List of public art in the London Borough of Camden facts for kids
This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Camden.
Contents
Bloomsbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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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 |
1730 | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Architectural sculpture | Grade I | |||
Statue probably of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Queen Square 51°31′19″N 0°07′22″W / 51.52207°N 0.12274°W |
1775 | c.? | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Statue of Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford | Russell Square 51°31′16″N 0°07′32″W / 51.52118°N 0.12543°W |
1809 | Richard Westmacott | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Statue of Charles James Fox | Bloomsbury Square 51°31′09″N 0°07′24″W / 51.51929°N 0.12327°W |
1816 | Richard Westmacott | N/A | Statue | Grade II* | ||
Statue of John Cartwright | Cartwright Gardens 51°31′37″N 0°07′36″W / 51.52685°N 0.12670°W |
1831 | George Clarke | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
The Progress of Civilisation | British Museum | 1851 | Richard Westmacott | Robert Smirke | Pedimental sculpture | Grade I | ||
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 |
1870 | ? | Henry Darbishire | Drinking fountain with sculpture | Grade II | ||
Euterpe | St George's Gardens 51°31′34″N 0°7′14.3″W / 51.52611°N 0.120639°W |
1898 | ? | N/A | Statue (formerly architectural sculpture) | Grade II | Terracotta statue from the demolished Apollo Inn on Tottenham Court Road by Charles Fitzroy Doll. | |
Lions | King Edward VII Galleries, British Museum, Montague Place | 1909 | George Frampton | John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait | Grade I | |||
Statue of Joseph Priestley | 30 Russell Square (formerly the Institute of Chemistry) | 1914 | Gilbert Bayes | John James Burnet | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
War memorial | Church of the Holy Cross, Cromer Street | 1919–1922 | Clement William Jewitt | Joseph Peacock | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
War memorial | Church of the Holy Cross, Cromer Street | ? | ? | Joseph Peacock | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
The Rangers', 12th London Regiment War Memorial | Chenies Street | 1923 | N/A | Leonard Culliford | Cenotaph | Grade II | Unveiled 10 November 1923. | |
Memorial to Louisa Aldrich-Blake | Tavistock Square 51°31′29″N 0°7′40.9″W / 51.52472°N 0.128028°W |
1926 | Arthur George Walker | Edwin Lutyens | Memorial with bust | Grade II | ||
Agriculture | Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square elevation | 1926–1932 | Herbert William Palliser | Charles William Long | Pedimental sculpture | Grade II | ||
Industry | Victoria House, Southampton Row elevation | 1926–1932 | Herbert William Palliser | Charles William Long | Pedimental sculpture | Grade II | ||
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 |
1930 | William Aumonier Jr. | Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||
Tragedy and Comedy | RADA, 62 Gower Street | 1930–1931 | Alan Durst | Relief | N/A | |||
Memorial to Richard Trevithick | Gower Street | 1933 | Leonard Stanford Merrifield | N/A | Relief plaque | N/A | ||
Bust of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough | London House (Goodenough College), Mecklenburgh Square | 1936 | William McMillan | Herbert Baker | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
Bust of Thomas Coram | Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square | 1937 | c.William McMillan | J. M. Shepherd | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
The Spirit of Brotherhood | Congress House, Great Russell Street 51°31′03″N 0°07′43″W / 51.51750°N 0.12858°W |
1958 | Bernard Meadows | David Aberdeen | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | ||
Statue of Thomas Coram | Outside the Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square 51°31′30″N 0°07′17″W / 51.52513°N 0.12149°W |
1963 | William McMillan | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi | Tavistock Square 51°31′30″N 0°07′45″W / 51.52504°N 0.12904°W |
1968 | Fredda Brilliant | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Beneath the Skin | Outside Bupa House, Bloomsbury Way | 1991 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Humphrey the cat | Alf Barrett Playground 51°31′14″N 0°07′17″W / 51.5205°N 0.1215°W |
