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John Keats at Guy's Hospital, London (12375849294)
Stuart Williamson's statue of John Keats (2007), Guy's Hospital

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Southwark.

Bankside

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Poured Lines by Ian Davenport, Southwark Street, London SE1.jpg Poured Lines Southwark Street 2006 Davenport, IanIan Davenport N/A Painting N/A The largest outdoor painting in Britain.
Greyworld Monument to an Unknown Artist Holland Street London 01.JPG Monument to the Unknown Artist Sumner Street 2007 greyworld N/A Animatronic statue N/A
Ivan Murray A Family in Residence 02.JPG A Family in Residence Neo Bankside 2012 Murray, IvanIvan Murray N/A Sculptural group N/A

Bermondsey

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
The King's Arms (7327432882).jpg Royal Arms of George III Façade of King's Arms pub, Newcomen Street 1728 c. 1728 N/A N/A Architectural sculpture (relief) Grade II Originally stood on a gateway that spanned the old London Bridge. Placed on the pub's façade soon after it was completed in 1890.
Northern Side of the Thomas Guy Statue at Guys Hospital.jpg Statue of Thomas Guy Guy's Hospital

51°30′15″N 0°05′16″W / 51.5043°N 0.0879°W / 51.5043; -0.0879 (Statue of Thomas Guy)
1731 Scheemakers, PeterPeter Scheemakers N/A Statue Grade II
Memorial to James Braidwood Tooley Street 1862 Gardiner, Samuel HenrySamuel Henry Gardiner N/A Relief
Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington in Tooley Street.jpg Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington Tooley Street

51°30′10″N 0°04′41″W / 51.5029°N 0.0781°W / 51.5029; -0.0781 (Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington)
1910 March, SydneySydney March N/A Statue Grade II
Statue Of Viscount Nuffield-Guys Hospital-London.jpg Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield Guy's Hospital

51°29′12″N 0°04′10″W / 51.4866°N 0.0695°W / 51.4866; -0.0695 (Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield)
1949 Lambert, MauriceMaurice Lambert N/A Statue N/A
Bust of Ernest Bevin, Tooley Street, London (2012).jpg Bust of Ernest Bevin Tooley Street

51°30′10″N 0°04′40″W / 51.5028°N 0.0779°W / 51.5028; -0.0779 (Bust of Ernest Bevin)
1955 Shone-Jones, ErnestErnest Shone-Jones after Edwin Whitney-Smith N/A Bust N/A
The Navigators, HDR.jpg The Navigators Hay's Galleria 1987 Kemp, DavidDavid Kemp
Horselydown Square (3721210243).jpg Waterfall Horselydown Square 1991 Donaldson, AntonyAntony Donaldson Fountain with sculpture N/A
Sculpture on the Waterfront, Bermondsey (geograph 2098015).jpg Exotic Cargo St Saviour's Dock footbridge, Butler's Wharf 1995 Randall-Page, PeterPeter Randall-Page N/A Sculpture N/A
The Statue of John Keats in the London Borough of Southwark.jpg Statue of John Keats Guy's Hospital 2007 Williamson, StuartStuart Williamson N/A Statue N/A
The Bermondsey Lion in The Blue (Sep 2012) 2.JPG The Bermondsey Lion The Blue

51°29′33″N 0°03′49″W / 51.4924°N 0.0636°W / 51.4924; -0.0636 (The Bermondsey Lion)
2011 Boys, KevinKevin Boys N/A Sculpture N/A
Dr Salter's Daydream, Bermondsey, London (1).jpg Dr Salter's Daydream
Alfred Salter
Cherry Gardens

51°30′02″N 0°03′35″W / 51.5006°N 0.0597°W / 51.5006; -0.0597 (Dr Salter's Daydream)
2014 Gorvin, DianeDiane Gorvin N/A Sculptures N/A Replaces a group of the same name installed here in 1991. The seated statue of Dr Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council. The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada.
Albert McKenzie memorial.jpg Memorial to Albert Edward McKenzie Tower Bridge Road 2015 Boys, KevinKevin Boys Wood, TimTim Wood Sculpture N/A
Woman and dog sculpture, Avondale Square (geograph 4435256).jpg Lady with a Greyhound Avondale Square
Bermondsey Tank.jpg Mandela Way T-34 Tank Mandela Way

