List of public art in the London Borough of Camden
This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Camden.
Bloomsbury
Camden Town
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Notes | Coordinates |
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Richard Cobden | Camden High Street | 1868 | W and T Wills | [4] | 51°32′05″N 0°08′20″W / 51.53474°N 0.13891°W | |
Matilda Fountain | Gloucester Gate | 1878 | Joseph Durham | [21] | 51°32′08″N 0°08′51″W / 51.53552°N 0.14741°W | |
Memorial to Charles Dibdin | St Martin's Gardens | 1889 | ? | [22] | ||
Seated figure | Kingsway College on Longford Street | 1976 | Jean Bullock | [23] | 51°31′34″N 0°08′29″W / 51.526041°N 0.141376°W | |
Horses | Camden Stables Market | 51°32′31″N 0°08′50″W / 51.54196°N 0.14729°W | ||||
Sculpture | Maitland Park Villas, Camden | 51°32′51.5″N 0°9′22″W / 51.547639°N 0.15611°W | ||||
Cat statues | Entrance to former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road, Camden | 1996 | 51°32′00″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5334°N 0.1395°W | |||
Black cat motifs | Façade of former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road, Camden | 1996 | 51°32′01″N 0°08′23″W / 51.5335°N 0.1398°W | |||
Memorial to Far East Prisoners of War | Junction of Crowndale Road, Eversholt Street and Mornington Street | 2012 | Chris Roche (1104 Architects) | Unveiled 21 September 2012[24] 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.[25] | ||
Amy Winehouse | Camden Stables Market | 2014 | Scott Eaton | [26] |
Covent Garden
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Type | Location | Date | Sculptor | Architect / Designer | Notes | Listing |
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Drinking fountain | Drinking fountain | High Holborn | 1897 | |||||
Seven Dials Monument | Column | Seven Dials | 1988–9 | Andrew ("Red") Mason after Edward Pierce | Unveiled 29 June 1989 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of William III and Mary II's accession. The original Sundial Pillar was erected by Thomas Neale in the early 1690s; it was pulled down in 1773 in order to deter "undesirables" from congregating around it.[27] | |||
ob 08 | Sculpture | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street | 2008 | Steven Gontarski | The bright red abstract sculpture, which stands 5 metres high, is made of painted and lacquered glass-fibre-reinforced plastic. Gontarski wished to "create a heart in the midst of an urban development".[28] | |||
William | Sculpture | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street | Rebecca Warren | Adapted from a smaller work by the sculptor also titled William. The fluid, anonymous figure is intended to "speak of the ever-shifting present" and not of the past, and thus have the opposite qualities to most public sculpture.[28] |
Euston Road
Fitzrovia
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Artist | Notes | Coordinates |
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"Warren" tile motif | Warren Street tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Alan Fletcher | [31] | ||
Francisco de Miranda | Corner of Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street | 1990 | after Rafael de la Cova | Modern replica of a sculpture of 1895. Stands close to 58 Grafton Way ("Casa Miranda"), where the Venezuelan revolutionary lived with his English wife from 1802 to 1810.[36] | ||
View | Fitzroy Square | 1977 | Naomi Blake | 51°31′22.6″N 0°8′22.7″W / 51.522944°N 0.139639°W | ||
Fitzrovia Mural | Whitfield Gardens | 1980 | Simon Barber and Mick Jones | Barber painted the bottom half and Jones (son of the trade unionist Jack Jones) the top half of the mural, which depicts "various unnamed characters of Fitzrovia and greedy speculators". As of 2013 the work was in poor condition.[37] | 51°31′15″N 0°08′06″W / 51.520765°N 0.135089°W |
Hampstead
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source | Coordinates |
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Memorial drinking fountain to William Warburton Pearce | South End Green, Hampstead | 1880 | J H Evins (designer) J Holland (builder) |
[38] | 51°33′15″N 0°09′55″W / 51.5542°N 0.1654°W | |
Deer | Pond Street, Hampstead, outside Roebuck pub | 19th century | [39] | 51°33′14″N 0°10′03″W / 51.5538°N 0.1674°W | ||
Woman | High Street, Hampstead, outside No. 28A | [40] | 51°33′21″N 0°10′36″W / 51.55591°N 0.17672°W | |||
Chalybeate well and Susanna Noël memorial | Well Walk, Hampstead | 1698 | [41] | 51°33′33″N 0°10′24″W / 51.559177°N 0.17345°W | ||
Drinking fountain | Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead | 1850s | [42] | 51°33′18″N 0°10′25″W / 51.554977°N 0.17362°W | ||
Virgin and Child | St Mary's Church, Hampstead, on façade of tower | 1852 | William Wardell | 51°33′25″N 0°10′50″W / 51.556967°N 0.18045°W |
Hampstead Heath
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source | Coordinates |
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War Memorial | Junction of Spaniards Road and North End Way, Hampstead Heath | c. 1920 | [43] | 51°33′46″N 0°10′47″W / 51.562792°N 0.179597°W | ||
Art mural | Platforms of Hampstead Heath railway station | 2011 | Johnson Tiles and Claire Woods | [44] |
Highgate
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source | Coordinates |
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Sir Sidney Waterlow | Waterlow Park, Highgate | Frank Taubman | [4] | 51°34′09″N 0°08′42″W / 51.56919°N 0.14503°W | ||