1992 | Marcia Solway | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Originally placed in Queen Square in 1997, moved to present location in 2003. | |
Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone | Tavistock Square | 1994 | Hugh Court | N/A | Commemorative stone | N/A | ||
Mosaic path | Calthorpe Community Garden 51°31′37″N 0°07′04″W / 51.5270°N 0.1178°W |
1994 | Carol Cooper and local people | N/A | Mosaic path | N/A | ||
Statue of Thiruvalluvar | Outside School of Oriental and African Studies | 1996 | N/A | Statue | N/A | |||
The Green Man | Woburn Square 51°31′23.1″N 0°7′45.5″W / 51.523083°N 0.129306°W |
1999 | Lydia Kapinska | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves (1931). | |
Peter Pan | Great Ormond Street Hospital | 2000 | Diarmuid Byron O'Connor | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Memorial to Andrew Meller | Queen Square 51°31′18.2″N 0°7′20.7″W / 51.521722°N 0.122417°W |
2001 | Patricia Finch | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Bust of Virginia Woolf | Tavistock Square 51°31′27.9″N 0°7′44″W / 51.524417°N 0.12889°W |
2004 (cast of an original of 1931) | Stephen Tomlin | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Tinker Bell | Great Ormond Street Hospital | 2005 | Diarmuid Byron O'Connor | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
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 |
2006 | Tim Crawley | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Architectural sculpture | Grade I | ||
Sundial | Torrington Square 51°31′18.8″N 0°7′46.5″W / 51.521889°N 0.129583°W |
2008 | N/A | Armillary sphere | N/A | |||
Sam Patricia Penn |
Queen Square 51°31′16″N 0°7′19.4″W / 51.52111°N 0.122056°W |
2009 (after an original of 1997) | ? | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | 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. | |
Bust of Rabindranath Tagore | Gordon Square | 2011 | Shenda Amery | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Bust of Noor Inayat Khan | Gordon Square | 2012 | Karen Newman | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Bust of Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson | Queen Square 51°31′20″N 0°07′21″W / 51.522121°N 0.122524°W |
2017 | Nick Roberson | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
HWJ Creative mural | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′12″W / 51.5215°N 0.1200°W |
2018 | HWJ Creative | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Double Portrait | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5214°N 0.1203°W |
2020 | "CeePil" | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Self Care | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1203°W |
2020 | ? | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Breastfeeding woman | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1203°W |
2020 | Hanna Lucatelli | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
The Wink | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W |
2020 | Otto Schade | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Complexities of Love | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W |
2020 | David Puck | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Male face | Barbon Close 51°31′17″N 0°07′13″W / 51.5215°N 0.1204°W |
2020 | Envol Studio | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Diaspora | Tybalds Estate 51°31′18″N 0°06′43″W / 51.5217°N 0.1120°W |
2020 | Sara Abdalla | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Flamingoes | Tybalds Estate 51°31′16″N 0°07′12″W / 51.5211°N 0.1201°W |
2020 | Frankie Strand and Angry Dan | N/A | Mural | N/A | ||
Reborn | Alf Barrett Playground 51°31′14″N 0°07′17″W / 51.5205°N 0.1213°W |
2020 | Fat Heat | N/A | Mural | N/A |
Camden Town
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Richard Cobden | Camden High Street 51°32′05″N 0°08′20″W / 51.53474°N 0.13891°W |
1868 | Wills Brothers | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Memorial to Charles Dibdin | St Martin's Gardens 51°32′19″N 0°08′24″W / 51.5386°N 0.1399°W |
1889 | ? | N/A | Celtic cross | Grade II | ||
War memorial | St Michael's Church 51°32′24″N 0°08′30″W / 51.5400°N 0.1416°W |
1920 | Clement William Jewitt (with C. J. Marston) | N/A | Calvary | Grade II | ||
Generations | Maitland Park Villas 51°32′51.5″N 0°9′22″W / 51.547639°N 0.15611°W |
