List of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Belgravia
- See the list of public art in Belgravia.
Brompton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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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.[1] |
Chelsea
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Charles II | Royal Hospital, Figure Court 51.4871°N 0.1577°W |
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.[2] |
Millar Obelisk | King's Road, Dovehouse Green | 1751 | ? |
Obelisk | — |
[3] | ||
Chillianwallah Memorial | Royal Hospital, South Grounds | 1853 | Charles Robert Cockerell | Obelisk | Grade II-listed | [4] | ||
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.[5] | ||
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Chelsea War Memorial | Sloane Square 51.4926°N 0.1570°W |
1920 | Reginald Blomfield | Cross | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design.[6] | |
Fountain | Wellington Square | 1926 | ? |
Fountain with sculpture | — |
[7] | ||
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Venus Fountain | Sloane Square | 1953 | Gilbert Ledward | Fountain with sculpture | Bronze | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe.[8] |
Girl with Doves | Cadogan Square | 1970 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze | — |
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The Dancers | Cadogan Square | 1971 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze | — |
[9] | |
Dancer with Bird | Cadogan Square | 1974 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze | — |
[9] | |
Young Girl | Sloane Gardens | 1980 | Karin Jonzen | Statue | Bronze | — |
[10] | |
The In-Pensioner | Royal Hospital, North Front | 2000 | Philip Jackson | Statue | Bronze | — |
Unveiled 4 May 2000.[11] | |
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.[12] | |
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Sir Hans Sloane | Duke of York Square | 2005 | Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | — |
[13] | |
Chelsea Arts Club frontages | 143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB 51°29′17″N 0°10′29″W |
various | various | Murals | — |
[14][15][16] | ||
Nell Gwyn | Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue | Architectural sculpture | — |
[17] | ||||
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 | [18] | ||
William Friese Greene | King's Road, outside No. 208 | Architectural sculpture (relief) | — |
[19] | ||||
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 |
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Memorial to George Sparks | Chelsea Embankment, outside Chelsea Old Church | 1880 | Charles Barry, Jr. | Drinking fountain | [20] | |||
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Thomas Carlyle | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street 51.4832°N 0.1691°W |
1882 | Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue | Bronze statue on red granite pedestal | Grade II-listed | [21] |
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Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house) 51.4837°N 0.1658°W |
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.[22] |
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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 | [23] | |
Awakening | Roper’s Gardens | 1915 | Gilbert Ledward | Statue | Bronze | Installed on this site in 1965.[24] | ||
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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] |
Untitled bas-relief | Roper's Gardens | 1950 | Sir Jacob Epstein | Bas relief | Portland stone | Unveiled 3 June 1972.[26] | ||
Sir Thomas More | Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk | 1968 | Leslie Cubitt Bevis | Statue | Unveiled 21 July 1969.[27] | |||
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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.[28] | |
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Boy with a Dolphin | Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street | 1974 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze | Unveiled 13 October 1975.[29] | |
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.[30] | |||
James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Whistler's Reach, near Battersea Bridge | 2003 | Nicholas Dimbleby | Statue | Bronze | Unveiled 15 September 2005.[31] | ||
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Bust of Ralph Vaughan Williams | Chelsea Embankment Gardens | 2012 | Marcus Cornish | Bust | Unveiled 5 September 2012.[32] |
Kensington
- See the list of public art in Kensington and the list of public art in Kensington Gardens.
Knightsbridge
- See the list of public art in Knightsbridge.
Ladbroke Grove
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash | Canal Way | 2001 | Richard Healy | Stele | N/A | [33] |
References
- "Cardinal Newman, Statue, Brompton Oratory Complex". National Recording Project. PMSA. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 18
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 20
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 19
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 37
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 31
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 26
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 30
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 33
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 28
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 17
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 27
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 29
- http://jtchatter.blogspot.co.uk/2011_01_11_archive.html
- http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2010/11/26/chelsea-arts-club/
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Simon's Walks – At Home In Chelsea". At Home In Chelsea. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- "William Friese Greene". London Remembers. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 8
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 9
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 13
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 16
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 1
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 10
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 2
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 6
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 12
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 11
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 15
- Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 4
- "Ralph Vaughan Williams – bust", London Remembers, retrieved 18 October 2019
- Matthews 2012, p. 209
Bibliography
- Matthews, Peter (2012), London's Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire PublicationsCS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
External links
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