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery | 1956 | Laurence Bradshaw | [4] | 51°33′58″N 0°08′38″W / 51.56623°N 0.14379°W | |
Holborn
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Architect / Designer | Source | Coordinates |
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Thomas More | Thomas More Chambers, 51 and 52 Carey Street | 1886 | Robert Smith | George Sherrin | [45][46] | ||
Edward I of England | Kingsgate House, High Holborn | Richard Garbe | |||||
Edward VII of England | Kingsgate House, High Holborn | Richard Garbe | |||||
John Bunyan | Southampton Row | 1903 | Richard Garbe | [47] | |||
Bust of Charles Dickens | Holborn Bars, High Holborn | 1907 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald | Alfred Waterhouse | [48] | ||
Francis Bacon | South Square WC1 | 1912 | F. W. Pomeroy | [49] | |||
Memorial to Margaret MacDonald | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1914 | Richard Reginald Goulden | [50] | |||
Memorial to Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1929 | Arthur George Walker | Sir Edwin Lutyens | [51][52] | ||
Bust of John Hunter | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1979 | Nigel Boonham | N/A | [53] | ||
Bust of Bertrand Russell | Red Lion Square | 1980 | Marcelle Quinton | [54] | |||
Camdonian | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1980 | Barry Flanagan | [55] | |||
Fenner Brockway | Red Lion Square WC1 | 1985 | Ian Walters | [4] | |||
Dolphin | Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1989 | Anna Richtner Pentney | ||||
Canadian Air Force Memorial | Lincoln's Inn Fields | ||||||
Square the Block | London School of Economics New Academic Building, corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street | 2009 | Richard Wilson | [56] | 51°30′54″N 0°7′6.8″W / 51.51500°N 0.118556°W |
Swiss Cottage
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source | Coordinates |
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Sigmund Freud | Belsize Lane/Fitzjohns Avenue | 1970 (current location since 1998) | Oscar Nemon | [4] | 51°32′46″N 0°10′32″W / 51.54620°N 0.17560°W | |
References
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- ↑ IAN CHILVERS. "Westmacott, Sir Richard." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved 15 April 2010 from Encyclopedia.com:
- ↑ Nisbet, Gary. "Sir George James Frampton (1860–1928)". Glasgow – City of Sculpture. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- 1 2 Matthews 2012, p. 178.
- ↑ Historic England. "Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland and attached railings (1246378)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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- ↑ Hippocrates bust: Royal Society of Medicine Journal Accessed 24 August 2012.
- ↑ "The Matilda Foutain". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ↑ Historic England. "Charles Dibdin Memorial in St Martins Gardens (Recreation Ground) (1244164)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ "Sunshine and shadow". London Sidelines. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ↑ "British Civilian And Military Fepows", War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 6 December 2017
- ↑ Fulcher, Merlin (1 October 2012), "Curtains up on 1104's Camden PoW memorial", Architects' Journal, retrieved 6 December 2017
- ↑ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (14 September 2014). "Amy Winehouse statue unveiled in London". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Completing the renaissance: The Sundial Pillar & the streets". The Seven Dials Trust. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- 1 2 "Central Saint Giles Art". Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ Robert Stephenson Monument, Euston Station Accessed 7 February 2010.
- 1 2 Londonist stalks...Eduardo Paolozzi Accessed 17 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 Motifs on the Victoria Line (Google Books) Accessed 19 July 2014.
- ↑ Milmo, Cahal (14 February 2007). "Art that embraces a new future for St Pancras". The Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ↑ "A poet's vision". Camden New Journal. November 2007. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ↑ St Pancras Parish Church Accessed 16 September 2010.
- ↑ Shaw Theatre Website Accessed 16 October 2010.
- ↑ Asprey, Ronald; Bullus, Claire (2009). The Statues of London. London and New York: Merrell. p. 86.
- ↑ "The Fitzrovia mural, Whitfield Gardens, off Tottenham Court Road, W1". urban75 blog. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ↑ "South End Green Hampstead". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ "Architectural detail from the front of the Roebuck Hotel in Pond Street, Hampstead". agefotostock.com. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ "The Hampstead Walk – London's Country Village". London Walking Tours. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
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- ↑ "Johnson Tiles Project Hampstead Heath". Johnson Tiles. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ↑ Matthews 2012, p. 63.
- ↑ Historic England. "Thomas Moore Chambers, 5 and 52, Carey Street (1244096)". National Heritage List for England.
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Bibliography
- Matthews, Peter (2012), London’s Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications
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