List of public art in the London Borough of Southwark

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

Bankside[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Poured Lines	Southwark Street	2006	Ian Davenport	N/A	Painting	N/A	The largest outdoor painting in Britain.[1]
More images	Monument to the Unknown Artist	Sumner Street	2007	greyworld	N/A	Animatronic statue	N/A	[2]
More images	A Family in Residence	Neo Bankside	2012	Ivan Murray	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A

Bermondsey[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to James Braidwood	Tooley Street	1862	Samuel Henry Gardiner	N/A	Relief		[3]
More images	Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington	Tooley Street 51°30′10″N 0°04′41″W / 51.5029°N 0.0781°W / 51.5029; -0.0781 (Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington)	1910	Sydney March	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[4]
More images	St John Horsleydown War Memorial	St John's Churchyard 51°30′08″N 0°04′42″W / 51.5022°N 0.0784°W / 51.5022; -0.0784 (St John Horsleydown War Memorial)	1920 c. 1920	?	N/A	Crucifix	Grade II	[5]
More images	Bermondsey and Rotherhithe War Memorial	West Lane 51°29′56″N 0°03′38″W / 51.4990°N 0.0605°W / 51.4990; -0.0605 (Bermondsey and Rotherhithe War Memorial)	1921	N/A	?	Memorial column	Grade II	Unveiled October 1921.[6]
	22nd Battalion London Regiment (The Queen's) War Memorial	Old Jamaica Road 51°29′53″N 0°04′15″W / 51.4980°N 0.0709°W / 51.4980; -0.0709 (22nd Battalion London Regiment (The Queen's) War Memorial)	1921	?	?	War memorial	Grade II	Unveiled 20 November 1921.[7]
More images	Bust of Ernest Bevin	Tooley Street 51°30′10″N 0°04′40″W / 51.5028°N 0.0779°W / 51.5028; -0.0779 (Bust of Ernest Bevin)	1955	Ernest Shone-Jones after Edwin Whitney-Smith	N/A	Bust	N/A	[8]
	Lady with a Greyhound	Avondale Square	1962	Antony Weller	N/A	Sculpture
More images	The Navigators	Hay's Galleria	1987	David Kemp				[9]
	Waterfall	Horselydown Square	1991	Antony Donaldson		Fountain with sculpture	N/A	[10]
	Exotic Cargo	St Saviour's Dock footbridge, Butler's Wharf	1995	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[11]
More images	The Bermondsey Lion	The Blue 51°29′33″N 0°03′49″W / 51.4924°N 0.0636°W / 51.4924; -0.0636 (The Bermondsey Lion)	2011	Kevin Boys	N/A	Sculpture	N/A
More images	Dr Salter's Daydream Alfred Salter	Cherry Gardens 51°30′02″N 0°03′35″W / 51.5006°N 0.0597°W / 51.5006; -0.0597 (Dr Salter's Daydream)	2014	Diane Gorvin	N/A	Sculptures	N/A	Replaces a group of the same name installed here in 1991. The seated statue of Dr Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council.[12] The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada.[13]
	Memorial to Albert Edward McKenzie	Tower Bridge Road	2015	Kevin Boys	Tim Wood	Sculpture	N/A	[14]
More images	Cornerstone	Tanner Street Park	2020	Austin Emery	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[15]
More images	Mandela Way T-34 Tank	Mandela Way 51°29′35″N 0°04′58″W / 51.4930°N 0.0827°W / 51.4930; -0.0827 (Mandela Way T-34 Tank)					N/A
	Jacob the Dray Horse	Circle Apartments, Queen Elizabeth Street 51°30′06″N 0°04′28″W / 51.50160°N 0.07438°W / 51.50160; -0.07438 (Jacob the Dray Horse)