1971 | Geoffrey Harris | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | ||
Seated figure | Westminster Kingsway College on Longford Street 51°31′34″N 0°08′29″W / 51.526041°N 0.141376°W |
1976 | Jean Bullock | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Cat statues | Entrance to former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road 51°32′00″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5334°N 0.1395°W |
1996 | N/A | |||||
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 |
1996 | N/A | |||||
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 |
2012 | Chris Roche (1104 Architects) | War memorial | N/A | Unveiled 21 September 2012 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. | ||
Statue of Amy Winehouse | Stables Market 51°32′33″N 0°08′52″W / 51.5424°N 0.1478°W |
2014 | Scott Eaton | N/A | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 14 September 2014, which would have been the singer's 31st birthday, by the actress Barbara Windsor, a friend of hers. | |
Horses | Stables Market 51°32′31″N 0°08′50″W / 51.54196°N 0.14729°W |
Sculpture | N/A |
Covent Garden
Euston Road
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Caryatids | St Pancras New Church 51°31′39″N 0°07′48″W / 51.52742°N 0.12990°W |
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 |
George Gilbert Scott | Architectural sculpture | Grade I | ||||
Statue of Robert Stephenson | Euston railway station 51°31′40″N 0°07′57″W / 51.52786°N 0.13257°W |
1871 | Carlo Marochetti | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
War memorial Great Northern Railway (WWI) |
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). | ||||
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 |
1921 | Ambrose Neale | Reginald Wynn Owen | War memorial | Grade II* | ||
Euston Arch tile motif | Euston tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | Ceramic mural | N/A | |||
Five crowns on a cross tile motif | King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | Ceramic mural | N/A | |||
Piscator Erwin Piscator |
Forecourt of Euston railway station | 1980 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | N/A | |||
Newton Isaac Newton |
Forecourt of the British Library 51°31′45″N 0°07′39″W / 51.52904°N 0.12762°W |
1995 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | Grade I | |||
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 |
2002 (after an original of 1971) | Keith Grant | Sculpture | N/A | |||
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 |
2004 | Emily Young | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Monolith and Shadow | Main entrance of University College Hospital on Euston Road | 2005 | John Aiken | Sculpture | N/A | |||
The Meeting Place | St Pancras railway station | 2007 | Paul Day | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Statue of John Betjeman | St Pancras railway station | 2007 | Martin Jennings | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Unity | Unison headquarters | 2011 | Wendy Taylor | Sculpture | N/A | |||
Statue of Matthew Flinders | Euston railway station | 2014 | Mark Richards | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Statue of Nigel Gresley | King's Cross railway station | 2016 | Hazel Reeves | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Full Circle | King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Northern line and Piccadilly line concourses | 2009–2011 | Knut Henrik Henriksen | Installation | N/A | 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. | ||
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. |
Regent's Place
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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The Battle of Cape St Vincent | Regent's Place Plaza | 1826 | c.Edward Hodges Baily | Relief | N/A | One of two monumental reliefs intended for what became Marble Arch. | ||
Reflection | 350 Euston Road | 2001 | Antony Gormley | Sculpture | N/A | |||
The Fan, or Big Fan | Triton Square | 2003 | Michael Craig-Martin | Lightbox installation | N/A | The artist's first major outdoor commission. | ||
Reciprocal Passage Work | Triton Square Mall | 2003 | Liam Gillick | Installation | N/A | |||
A Couple of Ripe, Ornamental Pineapples | Longford Street | 2010 | Siôn Parkinson | Installation | N/A | |||
Regent's Place Pavilion | Triton Street | 2010 | N/A | Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke | Pavilion | N/A | ||
