List of architectural sculpture in the City of Westminster

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This article lists architectural sculpture in the City of Westminster in central London.

Architectural sculpture type of sculpture

Architectural sculpture is the use of sculptural techniques by an architect and/or sculptor in the design of a building, bridge, mausoleum or other such project. The sculpture is usually integrated with the structure, but freestanding works that are part of the original design are also considered to be architectural sculpture.

City of Westminster City and borough in London

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough that also holds city status. It occupies much of the central area of Greater London including most of the West End. Historically in Middlesex, it is to the west of the ancient City of London, directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and its southern boundary is the River Thames. The London borough was created with the 1965 establishment of Greater London. Upon its creation, it inherited the city status previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster from 1900, which was first awarded to Westminster in 1540.

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Aldwych / Strand

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Kaled by Giuseppe Grandi, 193 Fleet Street, London.jpg Kaled (also known as Lara's Page or Kaled on the Morning of Lara's Battle)193 Fleet Street 1872–1873 Giuseppe Grandi Archer & GreenStatue in niche Grade II [1]
Nineteenth-century office buildings, where Chancery Lane meets Fleet Street (geograph 2244231).jpg Architectural sculpture193 Fleet Street 1883Houghton of Great Portland StreetArcher & Green Grade II [1]
Slightly under-dressed young woman waiting for her case to be called at the Law Courts - geograph.org.uk - 1133150.jpg Truth, Justice, Liberty and Mercy The Law Society 1902–1904Charles Pibworth Charles Holden Grade II* [2]
Count Peter of Savoy (7945253616).jpg Statue of Peter II, Count of Savoy Savoy Hotel, Strand1904 (erected)Frank Lynn Jenkins Thomas Edward Collcutt Statue Grade II [3]
Zimbabwean embassy in London.jpg The Ages of Man429 Strand (Zimbabwe House)1907–1908 Jacob Epstein Charles Holden Grade II
Australia House 2 (8013462466).jpg 2 groups of figuresEither side of main entrance of Australia House, Aldwych/Strand 1915–1918 Harold Parker Alexander Marshall Mackenzie Grade II
Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun.jpg Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun Australia House, Aldwych/Strand 1923 Bertram Mackennal Alexander Marshall Mackenzie Grade II [4]
Andrew Young memorial.jpg Memorial to Andrew Young Strand, rear of central block of Bush House

51°30′45″N0°07′01″W / 51.5125°N 0.1169°W / 51.5125; -0.1169 (Memorial to Andrew Young)
1924Eric Bradbury Harvey Wiley Corbett (Bush House)Plaque with portrait reliefN/AInscribed IN MEMORY OF/ ANDREW YOUNG F.S.I/ FIRST VALUER TO THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL/ 1884–1914/ HE LABOURED TO BEAUTIFY/ THE LONDON HE LOVED. Young oversaw the building of Aldwych and Kingsway in 1899–1905. [5] [6]
High Commission of India in London 1.jpg Two elephants and a replica of the Lion Capital of Ashoka India House, Aldwych 1930s Grade II [7]
Twelve decorations representing the states of India India House, Aldwych 1930s Grade II [8]
Bush House, London, Closeup (cropped).jpg Anglo-American Friendship Bush House, Aldwych

51°30′47″N0°07′03″W / 51.5131°N 0.1175°W / 51.5131; -0.1175 (Anglo-American Friendship)
1924–1925 Malvina Hoffman Harvey Wiley Corbett (Bush House) Grade II [9]
Bluerain2009 Michael Brown [10]

Covent Garden

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Fountain Theatre Royal Drury Lane.jpg Augustus Harris Memorial Drinking Fountain Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Catherine Street)1897 Thomas Brock Sidney R. J. Smith Drinking fountain with bust [11]
David Garrick memorial plaque.JPG Memorial to David Garrick 27 Southampton Street1901 Henry Charles Fehr Charles Fitzroy Doll Plaque with relief sculptureN/AA profile portrait of the actor is flanked by figures of the Tragic and Comic Muses. Inscribed DAVID GARRICK/ LIVED HERE/ 1750–1772/ ΜΕΛΠΟΜΕΝΗ/ ΘΑΛΕΙΑ [12]
Relief sculpture in Covent Garden London.jpg Market MemorialSouthampton Street2006Glynis Jones OwenCovent Garden Housing Project ArchitectsBronze relief panelN/ACommemorates the fruit traders who worked at Covent Garden Market from 1670 to 1974. The deliberately crude style is intended to be in the spirit of the chapbooks popular in the 18th century. [13] [14]

Fitzrovia

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Window Caryatids (20869845396).jpg Atalante and Caryatid 82 Mortimer Street1896 Arthur Beresford Pite
Prospero and Ariel (94216050).jpg
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Prospero and Ariel Broadcasting House, Langham Place1931 Eric Gill
Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety.jpg Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety Broadcasting House, Langham Place1931 Eric Gill
Ariel Hears Celestial Music (93242284).jpg Ariel hearing Celestial Music Broadcasting House, Langham Place1931 Eric Gill
BBC Speakerthon 20.JPG Ariel piping to the Children Broadcasting House, Langham Place1931 Eric Gill
John Nash-1.jpg Bust of John Nash All Souls Church, Langham Place 1956 Cecil Thomas after William Behnes [15]
Barbara Hepworth Winged Figure 1963.jpg Winged Figure Outside John Lewis department store, Oxford Street1963 Barbara Hepworth
Breathing Egton Wing, Broadcasting House, Langham Street2008 (unveiled) Jaume Plensa
WorldEgton Wing, Broadcasting House, Langham StreetMark Pimlott

Kensington

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Sir Clements Robert Markham Bust.jpg Bust of Clements Markham Royal Geographical Society, courtyard1921 F. W. Pomeroy Bust Grade II* [16]
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Statue of Ernest Shackleton Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road façade

