List of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The statue of Charles II by Grinling Gibbons at Royal Hospital Chelsea

This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Belgravia

Part of Belgravia lies outside Kensington and Chelsea; for works not listed here see the List of public art in the City of Westminster

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Type	Location	Date	Sculptor	Notes	Source
	The Jeeves Ladies	Sculptural group	Outside Jeeves shop, Pont Street	1974	Kate McGill	Based on the logo, depicting two gossiping Edwardian ladies out shopping, designed by Derrick Holmes for the dry cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia. Holmes also produced the maquette for the sculpture.[1]	—

Brompton

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman	Brompton Oratory	1895	Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud	Statue under canopy	Campanella marble and Portland stone	Grade II-listed	Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner.[2]

Chelsea

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Charles II	Royal Hospital, Figure Court 51°29′14″N 0°09′28″W / 51.4871°N 0.1577°W / 51.4871; -0.1577 (Charles II)	1676	Grinling Gibbons	Statue	Gilt bronze	Grade I-listed	Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat, presented to the King in 1682 and installed in the Royal Hospital in 1692. Gilding removed 1782 and restored 2002.[3]
	Millar Obelisk	King's Road, Dovehouse Green	1751	?	Obelisk		—	[4]
	Chillianwallah Memorial	Royal Hospital, South Grounds	1853	Charles Robert Cockerell	Obelisk		Grade II-listed	[5]
	Sir Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain	Hans Place	late 19th century	Joseph Whitehead and Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion)	Drinking fountain with relief sculpture		—	Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place.[6]
	Chelsea War Memorial	Sloane Square 51°29′33″N 0°09′25″W / 51.4926°N 0.1570°W / 51.4926; -0.1570 (Chelsea War Memorial)	1920	Sir Reginald Blomfield	Cross		Grade II-listed	Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design.[7]
	Fountain	Wellington Square	1926	?	Fountain with sculpture		—	[8]
	Venus Fountain	Sloane Square	1953	Gilbert Ledward	Fountain with sculpture	Bronze	Grade II-listed	Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe.[9]
	Girl with Doves	Cadogan Square	1970	David Wynne	Statue	Bronze	—
	The Dancers	Cadogan Square	1971	David Wynne	Sculptural group	Bronze	—	[10]
	Dancer with Bird	Cadogan Square	1974	David Wynne	Statue	Bronze	—	[10]
	Young Girl	Sloane Gardens	1980	Karin Jonzen	Statue	Bronze	—	[11]
	The In-Pensioner	Royal Hospital, North Front	2000	Philip Jackson	Statue	Bronze	—	Unveiled 4 May 2000.[12]
	My Children	Duke of York Square	2002	Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal)	Sculptures	Bronze	—	The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square.[13]
	Sir Hans Sloane	Duke of York Square	2005	Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack	Statue		—	[14]
	Chelsea Arts Club frontages	143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB 51°29′17″N 0°10′29″W / 51.48806°N 0.17472°W / 51.48806; -0.17472	various	various	Murals		—	[15][16][17]
	Nell Gwyn	Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue			Architectural sculpture		—	[18]
	Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids	The Pheasantry, King's Road	1881	Amédée Joubert	Architectural sculptures		Grade II-listed	[19]
	William Friese Greene	King's Road, outside No. 208			Architectural sculpture (relief)		—	[20]
	Christ, the Apostles, bishop, king and an angel with the Shield of the Trinity	Over entrance to Holy Trinity, Sloane Street	1890	John Dando Sedding	Architectural sculpture (relief)		Grade I-listed