Camberwell[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Robert Bentley Todd	King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill	1863	Matthew Noble				[16]
More images	Burgess Park War Memorial	55 Wells Way (formerly St George's Church) 51°28′54″N 0°05′08″W / 51.481784°N 0.085481°W / 51.481784; -0.085481 (Burgess Park War Memorial)	1920	Arild Rosenkrantz	N/A	Statue	Grade II	Unveiled 19 September 1920.[17]
More images	1st Surrey Rifles War Memorial	St Giles's churchyard, Camberwell Church Street 51°28′24″N 0°05′13″W / 51.4733°N 0.0870°W / 51.4733; -0.0870 (1st Surrey Rifles War Memorial)	1921	?	N/A	Memorial cross	Grade II	Unveiled 6 November 1921.[18]
More images	Statue of William Booth	Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51°28′04″N 0°05′19″W / 51.4679°N 0.0886°W / 51.4679; -0.0886 (Statue of William Booth)	1929	George Edward Wade	Giles Gilbert Scott	Statue	Grade II	[19]
More images	Statue of Catherine Booth	Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51°28′04″N 0°05′20″W / 51.4679°N 0.0888°W / 51.4679; -0.0888 (Statue of Catherine Booth)	1929	George Edward Wade	Giles Gilbert Scott	Statue	Grade II	[19]
	Memorial to Damilola Taylor	Oliver Goldsmith Primary School	2001–2002	Alexandra Brooke	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[20]
More images	Run	Denmark Hill	2009	Leigh Dyer	N/A	Sculptures	N/A

Dulwich[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	St Peter's Church War Memorial	St Peter's churchyard, Lordship Lane 51°26′35″N 0°04′03″W / 51.4431°N 0.0675°W / 51.4431; -0.0675 (St Peter's Church War Memorial)	after 1918	?	N/A	Rectangular pillar with flagpole	Grade II	[21]
	St Stephen's Church War Memorial	St Stephen's churchyard, College Road 51°25′56″N 0°04′42″W / 51.4323°N 0.0784°W / 51.4323; -0.0784 (St Stephen's Church War Memorial)	after 1918	?	N/A	Celtic cross	Grade II	[22]
More images	Dulwich College War Memorial	Dulwich College 51°26′25″N 0°05′03″W / 51.4402°N 0.0842°W / 51.4402; -0.0842 (Dulwich College War Memorial)	1920; 1990	N/A	W. H. Atkin-Berry; John Wells-Thorpe	Memorial cross with stelae	Grade II	Unveiled 17 June 1921 by Major General Sir Webb Gillman.[23]
More images	Southwark Military Hospital War Memorial	Former Dulwich Hospital 51°27′32″N 0°04′51″W / 51.4589°N 0.0807°W / 51.4589; -0.0807 (Souhwark Military Hospital War Memorial)	1920; 2009	?	N/A	Memorial cross	Grade II	Unveiled 16 October 1920,[24] on a site about 20m to the west of its current location. Only the base is original, the cross and shaft having been lost after the memorial was put into storage in the 1950s. Restored and reinstalled on this site in 2009.[25]
More images	Dulwich Old College War Memorial	Dulwich Old College 51°26′48″N 0°05′09″W / 51.4468°N 0.0859°W / 51.4468; -0.0859 (Dulwich Old College War Memorial)	1921	N/A	W. D. Caröe	Memorial cross	Grade II	[26]
More images	Memorial to Edward Alleyn	Dulwich Old College 51°26′49″N 0°05′10″W / 51.4469°N 0.0860°W / 51.4469; -0.0860 (Memorial to Edward Alleyn)	2005	Louise Simson	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[27]
More images	Walking the Dog	Dulwich Picture Gallery	2009	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Presented by the Art Fund in 2011 to mark the Dulwich Picture Gallery's bicentenary.[28][29]
	Three Perpetual Chords	Dulwich Park	2015	Conrad Shawcross	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[30]

