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.
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Bloomsbury
Main page: 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 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 | Tympanum of the British Museum | 1851 | Richard Westmacott | Robert Smirke | Architectural 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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | Architectural sculpture | 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 | ||
Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone | Tavistock Square | 1994 | Hugh Court | N/A | Commemorative stone | 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 |
Camden Town
Main page: 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 | ||
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 | ||
Memorial to Charles Dibdin | St Martin's Gardens | 1889 | ? | N/A | Celtic cross | 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 | 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 | Camden Stables Market | 2014 | Scott Eaton | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Horses | Camden Stables Market 51°32′31″N 0°08′50″W / 51.54196°N 0.14729°W |
Sculpture | N/A |
Covent Garden
Main page: List of public art in Covent Garden#London Borough of Camden
Euston Road
Main page: 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 side 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 | ||
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 | University College Hospital | 2005 | John Aiken | Sculpture | N/A | |||
The Meeting Place | St Pancras railway station | 2007 | Paul Day | N/A | 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 |
Fitzrovia
Main page: 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 |
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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 |
Hampstead
Main page: 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 | ||||
Woman | Outside 28A High Street 51°33′21″N 0°10′36″W / 51.55591°N 0.17672°W |
Architectural sculpture | N/A |
Hampstead Heath
Main page: 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
Main page: Highgate
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 | ||
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 |
Holborn
Main page: 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. | |||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Dolphin | Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1989 | Anna Richtner Pentney | Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||
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 | |||
Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial | Lincoln's Inn Fields | War memorial | N/A |
Regent's Park
- Part of Regent's Park lies outside the borough of Camden; for works not listed here see 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. |
Swiss Cottage
Main page: Swiss Cottage
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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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 |
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