Chelsea Embankment

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to George Sparks	Chelsea Embankment, outside Chelsea Old Church	1880	Charles Barry, Jr.	Drinking fountain		—	[21]
	Thomas Carlyle	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street 51°29′00″N 0°10′09″W / 51.4832°N 0.1691°W / 51.4832; -0.1691 (Thomas Carlyle)	1882	Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm	Statue	Bronze statue on red granite pedestal	Grade II-listed	[22]
	Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house) 51°29′01″N 0°09′57″W / 51.4837°N 0.1658°W / 51.4837; -0.1658 (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Memorial)	1887	Ford Madox Brown	Drinking fountain with bust	Grey granite and bronze	Grade II-listed	Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Architect: John Pollard Seddon, in whose cottage in Bridlington Rossetti died in 1882.[23]
	Carabiniers Boer War Memorial	Built into the railings of Ranelagh Gardens, opposite Chelsea Bridge	1905	Adrian Jones	Screen with relief panels	Red brick, Portland stone and bronze		[24]
	Atalanta	Near Albert Bridge	1929	Francis Derwent Wood	Statue	Bronze	Grade II	Based on a plaster sculpture of 1907 and marble of 1909; bronze installed on this site in 1929.[25]
	Awakening	Roper’s Gardens	1915	Gilbert Ledward	Statue	Bronze		Installed on this site in 1965.[26]
	Untitled bas relief	Roper’s Gardens	1950	Sir Jacob Epstein	Bas relief	Portland stone		Unveiled 3 June 1972.[27]
	Sir Thomas More	Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk	1968	Leslie Cubitt Bevis	Statue			Unveiled 21 July 1969.[28]
	The Boy David	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, east of Oakley Street	1971	Edward Bainbridge Copnall after Francis Derwent Wood	Statuette on column	Fibreglass statuette on a pink granite column		Unveiled 8 May 1971. Previously Wood's half-size model of the figure for his Machine Gun Corps Memorial stood here; this was stolen in 1969.[29]
	Boy with a Dolphin	Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street	1974	David Wynne	Sculptural group	Bronze		Unveiled 13 October 1975.[30]
	Sir Hans Sloane	Chelsea Physic Garden	1983	After John Michael Rysbrack	Statue			Replica of Rysbrack’s original of 1733, installed here in 1737 and moved to the British Museum in 1983.[31]
	James Abbott McNeill Whistler	Whistler’s Reach, near Battersea Bridge	2003	Nicholas Dimbleby	Statue	Bronze		Unveiled 15 September 2005.[32]

Kensington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland	Holland Park	1872	George Frederic Watts and Joseph Edgar Boehm	N/A	Statue	Grade II	Unveiled 1926.[33]
	Statue of Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala	Queen's Gate 51°30′05″N 0°10′49″W / 51.5013°N 0.1803°W / 51.5013; -0.1803 (Statue of Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala)	1891	Joseph Edgar Boehm	N/A	Equestrian statue	Grade II	Originally stood in Waterloo Place; moved to its current site in 1921. A replica of the statue to Napier in Kolkata. The boundary line with the City of Westminster bisects the length of this statue.[34] In 2004 the artist Eleonora Aguiari wrapped the statue in bright red tape as a comment on Britain's imperialist past.[35]
	Queen Victoria Monument	Warwick Gardens 51°29′49″N 0°12′15″W / 51.496871°N 0.204195°W / 51.496871; -0.204195 (Queen Victoria Monument)	1904	N/A	H. L. Florence	Commemorative column	Grade II	[36]
	Bust of Alfred Beit	Royal School of Mines	1910	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	Bust	Grade II	[37]
	Bust of Julius Wernher	Royal School of Mines	1910	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	Bust	Grade II	[37]
More images	Kensington War Memorial	Kensington Church Street, southern end	1922	F. W. Pomeroy	Major Hubert C. Corlette	War memorial	Grade II	Unveiled 1 July 1922 by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll.[38]
	Statue of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell	Queen's Gate	1961	Don Potter		Statue	N/A	[39]
More images	Yalta Memorial (Twelve Responses to Tragedy)	Yalta Memorial Garden, Cromwell Road	1986	Angela Conner			N/A	Replaced original version of 1981, destroyed by vandals in 1982.
More images	Head of Invention	Outside the Design Museum	1989	Eduardo Paolozzi	N/A	Sculpture	N/A
	Statue of Béla Bartók	South Kensington tube station	2004	Imre Varga		Statue	N/A	[40]

North Kensington and Notting Hill

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Coat of arms of the National Bank Limited (Azure a harp Or within an orle of bezants)	Pembridge Gardens, on side of Royal Bank of Scotland, Notting Hill Gate	1950s	?		Architectural sculpture (relief)		The National Bank was based in Ireland, and had a branch here. Its British operations were eventually acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1985.[41]
More images	Statue of Saint Volodymyr	Holland Park Avenue 51°30′27″N 0°12′15″W / 51.5074°N 0.2041°W / 51.5074; -0.2041 (Statue of Saint Volodymyr)	1988	Leo Mol	N/A	Statue	N/A	[42]
	The Climber	On roof of 43–45 Notting Hill Gate	2000	Peter Logan		Kinetic architectural sculpture	N/A	All the moving parts of the sculpture had to be removed in 2013 after a piece collapsed and fell onto the pavement on 22 June that year.[43][44]
	Carnival Elephant	Outside Waterstone's, Notting Hill Gate	2003	Nadim Karam		Sculpture	N/A	[44]
	Two Carnival Figures	On roof of Waterstone's, Notting Hill Gate	2003	Nadim Karam		Architectural sculptures	N/A	[44]

