List of public art in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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

Bethnal Green

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
More images	Blind Beggar and His Dog	Cranbrook Estate 51°31′47″N 0°02′42″W / 51.5298°N 0.0449133°W / 51.5298; -0.0449133 (Blind Beggar and His Dog)	1958	Elisabeth Frink	N/A	Sculptural group	Bronze		Grade II*	[1]
	Stairway to Heaven Bethnal Green tube station disaster	Bethnal Green tube station	2017	N/A	Harry Paticas	War memorial			N/A	[2]

Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
More images	Robert Milligan	Museum of London Docklands Hertsmere Road	1813	Richard Westmacott
More images	Testa Addormentata	Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street	1983	Igor Mitoraj					[3]
More images	Couple on a Seat	Cabot Square	1984	Lynn Chadwick					[4]
More images	Centurione I	Columbus Courtyard	1987	Igor Mitoraj					[5]
More images	Leap	Jamestown Harbour	1987–9	Franta Belsky					[6]
More images	Two Men on a Bench	Cabot Square	1990	Giles Penny					[7]
	Gate	Westferry Circus	1992	Giuseppe Lund					[8]
More images	Centauro	Upper Bank Street	1994	Igor Mitoraj					[9]
More images	Man With Arms Open	West India Avenue	1995	Giles Penny					[10]
More images	Figurehead for Docklands	Poplar Dock	1997	Anna Bisset					[11]
	Portrait relief of Michael von Clemm	Cabot Square	1998	Gerald Laing					[12]
More images	Traffic Light Tree	roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013)	1998	Pierre Vivant					[13]
More images	Original Form	25 North Colonnade	1999	Keith Rand					[14]
More images	Six Public Clocks	Reuters Plaza	1999	Konstantin Grcic					[15]
More images	Vanishing Point	Westferry Circus	1999	Jay Battle					[16]
More images	Columbus Screen	Columbus Courtyard	2000	Wendy Ramshaw					[17]
More images	Hibbert Gate	Adjacent to North Dock West	2000	Leo Stevenson					[18]
More images	Returning to Embrace	10 Cabot Square	2000	Jon Buck					[19]
More images	It Takes Two	One Canada Square	2002	Bob Allen					[20]
More images	HSBC lions	8 Canada Square	2002	after W. W. Wagstaff
	Arbor	Montgomery Square	2003	Nigel Ross					[21]
	Cross Way	Montgomery Square	2003	Nigel Ross					[21]
	Sacrificial Anode	Montgomery Square	2007	Eilis O'Connell					[22]
More images	Sasso Cosmico	Westferry Circus	2007	Do König Vassilakis					[23]
	Avatar	Westferry Circus	2009	Robert Worley					[24]
More images	Torsion II	Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit	2009–11	Charles Hadcock					[25]
More images	Drawing Cube (Blue)	Montgomery Square	2010	Suresh Dutt					[26]
	Domino Players	Clove Crescent	1992	Kim Bennet					[27]
	London River Man	Ensign House, Marsh Wall
More images	Renaissance	Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock		Maurice Blik					[28]
More images	Spirit of Enterprise	South Dock, Canary Wharf 51°30′9.83″N 0°1′29.04″W / 51.5027306°N 0.0247333°W / 51.5027306; -0.0247333	1987	Wendy Taylor					[29]
	Speaking of the River	Canary Riverside 51°30′22.48″N 0°1′43.72″W / 51.5062444°N 0.0288111°W / 51.5062444; -0.0288111	2000	Constance DeJong	audio benches				[30]
	Windwand	Canary Riverside 51°30′20.87″N 0°1′41.43″W / 51.5057972°N 0.0281750°W / 51.5057972; -0.0281750	2000	Ron Arad		carbon fibre	50 m high		[30]
	Chimney	Westferry Circus 51°30′19.74″N 0°1′34.55″W / 51.5054833°N 0.0262639°W / 51.5054833; -0.0262639	2008	Andrew Burton		recycled fired bricks, steel			[30]
	12 Planters	Columbus Courtyard 51°30′22.53″N 0°1′30.69″W / 51.5062583°N 0.0251917°W / 51.5062583; -0.0251917	2001–2002	Tatiana Orloff		bronze			[30]

Mile End and Bow

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Richard Green	East India Dock Road	1865/6	Edward William Wyon	Statue	Grade II	[31]
More images	Statue of William Ewart Gladstone	In front of Bow Church, Bow Road	1882	Albert Bruce-Joy	Statue	Grade II
	Bust of Edward VII	39 Mile End Road	1911	?	Bust	Grade II	Unveiled 12 October 1911.[32]
	Statue of Clement Attlee	Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road	1988	Frank Forster	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 30 November 1988 in its original location, outside Limehouse Library, by Harold Wilson, the last living member of Attlee's cabinet.[33] The figure holds a copy of the National Assistance Act 1948. In 2005 the work was badly vandalised and was boxed up to prevent further damage; it was removed to its current location in 2010.[34] Peter Mandelson gave the statue its second unveiling on 4 April 2011.[35]
	Knowledge	Library Square on the campus of Queen Mary, University of London
	Renaissance	junction of Saffron Avenue and Clove Crescent		Maurice Blik

