List of public art in the London Borough of Lambeth
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Brixton[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Bust of Henry Tate | Brixton Library | 1905 | Thomas Brock | Bust | Bronze | Grade II | [1] |
Justice, Science, Art and Literature | Lambeth Town Hall clock tower | c. 1905–1908 | Portland stone | Grade II | ||||
Youth | Lambeth Town Hall | c. 1935–1938 | Denis Dunlop | Relief | Portland stone | Grade II | ||
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Pile of bricks tile motif | Brixton tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | Hans Unger | N/A | [2] | ||
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Platforms Piece Joy Battick, Karin Heistermann and Peter Lloyd |
Brixton railway station | 1986 | Kevin Atherton | Statue | Bronze | Grade II | [3] |
The Brixton Heron | Roof of the Prince of Wales pub, corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane 51°27′42″N 0°06′55″W / 51.4615593°N 0.1152009°W |
2010 | Maggi Hambling | Sculptural weather vane | N/A | Depicts a grey heron with a fish in its bill. | ||
Foxes and Cherries | Electric Avenue | 2010 | Lucy Casson | Fibreglass | N/A | |||
Brixton Speaks | Electric Avenue | 2011 | Will Self, Jack Self | N/A | ||||
David Bowie mural | Morley's department store, Tunstall Road | 2013 | James Cochran | Mural | N/A | [4] | ||
Twins | Somerleyton Road, Coldharbour Lane | 2016 | Taslim Martin | Cast iron and stainless steel | N/A | [5] | ||
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African and Caribbean War Memorial | Windrush Square | 2017 | Obelisk | N/A | Unveiled 22 June 2017. The design was announced to the public in 2014.[6] | ||
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion | Windrush Square | 2021 | Adjaye Associates | N/A | [7] | |||
Brixton murals | Various locations in and around Brixton town centre | N/A |
Clapham[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Drinking fountain | Clapham Common, between Long Road and The Pavement 51°27′42″N 0°08′26″W / 51.4618°N 0.1406°W |
1884 | August von Kreling | Fountain with sculptural group | Bronze with granite plinth | Grade II | [8] |
War memorial | St Mary's Roman Catholic Church 51°27′41″N 0°08′14″W / 51.4615°N 0.1372°W |
1919–1920 | Giles Gilbert Scott | War memorial | Limestone | Grade II | [9] |
Kennington[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Decorative column | Kennington Park 51°29′01″N 0°06′36″W / 51.4835°N 0.1101°W |
1869 | c.George Tinworth | Column | Terracotta | Grade II | [10] |
War memorial | St Mark's Church 51°28′54″N 0°06′45″W / 51.4816°N 0.1124°W |
1921 | ? | Memorial cross | Granite | Grade II | Unveiled 29 October 1921.[11] | |
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Kennington War Memorial | Kennington Park 51°29′07″N 0°06′30″W / 51.4854°N 0.1083°W |
1924 | Thomas Arthur Lodge | Cenotaph | Stone | Grade II | Unveiled 19 July 1924.[12] |
Memorial to Len Hutton | Hobbs Gate, The Oval | 1989–1993 | Walter Ritchie | Relief sculpture | Brick | N/A | The cricketer is portrayed scoring his record-breaking innings of 364 runs against Australia in 1938.[13] This work is said to be Ritchie's masterpiece.[14] | |
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Memorial to Victims of the Kennington Park Air Raid Shelter Tragedy | Kennington Park 51°29′01″N 0°06′37″W / 51.4837°N 0.1103°W |
2006 | Richard Kindersley | Memorial | Caithness stone | N/A | Unveiled 14 October 2006. Inscribed with a quotation from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993): history/ despite its/ wrenching/ pain/ cannot/ be unlived/ but/ if faced/ with/ courage/ need not/ be lived/ again.[15] |
Touchstone | Oval Triangle | 2018 | Peter Randall-Page | Sculpture | Granite | N/A | [16] |
Lambeth[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Edward VI | Outside main entrance, St Thomas' Hospital 51°29′59″N 0°07′08″W / 51.4998°N 0.1188°W |
1682 | Thomas Cartwright after Nathaniel Hanwell | Statue | Stone | Grade II* | [17] |
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Statue of Robert Clayton | A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital 51°30′01″N 0°07′10″W / 51.5004°N 0.1195°W |
1702 | Grinling Gibbons | Statue | Marble | Grade I | [18] |
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Statue of Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital 51°29′57″N 0°07′10″W / 51.4992°N 0.1195°W |
1736 | Peter Scheemakers | Statue | Bronze | Grade II* | [19] |
Mr Doulton in His Studio Henry Doulton |
Southbank House, 81 Black Prince Road | 1878 | c.George Tinworth | Tympanum relief | Terracotta | Grade II | [20] | |
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Revolving Torsion | A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital | 1972–1973 | Naum Gabo | Sculpture with fountain | Stainless steel | Grade II* | [21] |
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South of the River | Outside Becket House, Lambeth Palace Road | 1975–1976 | Bernard Schottlander | Sculpture | Stainless steel | Grade II | [22] |
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Cross the Divide | Outside St Thomas' Hospital | 2000 | Rick Kirby | Sculptural group | Stainless steel | N/A | [23] |
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International Memorial to Seafarers | International Maritime Organization, Albert Embankment | 2001 | Michael Sandle | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 27 September (World Maritime Day) 2001.[24] | |
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Special Operations Executive Memorial Violette Szabo |