South Kensington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami	Darwin Centre courtyard, Natural History Museum	2011	N/A	Carmody Groarke Architects	Memorial	N/A	Unveiled 6 July 2011 by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.[45] 4.1m³ of granite with one corner cut away, the largest single block of stone to be transported in Great Britain since the building of Stonehenge. Michael Holland, the memorial's principal organiser, lost his mother, wife and daughter to the tsunami.[46]
More images	Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace	Outside the Darwin Centre 2 building, near the wildlife garden, Natural History Museum	2013	Anthony Smith	N/A	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 7 November 2013, the centenary of Wallace’s death, by Sir David Attenborough. The statue depicts Wallace at the moment of his discovery of the golden birdwing butterfly in the Bacan islands of Indonesia.[47]

Victoria and Albert Museum

Main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum, photographed in about 1960

Detail of two of Alfred Drury’s relief panels above the main portal. The full inscription is taken from Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses: “The excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose”.

Statue of William Morris by Arthur George Walker on the Exhibition Road façade

Subject	Notes	Type	Location	Date	Sculptor	Architect	Source
Queen Victoria	—	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
Albert, Prince Consort	—	Statue	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
St George	—	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
St Michael	—	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
9 allegorical figures	—	Relief panels	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
Inspiration and Knowledge	—	Statues in niches	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Alfred Drury	Aston Webb	[48]
Truth and Beauty	—	Reliefs in spandrels	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Sir George Frampton	Aston Webb	[48]
Edward VII	—	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Sir William Goscombe John	Aston Webb	[48]
Alexandra of Denmark	—	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Sir William Goscombe John	Aston Webb	[48]
Grinling Gibbons	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	William Silver Frith	Aston Webb	[49]
John Bacon	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	William Silver Frith	Aston Webb	[50]
John Flaxman	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Bertram Pegram	Aston Webb	[51]
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Bertram Pegram	Aston Webb	[52]
John Henry Foley	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	James Gamble	Aston Webb	[48]
Alfred Stevens	Sculptor	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	James Gamble	Aston Webb	[53]
William Hogarth	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Reuben Sheppard	Aston Webb	[54]
Sir Joshua Reynolds	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Reuben Sheppard	Aston Webb	[55]
Thomas Gainsborough	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Stanley Nicholson Babb	Aston Webb	[56]
George Romney	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Stanley Nicholson Babb	Aston Webb	[57]
Richard Cosway	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Ernest Gillick	Aston Webb	[58]
J. M. W. Turner	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Ernest Gillick	Aston Webb	[59]
John Constable	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Vincent Hill	Aston Webb	[60]
George Frederic Watts	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Richard Reginald Goulden	Aston Webb	[61]
Frederic, Lord Leighton	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Gilbert Bayes	Aston Webb	[62]
Sir John Everett Millais	Painter	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	James Stevenson (“Myrander”)	Aston Webb	[48]
William of Wykeham	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	J. Wenlock Rollins	Aston Webb	[63]
John Thorpe	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	J. Wenlock Rollins	Aston Webb	[53]
Inigo Jones	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Oliver Wheatley	Aston Webb	[48]
Sir Christopher Wren	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Oliver Wheatley	Aston Webb	[64]
Sir William Chambers	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Gilbert Bayes	Aston Webb	[65]
Sir Charles Barry	Architect	Statue in niche	Cromwell Road façade	1905	Gilbert Bayes	Aston Webb	[66]
St Dunstan	Craftsman	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Frank Lynn Jenkins	Aston Webb	[48]
William Torell	Metalworker	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Frank Lynn Jenkins	Aston Webb	[48]
William Caxton	Printer	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	[48]
George Heriot	Goldsmith	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	[48]
Huntingdon Shaw	Smith	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Abraham Broadbent	Aston Webb	[48]
Thomas Tompion	Clockmaker	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Abraham Broadbent	Aston Webb	[48]
Thomas Chippendale	Furniture maker	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Albert Hodge	Aston Webb	[48]
Josiah Wedgwood	Potter	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Albert Hodge	Aston Webb	[48]
Roger Payne	Bookbinder	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Arthur George Walker	Aston Webb	[48]
William Morris	Textile designer	Statue in niche	Exhibition Road façade	1905	Arthur George Walker	Aston Webb	[48]

Knightsbridge

Ladbroke Grove

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash	Canal Way	2001	Richard Healy	Stele	N/A	[68]

References

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