Poplar

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Children's Memorial	Poplar Recreation Ground	1919	A. R. Adams		Grade II	Unveiled 23 June 1919.[36] Commemorates the 18 children who were killed in a bombing raid (the first daylight raid of World War I) on Upper North Street School on 13 June 1917.[37]
	Shadow Play	In front of Compass House, Mulberry Place	1992	Dave King			[31]
	Virginia Settlers Monument	Jamestown Way	1999	Wendy Taylor			[31]
	Meridians and Metaphors	Near the junction of Clove Crescent and Saffron Avenue		David Jacobson

St Katharine Docks

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Cannon	Entrance to St Katharine Docks	18th century				[38]
	Anchor of Amsterdam	St Katharine Docks, at entrance to East Dock	1748 (placed here 1980s)				[38]
More images	Girl with Dolphin	Beside River Thames between Tower Bridge and entrance to docks	1973	David Wynne			[38]
More images	Timepiece	Entrance to St Katharine Docks	1973	Wendy Taylor			[38]
	Elephants	Entrance to Ivory House, on gateposts	1973	Peter Drew			[38]
	Geese	Thomas More Street	1990	David Norris			[38]
	To Meet Again	Thomas More Street	1990	Michael Beck			[38]
	Angelic Musician	Thomas More Street	1991	Carl Milles			[38]
	Exotic Birds and other sculptures	Various locations around St Katharine Docks	1995–97	Paula Haughney			[38]

Shadwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to Edward VII	King Edward Memorial Park	1922	Bertram Mackennal	Drinking fountain (formerly)		The bronze portrait medallion of Edward VII was stolen in 2007.[39]
	Navigators' Memorial	King Edward Memorial Park	1922	?	Commemorative stone		[39]

Spitalfields

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	I Goat	Brushfield Street	2011	Kenny Hunter	Sculpture	N/A	[40]
	Vortex	Lamb Street	1999	Barbara Sandler	Sculpture	N/A	[41]

Tower Hill

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Merchant Navy First World War Memorial	Trinity Square Gardens 51°30′35″N 0°04′40″W / 51.5096°N 0.0777°W / 51.5096; -0.0777 (Merchant Navy First World War Memorial)	1928	William Reid Dick	Edwin Lutyens	War memorial	Grade I	[42]
More images	Merchant Navy Second World War Memorial	Trinity Square Gardens 51°30′35″N 0°04′41″W / 51.5097°N 0.0780°W / 51.5097; -0.0780 (Merchant Navy Second World War Memorial)	1952	Charles Wheeler	Edward Maufe	War memorial	Grade II*	[43]
More images	Statue of Trajan	Trinity Place 51°30′36″N 0°04′34″W / 51.5099°N 0.0762°W / 51.5099; -0.0762 (Statue of Trajan)	20th century, after an original of the 2nd century AD	?	N/A	Statue	N/A	[44]
More images	Sundial	Wakefield Gardens, outside Tower Hill tube station	1992	Edwin Russell	John Chitty and Mike Duffie (landscape architects)	Sundial	N/A	[45]
More images	Merchant Navy Falklands War Memorial	Trinity Square Gardens 51°30′35″N 0°04′38″W / 51.5097°N 0.0771°W / 51.5097; -0.0771 (Merchant Navy Falklands War Memorial)	2005	Gordon Newton	N/A	War memorial	N/A	[46]
More images	The Building Worker	Tower Hill 51°30′34″N 0°04′32″W / 51.5094°N 0.0756°W / 51.5094; -0.0756 (The Building Worker)	2006	Alan Wilson	N/A	Statue	N/A	[47]

Victoria Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts	Victoria Park 51°32′13″N 0°02′23″W / 51.53707°N 0.03965°W / 51.53707; -0.03965 (Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain)	1862	N/A	Henry Astley Darbishire	Drinking fountain	Grade II*	[48]

Wapping

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Bluecoat Girl	Raine's House		?	Statue in niche
	Bluecoat Boy	Raine's House		?	Statue in niche
	Bust of John Rennie the Elder	Spirit Quay	1992	John Ravera	Bust	N/A	[39]
	Blitz Memorial	Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden	2008	Wendy Taylor	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled in July 2008 by Hazel Blears, then the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and Alf Roffey, a survivor of the Blitz. On the site of Hermitage Wharf, which was destroyed in a bombing raid on 29 December 1940.[49]

Whitechapel

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of Alexandra of Denmark	Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital	1908	George Edward Wade		Grade II	[50]
More images	Edward VII Memorial Drinking Fountain	Mile End Road	1911	William Silver Frith		Grade II	[51]
	Bust of William Booth	Mile End Road	1927	George Edward Wade			[52]
	Statue of William Booth	Mile End Road	1979 (casting)	George Edward Wade			[53]
	Les Naïdes	45 Whitechapel Road	1985	Ivor Abrahams			[53]
	Spitalfields Column	Middlesex Street	1995	Richard Perry
	Ram and Magpie	Allen Gardens Playground, Buxton Street	1996	Paula Haughny
	Shaheed Minars Martyr monument Altab Ali	Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane	1999	Shaheed Minar			[53]
	Statue of Catherine Booth	Mile End Road	2015	After an original by George Edward Wade	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 2 July 2015.[54]
	Goodman's Fields Horses	Goodman's Fields Piazza	2015	Hamish Mackie		N/A	Winner of the PMSA's Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Fountains.[55]

See also

• Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 ("Old Flo") by Henry Moore, installed at Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, "for at least five years" from 2017^[56]

References

Bibliography

• Matthews, Peter (2012), London’s Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications
• Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003), Public Sculpture of the City of London, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets at Wikimedia Commons