Lambeth Palace Road, opposite entrance to Lambeth Palace | 2009 | Karen Newman | Bust | N/A | Unveiled 4 October 2009 by the Duke of Wellington.[25] | |
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Statue of Mary Seacole | Outside St Thomas' Hospital | 2009 | Martin Jennings | Statue | Bronze | N/A | Unveiled 30 June 2016 by Floella Benjamin.[26][27] |
South Bank[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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South Bank Lion | Outside County Hall 51°30′03″N 0°07′11″W / 51.5009°N 0.1198°W |
1837 (restored 1951) | William F. Woodington | Statue | Coade stone | Grade II* | [28] |
The Motorcyclist | Shell Centre | 1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Statue | Cemented iron | N/A | [29] | |
The Shell Fountain | Courtyard of the Shell Centre 51°30′15″N 0°06′59″W / 51.5041°N 0.1163°W |
1959–1963 | Franta Belsky | Fountain with sculpture | Bronze | Grade II | [30] | |
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Zemran | First floor terrace, Royal Festival Hall | 1971 | William Pye | Sculpture | Stainless steel | Grade II | [31] |
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Statue of Fryderyk Chopin | Royal Festival Hall | 1975 | Bronisław Kubica | Statue | Bronze | N/A | [32] |
Jubilee Oracle | Next to Jubilee Gardens | 1980 | "Alexander" | Sculpture | Bronze | N/A | [33] | |
Passage Paving | Outside Royal Festival Hall | 1983 | Richard Harris | Sculpture | Concrete | N/A | [34] | |
Pend | Outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 1983–1984 | Anne Nicholson | Sculpture | Portland stone | N/A | [35] | |
Arena | Walkway near the Royal National Theatre | 1983–1988 | John Maine | Sculpture | Stone | N/A | [36] | |
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International Brigades Memorial | Outside County Hall | 1985 | Ian Walters | Sculptural group | Bronze | N/A | [37] |
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London Pride | Outside the National Theatre 51°30′27″N 0°06′53″W / 51.507617°N 0.114764°W |
1987 cast of a work of 1951 | Frank Dobson | Sculptural group | Bronze | Grade II | [38] |
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Bust of Nelson Mandela |
Outside the Royal Festival Hall | 1988 replica of an original of 1982 | Ian Walters | Bust | Bronze | N/A | [39] |
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Statue of Laurence Olivier | Outside the National Theatre | 2007 | Angela Conner | Statue | Bronze | N/A | Unveiled 22 May 2007, the centenary of Olivier's birth.[40] |
Stockwell[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Stockwell War Memorial | Stockwell Road 51°28′23″N 0°07′19″W / 51.4730°N 0.1220°W |
1920 | Frank T. Dear | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | [41] |
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Swan tile motif | Stockwell tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | Abram Games | Tile motif | N/A | [42] | |
Tradescant Family Memorial John Tradescant the Elder John Tradescant the Younger |
St Stephen's Terrace | 1988 | Hilary Cartmel | Sculpture | N/A | [43] | ||
Stockwell Memorial Mural | Stockwell Memorial Gardens | 2001 | Brian Barnes and Myra Harris | Mural | Household paint | N/A | [44] | |
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Bronze Woman | Stockwell Memorial Gardens | 2008 | Aleix Barbat, after Ian Walters | Statue | Bronze | N/A | [45] |
Memorial to Jean Charles de Menezes | Outside Stockwell tube station | 7 January 2010 | Mary Edwards | Mosaic | N/A | [46] |
Streatham[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Dyce Drinking Fountain | Streatham Green 51°25′42″N 0°07′53″W / 51.4283°N 0.1315°W |
1862 | William Dyce | Drinking fountain | Portland stone, red sandstone and marble | Grade II | [47] |
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Streatham War Memorial | Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51°25′24″N 0°07′46″W / 51.4233°N 0.1294°W |
1921 | Albert Toft | Statue | Bronze | Grade II | Unveiled 14 October 1922.[48] |
Streatham Civilians War Memorial | Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51°25′23″N 0°07′54″W / 51.4231°N 0.1316°W |
2006 | Ekkehard Altenburger | War memorial pillar | Kilkenny limestone | N/A | Unveiled 21 October 2006. Inscribed GRIEF HAS NO BOUNDARIES, a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra.[49][50][51] | |
Charioteer with 4 horses | Caesar's Night Club, Streatham Hill | N/A |
Vauxhall[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Agriculture, Engineering and Pottery | Vauxhall Bridge | 1907 | F. W. Pomeroy | Statues | ||||
Following the Leader Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz |
Darley House, Vauxhall Gardens Estate, Laud Street 51°29′17″N 0°07′12″W / 51.488036°N 0.120039°W |
1949 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [52] | |
Boys Playing Football | Wareham House, South Lambeth Estate, Fentiman Road 51°28′50″N 0°07′08″W / 51.480521°N 0.118925°W |
1951–1952 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [53] | |
Mother and Children Playing | Horton House, South Lambeth Estate 51°28′51″N 0°07′11″W / 51.480854°N 0.119853°W |
1951–1952 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [54] | |
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Vauxhall Gardens tile motif | Vauxhall tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | George Smith | Murals | Tiles | N/A | [55] |
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Bust of Basaveshwara | Albert Embankment, opposite the junction with Tinworth Street | 2015 | Sridhar Murthy | Bust | Bronze | N/A | Unveiled 14 November 2015 by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India.[56][57] |
Underline | Vauxhall tube station | Giles Round, Design Work Leisure | Murals | Tiles | N/A | [58] |
