List of public art in Sandwell
This is a list of public art in Sandwell, in the West Midlands county of England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork in museums.
Bearwood
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
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Voyage | Bearwood Bus Station – Hagley Road West, Bearwood 52°28′20″N 1°58′09″W / 52.472157°N 1.969168°W |
2002 | Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | Centro | Moved to Stone Cross, West Bromwich in 2016. Near the Walsall Road | ||
Bear in a wood | T.C. Hayes - Sandon Road, Bearwood 52°28′37″N 1°58′10″W / 52.476933°N 1.969453°W |
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The Bearwood Tavern bears | The Bearwood Tavern - Bearwood Road, Bearwood 52°28′36″N 1°58′13″W / 52.476802°N 1.970158°W |
Sculpture | Bear sculptures on the turret of The Bear Tavern | |||||||
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The Windswept Pages | Bearwood School, Bearwood Road, Bearwood 52°28′40″N 1°58′13″W / 52.47774°N 1.97017°W |
Natalie Perry, with pupils of the school | Sculpture | Steel | |||||
John Tradescant | Shakespeare Garden - Lightwoods Park 52°28′21″N 1°58′15″W / 52.472494°N 1.970952°W |
2012 | Sculpture | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
Cradley Heath
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Mary Macarthur | Mary Macarthur Gardens, Sydney Road and Lower High Street, Cradley Heath 52°28′14″N 2°05′17″W / 52.470664°N 2.088157°W |
2012 | Luke Perry | Statue | cast steel | 10 ft (3 metres) | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Named after the trade unionist who led the women chainmakers in a strike in 1910 [1][2] | |
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Cradley Column | Tesco Extra, High Street, Cradley Heath 52°28′21″N 2°04′54″W / 52.472405°N 2.081768°W |
2007 | Luke Perry | Sculpture | Metal | 26ft high | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | [3] |
Oldbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Oldbury Ring | McDonald's, Halesowen Street, Oldbury 52°30′08″N 2°01′04″W / 52.502207°N 2.017672°W |
1993 | Doug Cocker | Sculpture | Stainless steel | outer diameter 3m, inner diameter 1.8m, depth 60cm, ribbons 3.5m long | McDonald's and Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | [4] | |
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Furnace | Near Sainsbury's – Halesowen Street, Oldbury 52°30′12″N 2°01′01″W / 52.503291°N 2.016846°W |
Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | Centro | ||||
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The Peacock | Sandwell and Dudley railway station 52°30′32″N 2°00′42″W / 52.508924°N 2.011759°W |
Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | Centro |
Smethwick
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Moontrap | Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station 52°30′06″N 1°58′50″W / 52.501759°N 1.980551°W |
2003 | Mick Thacker and Mark Renn | Public transport interchange | Steel | Centro | |||
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Waiting for Halleys Comet? | St Paul's Road, Smethwick 52°29′57″N 1°58′38″W / 52.49921°N 1.977174°W |
1986 | Francis Gomila | Sculpture | Painted sheet metal | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | [5] | ||
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The Galton Valley Canal Heritage Area | Small park near Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick 52°29′54″N 1°58′20″W / 52.498455°N 1.972319°W |
Sculpture | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | ||||||
The Lions of the Great War | Will be sited near the High Street and Tollhouse Way, Smethwick 52°29′45″N 1°58′15″W / 52.495863°N 1.970812°W |
2018 | Luke Perry | Statue | Bronze | 10ft high | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | A statue of a World War One Sikh soldier will be installed on the High Street |
Tipton
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Tipton Slasher | Coronation Gardens - Tipton 52°31′40″N 2°04′15″W / 52.527687°N 2.0707°W |
1993 | Bill Haynes | Statue | Bronze | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Statue of the boxer William Perry | ||
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Tipton Station archways | Tipton Station 52°31′50″N 2°03′57″W / 52.530458°N 2.065806°W |
Centro | One archway near the Owen Street station entrance depicting local industries. The other archway close to the car park and Robert Road depicting the life of William Perry, the Tipton Slasher |
Wednesbury
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Caryatid Gateway | Wednesbury bus station 52°33′07″N 2°01′24″W / 52.552057°N 2.023394°W |
2004 | Sculpture gateway | Centro | |||||
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Wednesbury reliefs | Exterior of Morrisons supermarket 52°33′03″N 2°01′20″W / 52.550959°N 2.022331°W |
2007 | Set of reliefs | steel | Morrisons | At least four | |||
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Beehive | Morrisons supermarket 52°33′07″N 2°01′22″W / 52.551938°N 2.022847°W |
2007 | Sculpture | steel | Morrisons | ||||
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Wednesbury Parkway windmill | Wednesbury Parkway - Wednesbury 52°32′57″N 2°01′53″W / 52.549283°N 2.031462°W |
Windmill | Centro | ||||||
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Sleipnir | Overlooking Wednesbury Great Western Street tram stop 52°32′54″N 2°01′38″W / 52.548351°N 2.02717°W |
1999 | Steve Field | Sculpture | Centro |
West Bromwich
Town Centre