Ruth Walking in Jeans | 4 Triton Square | 2012 | Julian Opie | Installation | N/A | |||
Opening/Capture | Regent's Place Plaza | Langlands & Bell | Sculptural seating | N/A | The artists' first public commission in the United Kingdom. |
Fitzrovia
Part of Fitzrovia lies outside Camden; for works not listed here see List of public art in St Marylebone#Fitzrovia § Notes.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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"Warren" tile motif | Warren Street tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Alan Fletcher | Ceramic mural | N/A | |||
View | Fitzroy Square 51°31′22.6″N 0°8′22.7″W / 51.522944°N 0.139639°W |
1977 | Naomi Blake | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Fitzrovia Mural | Whitfield Gardens 51°31′15″N 0°08′06″W / 51.520765°N 0.135089°W |
1980 | Simon Barber and Mick Jones | N/A | Mural | N/A | 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. | |
Statue of Francisco de Miranda | Corner of Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street | 1990 (after an original of 1895) | After Rafael de la Cova | N/A | Statue | N/A | Stands close to 58 Grafton Way ("Casa Miranda"), where the Venezuelan revolutionary lived with his English wife from 1802 to 1810. | |
The One and The Many | Fitzroy Place | 2015 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A |
Gospel Oak
Hampstead
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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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 |
1850 | c.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 |
Late 1860s | ? | ? | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
Drinking fountain | Rosslyn Hill 51°33′18″N 0°10′25″W / 51.554977°N 0.17362°W |
1875 | c.? | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | ||
Drinking fountain William Warburton Pearce |
South End Green 51°33′15″N 0°09′55″W / 51.5542°N 0.1654°W |
1880 | J. H. Evins (designer) | J. Holland (builder) | Drinking fountain | Grade II | ||
Chalybeate well Susanna Noel |
Well Walk 51°33′33″N 0°10′24″W / 51.559177°N 0.17345°W |
1882 | H. S. Legg | Grade II | ||||
War memorial | St John-at-Hampstead 51°33′19″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5553°N 0.1803°W |
1920 | c.N/A | Temple Moore | Memorial cross and balustrade | Grade II | ||
Woman | Outside 28A High Street 51°33′21″N 0°10′36″W / 51.55591°N 0.17672°W |
Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||||
War memorial | Christ Church 51°33′35″N 0°10′38″W / 51.5596°N 0.1771°W |
? | N/A | Celtic cross | Grade II |
Hampstead Heath
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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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 |
1922 | N/A | Reginald Blomfield | Obelisk | Grade II | ||
Mural | Platforms of Hampstead Heath railway station | 2011 | Johnson Tiles and Clare Woods | N/A | Ceramic mural | N/A |
Highgate
- 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 |
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Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet | Waterlow Park 51°34′09″N 0°08′42″W / 51.56919°N 0.14503°W |
1900 | Frank Taubman | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
War memorial | United Reformed Church 51°34′12″N 0°08′57″W / 51.5701°N 0.1492°W |
1920 | c.Herbert Ibberson | N/A | Memorial cross | Grade II | ||
War memorial | St Anne's Church 51°33′45″N 0°09′05″W / 51.5625°N 0.1515°W |
1920 | c.? | N/A | Memorial cross | Grade II | ||
Tomb of Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery 51°33′58″N 0°08′38″W / 51.56623°N 0.14379°W |
1956 | Laurence Bradshaw | N/A | Bust | Grade I |
Kentish Town
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial | Church of St Silas the Martyr | After 1918 | ? | Calvary | |||
Fletcher Court artwork | Ingestre Road Estate 51°33′22″N 0°08′33″W / 51.5561°N 0.1424°W |
2019 | Laurie Nouchka | Mural, 3D maps, audio | N/A | ||
Botanical murals | Ingestre Road Estate 51°33′23″N 0°08′34″W / 51.5565°N 0.1429°W |
September 2020 | Clara and Mary | Mural | N/A |
Holborn
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Thomas More | Thomas More Chambers, 51 and 52 Carey Street | 1886 | Robert Smith | George Sherrin | Statue in niche | Grade II | ||
Statue of John Bunyan | Baptist Church House, Southampton Row | 1903 | Richard Garbe | Arthur Keen | Statue in niche | Grade II* | ||