Waterloo[]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial | St John's Church 51°30′16″N 0°06′45″W / 51.5045°N 0.1124°W |
1919 | ? | Crucifix | Bronze and wood | Grade II | [59] | |
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Victory Arch London and South Western Railway War Memorial |
Entrance arch of Waterloo station 51°30′14″N 0°06′50″W / 51.503752°N 0.113879°W |
1919–1922 | Charles Whiffen | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | Opened 21 March 1922.[60][61] |
Memorial to Eva Hubback | Morley College | 1963 | David Rowles-Chapman | Relief | Stone | N/A | [62] | |
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Blake's Lambeth | Tunnels alongside Archbishop's Park, near Waterloo station | 2005–2015 | Southbank Mosaics after William Blake | Mosaics | Mosaic | N/A | 70 mosaics based on the work of Blake, who lived for ten of his most productive years in Lambeth, at 13 Hercules Buildings.[63] |
Mosaic portraits Emma Cons, Violette Szabo, Jude Kelly, Octavia Hill, Lilian Baylis, Mary Seacole, Eva Hubback, Natalie Bell, Margaret Mellor, Heather Rabbatts, Mrs Mallet, Annie McCall, Caroline Martineau, Hester Thrale |
Morley College | 2012 | Southbank Mosaics | Mosaics | Mosaic | N/A | Unveiled 3 July 2012.[64] | |
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Battle of Waterloo Memorial | Waterloo station 51°30′12″N 0°06′42″W / 51.5033°N 0.1117°W |
2015 | Jason Brooks | War memorial | N/A | Unveiled 10 June 2015 by the Duke of Wellington. The bronze plaque is based on the reverse of the Waterloo Medal.[65] |
See also[]
- National Covid Memorial Wall
- Skylon (Festival of Britain)
References[]
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- ^ Historic England. "Platforms Piece (1438640)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
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- ^ Historic England. "Drinking Fountain Approximately 500 Metres to South East of Church of Holy Trinity (1122676)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "War Memorial (1244307)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Decorative column on west side of Kennington Park (1080382)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "First World War Memorial at the Church of St Mark, Kennington (1449576)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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- ^ "Touchstone". Peter Randall-Page. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Stone Statue of Edward VI at North Entrance to Ward Block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth (1319933)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Robert Clayton at North Entrance to Ward Block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth (1319925)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
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- ^ Historic England. "The South Bank Lion at East End of Westminster Bridge, Lambeth (1068742)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ "The Motorcyclist, Sculpture, Belvedere Rd., The Shell Centre, Lambeth". National Recording Project. Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Fountain in Courtyard of Shell Centre (1379937)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Zemran sculptures (1431364)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Restoration of Chopin Statue at Royal Festival Hall. The Polish Heritage Society. May 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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- ^ Stockwell Memorial Mural. London Mural Preservation Society. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ Low, Valentine (5 February 2008). "First public statue of a black woman". Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
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- ^ Historic England. "Dyce Drinking Fountain (1391393)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Streatham War Memorial (1440589)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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- ^ "Artist's CV and list of commissions". Ekkehard Altenburger. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Following the Leader (Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz) (1430235)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Sculptural relief of Boys Playing Football (1430273)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing (1430263)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ Porter, Laura. "Victoria Line tile motifs – Vauxhall". Go London. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ Hatts, James (14 November 2015). "Indian PM Modi unveils Basaveshwara bust on Albert Embankment". London SE1. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ Mellegatti, Sachin (20 November 2015). "Shivamogga sculptor behind London's Basavanna bust". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
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- ^ "London and South Western Railway Arch". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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- ^ Sculpture to Commemorate Principal Eva Hubback. Art UK. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ Blake's Lambeth (2005–2015). London School of Mosaic. 27 December 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
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Bibliography[]
- Matthews, Peter (2018). London's Statues and Monuments. Oxford: Shire Publications.
External links[]
- Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Lambeth at Wikimedia Commons
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