51°29′35″N 0°04′58″W / 51.4930°N 0.0827°W / 51.4930; -0.0827 (Mandela Way T-34 Tank)
N/A
Sculpture Of 'Jacob' A Dray Horse-Queen Elizabeth Street-London.JPG Jacob the Dray Horse Circle Apartments, Queen Elizabeth Street

51°30′06″N 0°04′28″W / 51.50160°N 0.07438°W / 51.50160; -0.07438 (Jacob the Dray Horse)

Camberwell

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Ben Todd statue2.jpg Statue of Robert Bentley Todd King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill 1863 Noble, MatthewMatthew Noble
St George, Wells Way - War Memorial WWI (cropped).jpg Burgess Park War Memorial 55 Wells Way (formerly St George's Church)

51°28′54″N 0°05′08″W / 51.481784°N 0.085481°W / 51.481784; -0.085481 (Burgess Park War Memorial)
1920 Rosenkrantz, ArildArild Rosenkrantz N/A Statue Grade II Unveiled 19 September 1920.
Statue of General William Booth.jpg Statue of William Booth Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park

51°28′04″N 0°05′19″W / 51.4679°N 0.0886°W / 51.4679; -0.0886 (Statue of William Booth)
1929 Wade, George EdwardGeorge Edward Wade N/A Statue Grade II
Catherine Booth statue.jpg Statue of Catherine Booth Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park

51°28′04″N 0°05′20″W / 51.4679°N 0.0888°W / 51.4679; -0.0888 (Statue of Catherine Booth)
1929 Wade, George EdwardGeorge Edward Wade N/A Statue Grade II
Denmark Hill wolf 2.jpg Run Denmark Hill 2009 Dyer, LeighLeigh Dyer N/A Sculptures N/A

Dulwich

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Dulwich College War Memorial, 2018.jpg Dulwich College War Memorial Dulwich College

51°26′25″N 0°05′03″W / 51.4402°N 0.0842°W / 51.4402; -0.0842 (Dulwich College War Memorial)
1920; 1990 N/A Atkin-Berry, W. H.W. H. Atkin-Berry; John Wells-Thorpe Memorial cross with stelae Grade II Unveiled 17 June 1921 by Major General Sir Webb Gillman.
The Dulwich Estate - DSC05986.JPG Dulwich Old College War Memorial Dulwich Old College

51°26′48″N 0°05′09″W / 51.4468°N 0.0859°W / 51.4468; -0.0859 (Dulwich Old College War Memorial)
1921 N/A W. D. Caröe Memorial cross Grade II
Edward Alleyn and William Allen Sculpture - geograph.org.uk - 1270838.jpg Memorial to Edward Alleyn Dulwich Old College

51°26′49″N 0°05′10″W / 51.4469°N 0.0860°W / 51.4469; -0.0860 (Memorial to Edward Alleyn)
2005 Simson, LouiseLouise Simson N/A Sculptural group N/A
Walking the dog installation.jpg Walking the Dog Dulwich Picture Gallery 2009 Randall-Page, PeterPeter Randall-Page N/A Sculpture N/A Presented by the Art Fund in 2011 to mark the Dulwich Picture Gallery's bicentenary.
Dulwich Park (35116644751).jpg Three Perpetual Chords Dulwich Park 2015 Shawcross, ConradConrad Shawcross N/A Sculpture N/A

Elephant and Castle

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Anelephantwacastle.jpg Elephant and Castle Elephant and Castle 1898 ? N/A Sculpture N/A
War memorial in Walworth Square (48687178638).jpg Southwark Memorial Walworth Square 2018 Hunter, KennyKenny Hunter N/A Sculpture N/A

Kennington

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Brandon Estate Henry Moore (21659971611).jpg Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 Brandon Estate, Cooks Road

51°28′57″N 0°06′15″W / 51.4825°N 0.1043°W / 51.4825; -0.1043 (Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3)
1961 Moore, HenryHenry Moore N/A Sculpture N/A
London, UK - panoramio (141).jpg Segment of the Berlin Wall Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park ? "Indiano" (Jürgen L. Grosse) N/A Segment of wall with graffiti N/A
Soviet War Memorial, London.jpg Soviet War Memorial Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park

51°29′46″N 0°06′35″W / 51.4962°N 0.1096°W / 51.4962; -0.1096 (Soviet War Memorial)
1999 Shcherbakov, SergeiSergei Shcherbakov Breeze, GarryGarry Breeze Sculpture N/A Unveiled 9 May (Victory Day) 1999.