Elephant and Castle[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Elephant and Castle	Elephant and Castle	1898	?	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[31]
	Borough of Southwark World War II Memorial	Walworth Town Hall, Walworth Road	1949	?	N/A	Tablets	Grade II	Unveiled 11 June 1949.[32]
More images	Michael Faraday Memorial	Elephant and Castle roundabout 51°29′42″N 0°06′02″W / 51.4950°N 0.1006°W / 51.4950; -0.1006 (Michael Faraday Memorial)	1959–1961	N/A	Rodney Gordon	Sculpture	Grade II	[33]
	Southwark Memorial	Walworth Square	2018	Kenny Hunter	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[34]
	Big King	Morley College	?	Glenn Hellman	N/A	Architectural sculpture	N/A	[35]

Kennington[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3	Brandon Estate, Cooks Road 51°28′57″N 0°06′15″W / 51.4825°N 0.1043°W / 51.4825; -0.1043 (Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3)	1961	Henry Moore	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[36]
More images	Segment of the Berlin Wall	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park	?	"Indiano" (Jürgen L. Grosse)	N/A	Segment of wall with graffiti	N/A	[37]
More images	Soviet War Memorial	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 51°29′46″N 0°06′35″W / 51.4962°N 0.1096°W / 51.4962; -0.1096 (Soviet War Memorial)	1999	Sergei Shcherbakov	Garry Breeze	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 9 May (Victory Day) 1999.[38]

Newington[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Alfred the Great	Trinity Church Square 51°29′56″N 0°05′37″W / 51.4989°N 0.0936°W / 51.4989; -0.0936 (Statue of a king, possibly Alfred the Great)	Late 1st – early 2nd century (lower half); early 19th century (upper half)	?	N/A	Statue	Grade II	The lower half is a remnant of a colossal Roman statue, most likely of the goddess Minerva. Previously thought to be either a medieval statue commissioned by Richard II for Westminster Hall, or entirely 18th- or 19th-century.[39]
	The Black Friar	Friars House, Blackfriars Road / Pocock Street	1958	Edward Bainbridge Copnall		Relief		[40]

Peckham[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	History of the Old Kent Road	The Everlasting Arms Ministries (formerly the North Peckham Civic Centre), 600–608 Old Kent Road 51°29′00″N 0°03′56″E / 51.4833°N 0.0655°E / 51.4833; 0.0655 (History of the Old Kent Road)	1964	Adam Kossowski	N/A	Ceramic mural	Grade II	[41]
	Arrows and Obelisks	Tesco, Old Kent Road 51°29′18″N 0°04′34″W / 51.4883°N 0.0762°W / 51.4883; -0.0762 (Arrows and Obelisks)	1995	Peter Logan	N/A	Kinetic sculpture		[42]

Rotherhithe[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	St Mary's Church War Memorial	St Mary's churchyard 51°30′04″N 0°03′15″W / 51.5012°N 0.0542°W / 51.5012; -0.0542 (St Mary's Church War Memorial)	after 1918	?	N/A	Memorial cross	Grade II	[43]
More images	Norwegian Seamen's War Memorial	St Olav's Church 51°29′56″N 0°03′37″W / 51.4990°N 0.0604°W / 51.4990; -0.0604 (Norwegian Seamen's War Memorial)	1927	?	N/A	War memorial	Grade II	[44]
More images	Curlicue	Greenland Dock 51°29′46″N 0°01′58″W / 51.4961°N 0.0327°W / 51.4961; -0.0327 (Curlicue)	1989	William Pye	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[45]
	Bust of James Walker	Greenland Dock 51°29′44″N 0°02′27″W / 51.49542°N 0.04074°W / 51.49542; -0.04074 (Bust of James Walker)	1990	Michael Rizzello	N/A	Bust	N/A	[46]
	Deal Porters	Canada Water	1990	Philip Bews	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	Unveiled 19 October 1990 by Jack Jones.[47]
	Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket	Cumberland Wharf	1991	Peter McLean	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A
	Memorial to Christopher Jones	St Mary's churchyard	1995	Jamie Sargeant	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[48]
	Sustrans Portrait Bench	Greenland Dock 51°29′43″N 0°02′26″W / 51.49530°N 0.04047°W / 51.49530; -0.04047 (Sustrans Portrait Bench)	2013	?	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Depicts Phyllis Pearsall, Michael Caine, and Barry Mason (represented by a bicycle and cormorant).[49]

