List of public art in the London Borough of Islington
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Islington.
Barnsbury[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial | Thornhill Road Gardens, junction of Thornhill Road and Richmond Avenue 51°32′20″N 0°06′37″W / 51.5389°N 0.1102°W |
1920 | ? | War memorial with Celtic cross | Grade II | [1] |
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Huntingdon Arms sculpture | 115 Hemingford Road (former Huntingdon Arms pub) 51°32′27″N 0°06′49″W / 51.5409°N 0.1136°W |
? | Relief sculpture | N/A | [2] |
Canonbury[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Horizon | Canonbury Square, eastern section 51°32′37″N 0°06′00″W / 51.5437°N 0.0999°W |
2019 | David Harber | Armillary sphere | N/A |
Clerkenwell[]
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 | 1779–1782 (building) | Joseph Nollekens | Relief sculptures | Grade II* | [3] |
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Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District |
Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road 51°31′29″N 0°06′40″W / 51.5246°N 0.1111°W |
1920 | ? | Aedicule | Grade II | Unveiled 1 January 1920 at Wimpole Street Post Office, Marylebone. After that post office's closure in 1981 the memorial moved to the delivery offices in Rathbone Place; when they in turn closed in 2013 it moved to its current site.[4] |
Finsbury[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Science and Agriculture | City, University of London, College Building | c. 1894–1896 | Paul Raphael Montford | Frieze | Grade II | [5] |
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Finsbury War Memorial | Rosebery Avenue | 15 August 1921 | Thomas Rudge | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [6] |
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Faceted Column | Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N 0°05′15″W / 51.5204°N 0.0875°W |
1999 | Stephen Cox | Sculpture | N/A | [7] |
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Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash | Finsbury Square | 2013 | ? | Memorial | N/A | Unveiled 28 July 2013.[8] |
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Mercury | Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ? | [9] | |||
2 figures of Triton the God | Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ||||||
4 females | Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square |
Finsbury Park[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Crossed pistols tile motif | Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | N/A | [10] | |
Balloon mosaics | Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms | 1983 | Annabel Grey | N/A | [11] | ||
Sustrans Portrait Bench | Outside Finsbury Park station 51°33′54″N 0°06′20″W / 51.5649°N 0.1056°W |
2013 | ? | Sculpture | N/A | Depicts Jazzie B, Edith Garrud and .[12][13] |
Highbury[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial | Highbury Fields | 1905 | Bertram Mackennal | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [14] |
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Statue of Francis Bacon | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [14] |
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Statue of Edmund Spenser | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [14] |
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The Neighbours | Highbury Quadrant Estate 51°33′31″N 0°05′37″W / 51.5585°N 0.0936°W |
1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Sculptural group | Grade II | [15] |
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Highbury Manor tile motif | Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Edward Bawden | N/A | [16] |
Highgate[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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St Aloysius' College War Memorial | Hornsey Lane 51°34′13″N 0°08′20″W / 51.5703°N 0.1388°W |
after 1918 | ? | Canopied calvary with relief | Grade II | The Carrara marble relief shows the Crucifixion with the Three Maries at the foot of the Cross.[17] |
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Dick Whittington's cat | Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51°33′59″N 0°08′13″W / 51.5665°N 0.1369°W |
1964 | Jonathan Kenworthy | Sculpture | Grade II | [18] |
Holloway[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Prayer of Peace | Elthorne Park, Upper Holloway | 1986 | Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede | Sculpture | N/A | [19] |
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Statue of Tony Adams | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[20] |
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Statue of Herbert Chapman | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[21] |
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Statue of Thierry Henry | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | Margot Roulleau-Gallais | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[22] |
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Statue of Dennis Bergkamp | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 22 February 2014.[23] |
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Statue of Ken Friar | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 28 February 2014.[24] |
Memorial to Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives | Whittington Hospital | 2021 | ? | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 10 September 2021.[25] |
Newington Green[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft |
Newington Green 51°33′05″N 0°05′06″W / 51.5515°N 0.0851°W |
2020 | Maggi Hambling | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 10 November 2020.[26] |
Pentonville[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial at St Silas's Church | Risinghill Street 51°32′01″N 0°06′42″W / 51.5335°N 0.1117°W |
1917 | Arthur George Walker | Memorial cross | Grade II |
St Luke's[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Christ Healing the Blind Man | Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension | 1933–1935 (building) | Eric Gill | Relief sculpture | [27] | |
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Opening the Lockgate | Outside 250 City Road, opposite City Road Basin | 2020 | Ian Rank-Broadley | Sculptural group | N/A | Commemorates the bicentenary of the Regent's Canal. The first of three works by the sculptor commissioned for the development; the others will be installed in 2021 and 2023.[28] |
St Mary's[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Frieze from Hall of Commerce, probably untitled, known as Commerce Welcoming All Nations and The Benefice of Commerce | Battishill Street Gardens, Napier Terrace. Originally in Edward Moxhay’s Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle Street, demolished 1922. 51°32′23″N 0°06′15″W / 51.539821°N 0.104189°W |
1842 1975 (unveiled on present site) |
Musgrave Watson | Sculpted frieze | N/A | Frieze relocated for garden opening in 1975.[29][30] |