Newington

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Statue of King Alfred the Great, Trinity Church Square, Southwark in March 2011 01.jpg Statue of a king, possibly Alfred the Great Trinity Church Square

51°29′56″N 0°05′37″W / 51.4989°N 0.0936°W / 51.4989; -0.0936 (Statue of a king, possibly Alfred the Great)
? N/A Statue Grade II
Knight on Pocock Street (15143125177) (cropped).jpg The Black Friar Friars House, Blackfriars Road / Pocock Street 1958 Copnall, Edward BainbridgeEdward Bainbridge Copnall Relief

Peckham

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
The History of the Old Kent Road (11).jpg History of the Old Kent Road The Everlasting Arms Ministries (formerly the North Peckham Civic Centre), 600–608 Old Kent Road

51°29′00″N 0°03′56″E / 51.4833°N 0.0655°E / 51.4833; 0.0655 (History of the Old Kent Road)
1964 Kossowski, AdamAdam Kossowski N/A Ceramic mural Grade II

Rotherhithe

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Deal Porters by Philip Bews.jpg Deal Porters Canada Water 1990 Bews, PhilipPhilip Bews N/A Sculptural group N/A Unveiled 19 October 1990 by Jack Jones.
James Walker, Engineer - geograph.org.uk - 1876498 cropped.jpg Bust of James Walker Greenland Dock 1990 Rizzello, MichaelMichael Rizzello N/A Bust N/A
Sunshine Weekly and the Pilgrims Pocket statue.jpg Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket Cumberland Wharf 1991 McLean, PeterPeter McLean N/A Sculptural group N/A
Memorial to Christopher Jones, St Mary's churchyard, Rotherhithe.jpg Memorial to Christopher Jones Churchyard of St Mary's Church 1995 Sargeant, JamieJamie Sargeant N/A Sculptural group N/A

Southwark

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Mosaic roundel at Octavia House in Red Cross Garden, London.jpg The Sower Red Cross Garden

51°30′12″N 0°05′41″W / 51.5033°N 0.0948°W / 51.5033; -0.0948 (The Sower)
1896 After Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford James Powell and Sons (glassmakers) Mosaic Grade II
Here stood the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare 1598 - 1613.jpg Plaque marking the approximate site of the Globe Theatre Park Street 1909 Lantéri, ÉdouardÉdouard Lantéri N/A Plaque with relief N/A Unveiled by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and commissioned by the Shakespeare Reading Society, of which Tree was President.
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial (2017).jpg London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial London Bridge station

51°30′17″N 0°05′10″E / 51.5046°N 0.086°E / 51.5046; 0.086 (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial)
1921 ? N/A Plaques N/A Unveiled 5 October 1921.
War memorial on Borough High Street, south London - geograph.org.uk - 1522091.jpg St Saviour's War Memorial Borough High Street, opposite Talbot's Yard

51°30′15″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5043°N 0.0909°W / 51.5043; -0.0909 (Southwark War Memorial)
1922 Clark, Philip LindseyPhilip Lindsey Clark N/A Statue Grade II*
Alan Collins' Soldier.jpg Minerva Southwark Cathedral 1966 Collins, AlanAlan Collins N/A Statue N/A
The Southwark Gateway Needle.jpg Southwark Gateway Needle London Bridge, at south end

51°30′22″N 0°05′17″W / 51.5062°N 0.0881°W / 51.5062; -0.0881 (Southwark Gateway Needle)
1999 N/A Parry, EricEric Parry Sculpture N/A
More London (416993451).jpg Couple More London Place 2003 Balkenhol, StephanStephan Balkenhol N/A Statues N/A
More London Place - panoramio (1).jpg Full Stop More London 2003 Banner, FionaFiona Banner N/A Sculptures N/A
Evergreen by David Batchelor in March 2011 01.jpg Evergreen The Queen's Walk (More London) 2003 Batchelor, DavidDavid Batchelor N/A Sculpture N/A
Southwark Cathedral, London (4237404776).jpg Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon Churchyard of Southwark Cathedral 2006 Randall-Page, PeterPeter Randall-Page N/A Sculpture N/A Unveiled 22 November 2006 by Elizabeth II.
Blue man borough london.jpg Blue Men Maya House, Borough High Street 2007 Zimbalista, OfraOfra Zimbalista Architectural sculpture N/A
Sir Simon Milton's umpteenth statue (48395786096) (cropped).jpg Statue of Simon Milton Outside One Tower Bridge 2016 Jackson, PhilipPhilip Jackson N/A Statue N/A
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