Southwark[]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Royal Arms of George III	Façade of King's Arms pub, Newcomen Street	1728 c. 1728	N/A	N/A	Architectural sculpture (relief)	Grade II	Originally stood on a gateway that spanned the old London Bridge. Placed on the pub's façade soon after it was completed in 1890.[50]
More images	Statue of Thomas Guy	Guy's Hospital 51°30′15″N 0°05′16″W / 51.5043°N 0.0879°W / 51.5043; -0.0879 (Statue of Thomas Guy)	1734	Peter Scheemakers	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]
	The Sower	Red Cross Garden 51°30′12″N 0°05′41″W / 51.5033°N 0.0948°W / 51.5033; -0.0948 (The Sower)	1896	After Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford	James Powell and Sons (glassmakers)	Mosaic	Grade II	[51]
	Plaque marking the approximate site of the Globe Theatre	Park Street	1909	Édouard Lantéri	N/A	Plaque with relief	N/A	Unveiled by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and commissioned by the Shakespeare Reading Society, of which Tree was President.[52]
More images	Guy's Hospital War Memorial	Guy's Hospital, St Thomas Street 51°30′11″N 0°05′20″W / 51.5030°N 0.0890°W / 51.5030; -0.0890 (Guy's Hospital War Memorial)	1921	N/A	William Walford	Memorial arch	Grade II	Unveiled 16 July 1921 by the Duke of York (the future George V).[53]
More images	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial	London Bridge station 51°30′17″N 0°05′10″E / 51.5046°N 0.086°E / 51.5046; 0.086 (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial)	1921	?	N/A	Plaques	N/A	Unveiled 5 October 1921.[54]
	London Hop Trade War Memorial	Borough High Street 51°30′15″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5043°N 0.0908°W / 51.5043; -0.0908 (London Hop Trade War Memorial)	1922	Omar Ramsden	N/A	Plaque	N/A	Unveiled 19 January 1922.[55]
More images	St Saviour's War Memorial	Borough High Street, opposite Talbot's Yard 51°30′15″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5043°N 0.0909°W / 51.5043; -0.0909 (Southwark War Memorial)	1922	Philip Lindsey Clark	N/A	Statue	Grade II*	Unveiled 16 November 1922.[56]
	Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield	Guy's Hospital 51°29′12″N 0°04′10″W / 51.4866°N 0.0695°W / 51.4866; -0.0695 (Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield)	1949	Maurice Lambert	N/A	Statue	N/A	[57]
More images	Minerva	Southwark Cathedral	1966	Alan Collins	N/A	Statue	N/A	[58]
	The Holy Family	Cathedral Street	1981	Kenneth Hughes	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[59]
	Opus	Nancy Sear Building (Morley College), King Edward Walk	1982–1983	Wendy Taylor	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[60]
More images	Southwark Gateway Needle	London Bridge, at south end 51°30′22″N 0°05′17″W / 51.5062°N 0.0881°W / 51.5062; -0.0881 (Southwark Gateway Needle)	1999	N/A	Eric Parry	Sculpture	N/A	[61]
More images	Couple	More London Place	2003	Stephan Balkenhol	N/A	Statues	N/A	[62][63]
More images	Full Stop	More London	2003	Fiona Banner	N/A	Sculptures	N/A	[62][63]
More images	Evergreen	The Queen's Walk (More London)	2003	David Batchelor	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[62][63]
	Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon	Churchyard of Southwark Cathedral	2006	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 22 November 2006 by Elizabeth II.[64]
	Blue Men	Maya House, Borough High Street	2007	Ofra Zimbalista		Architectural sculpture	N/A
More images	Statue of John Keats	Guy's Hospital	2007	Stuart Williamson	N/A	Statue	N/A	[57]
	Statue of Simon Milton	Outside One Tower Bridge	2016	Philip Jackson	N/A	Statue	N/A

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