List of public art in the London Borough of Islington
This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Islington.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs | Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green | 1779–82 (building) | Joseph Nollekens | Relief sculptures | Grade II* (1298072) | [1] | |
Commerce Welcoming All Nations | Battishill Street Gardens | 1842 (carved) 1975 (unveiled on present site) | Musgrave Watson | [2] | |||
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Statue of Hugh Myddelton | Islington Green 51°32′09″N 0°06′13″W / 51.53573°N 0.10365°W |
1862 | John Thomas | Statue | Grade II (1298044) | [3] |
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Statue of John Wesley | Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51°31′25″N 0°05′14″W / 51.52370°N 0.08718°W |
1891 | John Adams-Acton | Statue | Grade II (1195540) | [3] |
Science and Agriculture | City University London, College Building | c. 1894–6 | Paul Raphael Montford | Frieze | [4] | ||
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Boer War Memorial | Highbury Fields | 1905 | Bertram Mackennal | War memorial with statue | Grade II (1298031) | [5] |
Statue of Francis Bacon | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | [5] | ||
Statue of Edmund Spenser | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | [5] | ||
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Finsbury War Memorial | Rosebery Avenue | 15 August 1921 | Thomas Rudge | War memorial with statue | Grade II (1389293) | [6] |
Christ Healing the Blind Man | Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension | 1933–5 (building) | Eric Gill | Relief sculpture | [7] | ||
Dick Whittington's cat | Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51°34′00″N 0°08′13″W / 51.56654°N 0.13690°W |
1964 | Jonathan Kenworthy | Sculpture | Grade II (1298038) | [8] | |
Highbury Manor tile motif | Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Edward Bawden | [9] | |||
Crossed pistols tile motif | Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | [10] | |||
Balloon mosaics | Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms | 1983 | Annabel Grey | [11] | |||
Memorial to Thomas Paine | Angel Court, Owen Street | 1991 | Kevin Jordan | [12] | |||
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Faceted Column | corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N 0°05′15″W / 51.520415°N 0.087497°W |
1999 | Stephen Cox | Sculpture | N/A | [13] |
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Angel Wings | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | N/A | [14] |
Halo | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | N/A | [14] | |
Islington Green War Memorial | Islington Green | 2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial) | John Maine | War memorial | N/A | [15] | |
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Statue of Tony Adams | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[16] |
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Statue of Herbert Chapman | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[17] |
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Statue of Thierry Henry | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | Margot Roulleau-Gallais | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[18] |
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Statue of Dennis Bergkamp | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 22 February 2014.[19] |
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Statue of Ken Friar | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 28 February 2014.[20] |
Angel | Angel tube station | Kevin Boys | Statue | N/A | |||
Mercury the God | Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square | [21] | |||||
2 figures of Triton the God | Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ||||||
4 females | Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square | ||||||
Hare and Hounds architectural sculpture | Upper Street, on No. 181 (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub) | [22] |
References
- ↑ Historic England. "Clerkenwell Conference Centre (1298072)". National Heritage List for England.
- ↑ Musgrave Watson frieze in Battishill Gardens Accessed 20 December 2010
- 1 2 Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ↑ Temple, Philip, ed. (2008), "Northampton Square area: Northampton Square and adjacent streets", South and East Clerkenwell, Survey of London, London: London County Council, 46, pp. 304–321, retrieved 18 August 2015
- 1 2 3 Statues in Islington Accessed 18 July 2011
- ↑ Finsbury War Monument London Remembers. Accessed 4 August 2014
- ↑ Cherry & Pevsner 2002, p. 611
- ↑ Historic England. "Whittington Stone, circa 15 metres south of the junction with Mandala Avenue (1298038)". National Heritage List for England.
- ↑ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Highbury and Islington Accessed 3 August 2014
- ↑ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Finsbury Park Accessed 3 August 2014.
- ↑ The Mosaics at Finsbury Park Accessed 20 August 2014.
- ↑ Rights of Man in Islington – UK Attraction Accessed 18 July 2011
- ↑ Planning approval
- 1 2 CV: Wolfgang and Heron CV, Public Art Online, retrieved 28 August 2015
- ↑ Art in the Open Resource – Islington Green Accessed 4 August 2014
- ↑ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Tony Adams", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
- ↑ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Herbert Chapman", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
- ↑ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Thierry Henry", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
- ↑ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Dennis Bergkamp", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
- ↑ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Ken Friar", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
- ↑ http://knowledgeoflondon.com/rooftops.html
- ↑ "Hare and Hounds, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
Bibliography
- Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002), London: North, The Buildings of England, 4, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
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