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 | |||
Statue of Francis Bacon | South Square, Gray's Inn | 1912 | F. W. Pomeroy | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
Memorial to Margaret Ethel MacDonald | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1914 | Richard Reginald Goulden | Memorial seat with sculpture | Grade II | |||
Lincoln's Inn War Memorial | New Square, Lincoln's Inn | 1921 | War memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 16 March 1921. | |||
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 | ||
Prudential Assurance Company War Memorial (World War I) |
Waterhouse Square | 1922 | Ferdinand Victor Blundstone | War memorial | Grade II* | Unveiled 2 March 1922. | ||
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 | ||
Prudential Assurance Company War Memorial (World War II) |
Waterhouse Square | 1950 | Ferdinand Victor Blundstone | War memorial | Grade II* | Unveiled 23 March 1950. | ||
Pearl Assurance Company Heraldic Relief | High Holborn | 1967–1969 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall | Relief | ||||
Bust of John Hunter | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1979 | Nigel Boonham | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Bust of Bertrand Russell | Red Lion Square | 1980 | Marcelle Quinton | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Camdonian | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1980 | Barry Flanagan | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Statue of Fenner Brockway | Red Lion Square | 1985 | Ian Walters | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Trompe-l'œil panels depicting artefacts in the British Museum | Holborn tube station | 1988 | Allan Drummond | Enamel panels | N/A | Based on Victorian glass plate negatives which the artist borrowed from the museum. | ||
Dolphin | Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1989 | Anna Richtner Pentney | Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||
Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1998 | War memorial | N/A | Unveiled 14 May 1998. | |||
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 |
2009 | Richard Wilson | Architectural sculpture | N/A |
Regent's Park
- 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 |
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Readymoney Drinking Fountain | Broad Walk 51°31′58″N 0°09′03″W / 51.5328°N 0.1507°W |
1869 | Henry Ross | Robert Keirle | Drinking fountain | Grade II | A gift from the Indian industrialist Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck. The fountain straddles the boundary line between Camden and Westminster. | |
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. | |
Matilda Fountain Matilda Kent |
Gloucester Gate 51°32′08″N 0°08′51″W / 51.53552°N 0.14741°W |
1878 | Joseph Durham | N/A | Fountain with sculpture | Grade II | ||
War memorial | St Mary Magdalene's Church, Munster Square (facing Osnaburgh Street) | After 1918 | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | ||||
The Martyrdom of Saint Pancras | Gloucester Gate Bridge | 2003–2006 | c.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. |
Somers Town
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Saint Pancras | Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road | 1896 | Harry Hems | Charles Robert Baker King | Statue in niche | N/A | ||
War memorial | St Mary's Church, Eversholt Street | ? | Memorial cross | Grade II |
Swiss Cottage
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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The Pursuit of Ideas | Hilgrove Estate, Finchley Road | 1960 | Leon Underwood | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
The Hampstead Figure | Adelaide Road | 1964 | F. E. McWilliam | N/A | Abstract sculpture | Grade II | Moved to this site in 2019 from its original location on Avenue Road, north of Swiss Cottage Library. | |
Statue of Sigmund Freud | Belsize Lane/Fitzjohns Avenue 51°32′46″N 0°10′32″W / 51.54620°N 0.17560°W |
1970 (current location since 1998) | Oscar Nemon | N/A | Statue | Grade II |
West Hampstead
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to Beryl Gilroy | West Hampstead Primary School 51°33′03″N 0°11′57″W / 51.5509°N 0.1993°W |
2022 | Fipsi Seilern | Mural painting | N/A | Unveiled 1 July 2022. |
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