List of public art in Cornwall facts for kids
This is a list of public art in the county of Cornwall, England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Mercury | Mount Edgcumbe Country Park | Ancient Roman | Unknown | Statue on pedestal | Marble | Life size | Grade II | |||
Wayside cross | Madron | Ancient (at least early medieval) | Granite | Approximately 1 metre | ||||||
Artemis/Diana | Mount Edgcumbe Country Park | unknown | stone | Life size | ||||||
Sir James Tillie | Beside Pentillie Castle, Pillaton | Late 17th century | unknown | Statue on plinth | Lead & stone | Grade II* | ||||
Jubilee Rock | Pendrift Common, Bodmin Moor | Decorated 1810 | Lieut. John Rogers | Decorated rock | Granite | Grade II | Q26435200 | Restored and amended 1859 and 1887 | ||
Lander's Monument | Lemon Street/Falmouth Road, Truro | 1852 | Neville Northey Burnard | Statue on column | Granite | Grade II* | Q17533999 | |||
Humphry Davy | Market Place, Penzance | 1872 | T. & W. Wills | Statue on pedestal | Marble & granite | Life size | Grade II | Q26436847 | ||
Mary (mother of Jesus) | The Bidwell, Botusfleming | 19th century in 14th century restored housing | Unknown | Statue in niche | Below life size | Grade II | ||||
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | below Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash | Early 20th century | Statue | Brass | Life size | |||||
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | below Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash | Early 20th century | After Carlo Marochetti | Bust on pedestal | Brass | |||||
Saint Winwaloe | Gunwalloe | Early 20th century | White stone | Life size | ||||||
Monument to Penn Symons | Victoria Gardens, Saltash | 1901 | Alfred Drury | Relief panel on tapered column | Bronze and stone | Grade II | ||||
War memorial | The Strand, Newlyn | 1920 | Edward Prioleau Warren (architect) & Leonard Stanford Merrifield | Celtic cross with relief panel | Stone and bronze | Grade II | Q66478950 | Monument designed by Warren with relief panel by Merrifield. | ||
War memorial | Boscawen Street, Truro | 1922 | Joseph Whitehead & Sons (sculptor) | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & granite | Grade II | Q26569911 | |||
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry memorial | Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin | Erected 1924 | Leonard Stanford Merrifield | Statue on pedestal and steps | Bronze and granite | Grade II* | Q26585734 | |||
Richard Trevithick | S. Terrace/Cross St./Trevenson St., Camborne | 1928 | Leonard Stanford Merrifield | Statue on pedestal with plaques | Gilded bronze and stone | Below life size | Grade II | Q26647292 | ||
Armstrong memorial | Madron | 1929 | 1929 sculpture group on 19th century chest | Granite | Grade II | |||||
Alice Winand Van Wulfften Palthe, died 1922 | Church Square, Stratton | 1920s or 1930s | Toma Rosandić | Statue on block | Bronze & stone | Life size | Grade II | |||
Saint Michael | Trelissick Road, Hayle | 1934 | Unknown | Statue on base | Freestone statue & granite base | Life size | Grade II | |||
Epidauros II | The Malakoff, St Ives | 1961 | Barbara Hepworth | Abstract sculpture | bronze | |||||
Dual Form | The Guildhall, St Ives | 1965 | Barbara Hepworth | Abstract sculpture | Bronze | |||||
Children | Tresco Abbey Gardens, Tresco, Isles of Scilly | 1991 | David Wynne | Sculpture group | Bronze | Life size | Grade I | |||
Fisherman using rope to fish | Harbour promenade, Newlyn | Late 20th century | Brass/Copper | Life size | ||||||
Grey seal | Pennyland Rocks, Harbour Entrance, Looe | 20th century | Bronze | Life size | ||||||
The Drummer | Lemon Quay, Truro | 2011 | Tim Shaw | Sculpture | Tin and copper | 15ft tall | ||||
Ann Glanville | Saltash | 2013 | Seated statue | Fibreglass | Life size |
See also
- Mount Edgcumbe Country Park — Over a dozen examples of what can be considered art rather than landscaping feature in the country park, including a triumphal arch and numerous decorative public garden ornaments.
- Stone crosses in Cornwall
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