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Highfields sculpture | Memorial Gardens - West Bromwich 52°31′18″N 1°59′51″W / 52.521659°N 1.997634°W |
Sculpture | Steel | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | |||||||
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Anamorphic Portico | West Bromwich Bus Station - West Bromwich 52°31′02″N 1°59′42″W / 52.517356°N 1.995069°W |
2002 | Steve Field | Sculpture | Stainless steel & mosaic | Centro | [8] | |||
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Feature Steelwork | West Bromwich Bus Station - West Bromwich 52°31′04″N 1°59′45″W / 52.517869°N 1.995831°W |
2002 | Angle Ring | Sculpture | Steel | Centro | [9] | |||
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I am the King of the Castle | High Street, West Bromwich 52°31′08″N 1°59′39″W / 52.518769°N 1.994194°W |
January 30, 1990 | Laura Ford | Sculpture | Bronze | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Originally outside the Queen's Square Shopping Centre, it was removed to be restored in 2012. It was relocated to the bottom end of the High Street [10] | |||
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Cross in Hand | Wesley Methodist Church, High Street, West Bromwich 52°31′09″N 1°59′41″W / 52.519185°N 1.994811°W |
October 1989 | Chris Dunseath | Sculpture | Bronze | approx 160 x 150 x 80cm overall | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Moved from Duchess Parade in 2012, and relocated outside the Wesley Methodist Church on the High Street in 2013 [11] [12] | ||
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The Eagle | Kings Square Shopping Centre, West Bromwich Ringway, West Bromwich 52°31′00″N 1°59′37″W / 52.516622°N 1.993638°W |
January 2015 | Secal Laser Ltd and Fitzgerald Contractors Ltd | Sculpture | Steel | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | [13] |
Great Barr
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Holly Wood Nature Reserve gate | Holly Wood Nature Reserve, Whitecrest Road, Great Barr 52°32′54″N 1°55′32″W / 52.548281°N 1.925456°W |
2012 | Tim Tolkien | Gate | Steel | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | Includes designs by pupils at the neighbouring Whitecrest School |
The Hawthorns
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Aspire | The Hawthorns station – Halfords Lane, West Bromwich 52°30′20″N 1°57′58″W / 52.505581°N 1.966089°W |
Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | Centro | |||||
Tony 'Bomber' Brown | The Hawthorns - West Bromwich Albion 52°30′34″N 1°57′45″W / 52.509464°N 1.962423°W |
2014 | Jonathan Wylder | Statue | Bronze | West Bromwich Albion | Unveiled November 2014 [14] Created by Jonathan Wylder [15] |
Sandwell Valley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Sandwell Valley bridge murals | Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve 52°32′04″N 1°56′53″W / 52.534377°N 1.948144°W |
2014 | Murals | |||||||
Sandwell Valley gates | Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve 52°32′08″N 1°56′53″W / 52.5354314°N 1.9479439°W |
Tim Tolkien | Gates | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | |||||||
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Sot's Hole Bluebell | Sot's Hole Local Nature Reserve 52°31′39″N 1°59′05″W / 52.52755°N 1.98486°W |
Tim Tolkien | Sculpture | Steel | Q18983010 | [16] | ||||
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Sot's Hole gate | Sot's Hole Local Nature Reserve 52°31′38″N 1°59′05″W / 52.52720°N 1.98466°W |
Tim Tolkien | Gate | Steel | Q18983100 | [16] |
Dartmouth Park
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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War Memorial | Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich 52°31′17″N 1°59′06″W / 52.521316°N 1.984899°W |
1920 | War Memorial | Bronze statue | Grade II listed[17] | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
References
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- ↑ "Statue honours women chainmakers of Cradley Heath". BBC Birmingham. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Sculptor's links to historic Cradley Heath chainmakers". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Column marks store opening". Halesowen News. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ↑ "Oldbury Ring". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ↑ "PMSA". pmsa.org.uk.
- ↑ "Smethwick Sikh soldier statue 'striking tribute'". BBC Birmingham & Black Country. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ↑ "Design unveiled for statue honouring Sikh soldiers of First World War". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ↑ "PMSA". pmsa.org.uk.
- ↑ "Feature Steelwork". angle ring.
- ↑ "I am King of the Castle Statue". Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ↑ "'Cross in Hand' statue unveiling". Fitzgerald Engineering Contractors. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ↑ "Hand and Cross". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ↑ "The eagle lands in West Bromwich". Fitzgerald Engineering Contractors. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ↑ "Tony Brown statue unveiled". The Daily Mail. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ↑ "West Brom to unveil statue of Tony Brown". Express and Star. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- 1 2 "The Friends of Sot's Hole". The Friends of Sot's Hole. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 21 September 2008.
- ↑ Historic England. "War Memorial (Grade II) (1287843)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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