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Sculpture of hen with chicks | Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar, 109 St Paul's Road 51°32′46″N 0°06′07″W / 51.5461°N 0.1020°W |
1854 | ? | Relief sculpture | N/A | [31] |
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Sculpture of hounds chasing hare | 181 Upper Street (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub) 51°32′32″N 0°06′11″W / 51.5421°N 0.1031°W |
1856 | c.? | Relief sculpture | N/A | [32] |
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Statue of Hugh Myddelton | Islington Green 51°32′09″N 0°06′13″W / 51.5357°N 0.1036°W |
1862 | John Thomas | Statue | Grade II | [33] |
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Sculpture of three wheatsheaves | 56 Upper Street (formerly the Three Wheatsheaves pub) 51°32′08″N 0°06′15″W / 51.5355°N 0.1042°W |
c. 1864 | ? | Relief sculpture | N/A | [34] |
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Four caryatids | 116–118 Upper Street (formerly the Northern District Post Office) 51°32′18″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5384°N 0.1025°W |
1906 | c.? | Statues | Grade II | |
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Female figure | 75 and 75A Upper Street (originally the entrance to the Electric Theatre cinema, 1908–1916) 51°32′11″N 0°06′13″W / 51.5364°N 0.1037°W |
1908 | ? | Statue on dome | Grade II | The figure originally held an electric lighted globe.[35] |
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Memorial to Thomas Paine | Angel Court, Owen Street | 1991 | Kevin Jordan | Obelisk | N/A | [36] |
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Angel | Angel tube station | 1996 | Kevin Boys | Statue | N/A | [37] |
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Angel on the Green | Anderson Square garden 51°32′12″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5366°N 0.1026°W |
1999 | John Roberts | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 6 September 1999.[38] |
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Angel Wings | N1 Retail Plaza, Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | N/A | [39] |
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Halo | N1 Retail Plaza, Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | N/A | [39] |
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Islington Green War Memorial | Islington Green | 2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial) | John Maine | War memorial | N/A | [40] |
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Street Cat Bob | Islington Green 51°32′11″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5363°N 0.1026°W |
2021 | Tanya Russell | Bronze sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 15 July 2021.[41] |
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Sculpture of Old Parr's head, plus other designs | 66 Cross Street / 290 Upper Street (formerly the Old Parr’s Head pub) 51°32′23″N 0°06′08″W / 51.5396°N 0.1023°W |
? | Relief sculptures | N/A | [42] |
Shoreditch[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of John Wesley | Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51°31′25″N 0°05′14″W / 51.5237°N 0.0872°W |
1891 | John Adams-Acton | Statue | Grade II | [33] |
References[]
- ^ "Thornhill Road Gardens". War Memorials Online. War Memorials Trust. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Huntingdon Arms, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Clerkenwell Conference Centre (1298072)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Postal Workers' War Memorial (1420357)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Northampton Square area: Northampton Square and adjacent streets". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of London. London: London County Council. Vol. 46. pp. 304–321. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ Finsbury War Monument London Remembers. Accessed 4 August 2014
- ^ Planning approval
- ^ "Moorgate tube disaster – Finsbury Square". London Remembers. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ Rooftop Statues.
- ^ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Finsbury Park Accessed 3 August 2014.
- ^ The Mosaics at Finsbury Park Accessed 20 August 2014.
- ^ M@ (12 September 2019). "What Connects Michael Caine, Ronnie Corbett And Nicola Adams? London's Portrait Benches". Londonist. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ Stubbs, Dan (26 April 2013). "Soul II Soul's Jazzie B honoured with jazzy bench". NME. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Statues in Islington Accessed 18 July 2011
- ^ Historic England. "'The Neighbours' sculpture at Highbury Quadrant Estate (1031596)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Highbury and Islington Accessed 3 August 2014
- ^ "St Aloysians". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Whittington Stone, circa 15 metres south of the junction with Mandala Avenue (1298038)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ O'Kane 2002, p. 159.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bartholomew, Emma (13 September 2021). "Statue to honour Windrush nurses unveiled outside Whittington Hospital". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ Topping, Alexandra (10 November 2020). "'Insulting to her': Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture sparks backlash". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Cherry & Pevsner 2002, p. 611.
- ^ "New Sculpture Celebrates Heritage Of The Regent's Canal". Londonist. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Relief: Battishill Gardens". London Remembers. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ Musgrave Watson frieze in Battishill Gardens Accessed 20 December 2010
- ^ "Hen & Chickens, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Hare and Hounds, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ a b Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ^ "Three Wheatsheaves, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Draper, Chris (1989). Islington's Cinemas & Film Studios. Islington Libraries. p. 28. ISBN 0-902260-21-9.
- ^ Rights of Man in Islington – UK Attraction Accessed 18 July 2011
- ^ Angel. Art UK. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Buckman, David (21 November 2002). "Obituary: John Roberts ; Unworldly Sculptor in a Classical and Medieval Tradition" (PDF). The Independent. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ a b CV: Wolfgang and Heron CV. Public Art Online. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Art in the Open Resource – Islington Green Accessed 4 August 2014
- ^ Street Cat Bob: Statue unveiled to animal that inspired books and films. BBC. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Old Parr's Head, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
Bibliography[]
- Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). London: North. The Buildings of England. Vol. 4. London and New Haven: Yale University Press.
- O'Kane, Paul (2002). Donnell, Alison (ed.). "Jegede, Emmanuel Taiwo". Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 158–159.
External links[]
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