 		Bust of Bertrand Russell Red Lion Square 1980 Marcelle Quinton — Bust — [107]

More images 		Camdonian Lincoln's Inn Fields 1980 Barry Flanagan — Sculpture — [108]

More images 		Statue of Fenner Brockway Red Lion Square 1985 Ian Walters — Statue — [3]
Trompe-l'œil panels depicting artefacts in the British Museum Holborn tube station 1988 Allan Drummond Enamel panels — Based on Victorian glass plate negatives which the artist borrowed from the museum.[109]
Dolphin Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields 1989 Anna Richtner Pentney Architectural sculpture —
Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Lincoln's Inn Fields 1998 War memorial — Unveiled 14 May 1998.[110]

More images 		Square the Block London School of Economics New Academic Building, corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street

51°30′54″N 0°7′6.8″W / 51.51500°N 0.118556°W / 51.51500; -0.118556 		2009 Richard Wilson Architectural sculpture — [111]


Regent's Park

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Part of Regent's Park lies outside the borough of Camden; for works not listed here see the list of public art in St Marylebone.

Regent's Park is one of London's Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Readymoney Drinking Fountain Broad Walk

51°31′58″N 0°09′03″W / 51.5328°N 0.1507°W / 51.5328; -0.1507 (Readymoney Drinking Fountain) 		1869 Henry Ross Robert Keirle Drinking fountain Grade II A gift from the Indian industrialist Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck.[112] The fountain straddles the boundary line between Camden and Westminster.

More images 		The Three Graces Cambridge Gate 1875–1880 Joseph Kremer T. Archer and A. Green Sculptural groups Grade II Four sculptural groups in terracotta atop the gate piers to the north and south of the street.[113]

More images 		Matilda Fountain
Matilda Kent 		Gloucester Gate

51°32′08″N 0°08′51″W / 51.53552°N 0.14741°W / 51.53552; -0.14741 		1878 Joseph Durham — Fountain with sculpture Grade II [114]
War memorial St Mary Magdalene's Church, Munster Square (facing Osnaburgh Street) After 1918 Architectural sculpture Grade II* [115]
The Martyrdom of Saint Pancras Gloucester Gate Bridge 2003–2006 c. 2003–2006 Stuart Bamford Smith after Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna William Booth Scott Reliefs Grade II Two identical bronze reliefs, the composition based on one of Fucigna's originals of 1878. Fucigna's other relief, not replicated, showed Pope Marcellinus blessing the saint.[116][117]


Somers Town

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Main article: Somers Town, London
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Saint Pancras Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road 1896 Harry Hems Charles Robert Baker King Statue in niche — [118]
War memorial St Mary's Church, Eversholt Street ? Memorial cross Grade II [119]


Swiss Cottage

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Main article: Swiss Cottage
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		The Pursuit of Ideas Hilgrove Estate, Finchley Road 1960 Leon Underwood — Sculpture — [120]

More images 		The Hampstead Figure Adelaide Road 1964 F. E. McWilliam — Abstract sculpture Grade II Moved to this site in 2019 from its original location on Avenue Road, north of Swiss Cottage Library.[121]

More images 		Statue of Sigmund Freud Belsize Lane/Fitzjohns Avenue

51°32′46″N 0°10′32″W / 51.54620°N 0.17560°W / 51.54620; -0.17560 		1970 (current location since 1998) Oscar Nemon — Statue Grade II [3]


West Hampstead

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Main article: West Hampstead
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Memorial to Beryl Gilroy West Hampstead Primary School

51°33′03″N 0°11′57″W / 51.5509°N 0.1993°W / 51.5509; -0.1993 (Memorial to Beryl Gilroy) 		2022 Fipsi Seilern Mural painting — Unveiled 1 July 2022.[122]


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