51°30′05″N0°10′29″W / 51.5015°N 0.17479°W / 51.5015; -0.17479 (Statue of Ernest Shackleton)
1927–1932 Charles Sargeant Jagger Statue in niche Grade II* [17] [18]
Statue of David Livingstone, Royal Geographical Society.jpg
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Statue of David Livingstone Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore façade

51°30′06″N0°10′30″W / 51.50161°N 0.17498°W / 51.50161; -0.17498 (Statue of David Livingston)
1953 T. B. Huxley-Jones Statue in niche Grade II* [18]

Knightsbridge

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Triga by Franta Belsky, One Knightsbridge Green.jpg Triga1 Knightsbridge Green (formerly Caltex House)1958 Franta Belsky Stone, Toms and Partners (1955–1957)
Hurley, Robertson and Associates (2001 refurbishment)
Sculptural group [19] [20]
Four SeasonJumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, south façade1961 Elisabeth Frink Michael RosenhauerReliefs [21]

Marylebone

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Epstein, Madonna and Child, Dean's Mews.jpg Madonna and ChildDean's Mews1952 Jacob Epstein Louis Osman [22]
Charles Dickens sculptured panel - geograph.org.uk - 1298752.jpg Charles Dickens PanelFerguson House, Marylebone Road1960Estcourt James (Jim) ClackClifford Culpin [23]
Heron Blandford Street.jpg HeronGeorge Street
Plaza Oxford Street (6265796647).jpg GirlThe Plaza, 116–132 Oxford Street1997 Michael Rizzello [24]
Westminster DoubleRichbourne Court, Harrowby Street2003Hamish Black [25]

Mayfair

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Painting Colnaghi, 144–146 New Bond Street1911 Henry Poole Lanchester & Rickards [26]
Science70–71 New Bond StreetThomas Rudge [26]
Roslyn's Commerce in New Bond Street..JPG Commerce70–71 New Bond Street Louis Frederick Roslyn [26]
Art by Louis Frederick Roslyn.JPG Art70–71 New Bond Street Louis Frederick Roslyn [26]
Time–Life ScreenNew Bond Street1952–1953 Henry Moore [27]
American Eagle by Theodore Roszak, US Embassy, London.jpg Eagle U.S. Embassy, Grosvenor Square1960 Theodore Roszak [28]
Helix, One Curzon Street.JPG Helix1–4 Curzon Street1998 Eilìs O'Connell [29]
Verge23 Savile Row 2003–2008 Joel Shapiro Eric Parry [30]
Entrance Sculpture1 Hanover Street2005 Bruce McLean Sheppard Robson [31]

Burlington House

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Michelangelo Burlington House1870s William Calder Marshall
Titian Burlington House1870s William Calder Marshall
Phidias Burlington House1870s Joseph Durham
William of Wykeham Burlington House1870s Joseph Durham
John Flaxman Burlington House1870s Henry Weekes
Raphael Burlington House1870s Henry Weekes
Leonardo da Vinci Burlington House1870s Edward Bowring Stephens
Joshua Reynolds Burlington House1870s Edward Bowring Stephens
Christopher Wren Burlington House1870s Edward Bowring Stephens

6 Burlington Gardens

6 Burlington Gardens, now used by the Royal Academy, was designed by James Pennethorne in 1866–1867 for the University of London. In 1868 the university's Senate proposed the subjects of the 22 statues for the façade: Isaac Newton to represent Science, Jeremy Bentham for Law, John Milton for the Arts and William Harvey for Medicine; Galen, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Tribonian (replaced in the final scheme by Justinian) as representatives of "ancient culture", and the "illustrious foreigners" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Finally, Adam Smith, John Locke, Francis Bacon, John Hunter, William Shakespeare (replaced by David Hume) and John Dalton (replaced by Humphry Davy) were included as "English worthies", although Smith, Hunter and Hume were Scottish. Shakespeare was substituted as his achievement was felt to be "independent of academic influence"; instead he was commemorated with a statue apart, inside the building. [32]

6 Burlington Gardens building in Mayfair, London, England

6 Burlington Gardens is a Grade II*-listed building in Mayfair, London. Built for the University of London, it has been used by various institutions in the course of its history, including the Civil Service Commission, the British Museum and, currently, the Royal Academy of Arts.

Sir James Pennethorne was a 19th-century English architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.

University of London federal public university in London, United Kingdom

The University of London is a collegiate federal research university located in London, England. As of October 2018, the university contains 18 member institutions, central academic bodies and research institutes. The university has over 52,000 distance learning external students and 161,270 campus-based internal students, making it the largest university by number of students in the United Kingdom.

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
6 Burlington Gardens facade Leibniz.jpg Statue of Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizFirst storey1870s Patrick MacDowell James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
6 Burlington Gardens facade Cuvier.jpg Statue of Georges CuvierFirst storey1870s Patrick MacDowell James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
6 Burlington Gardens facade Linnaeus.jpg Statue of Carl LinnaeusFirst storey1870s Patrick MacDowell James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
6 Burlington Gardens facade Smith.jpg Statue of Adam SmithFirst storey1870s William Theed James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
6 Burlington Gardens facade Locke.jpg Statue of John LockeFirst storey1870s William Theed James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
6 Burlington Gardens facade Bacon.jpg Statue of Francis BaconFirst storey1870s William Theed James Pennethorne Statue in niche [32]
Sir Isaac Newton (20860497952) (2).jpg Statue of Isaac NewtonAbove the portico1870s Joseph Durham James Pennethorne Seated statue [32]
Statue of Jeremy BenthamAbove the portico1870s Joseph Durham James Pennethorne Seated statue [32]
Statue of John MiltonAbove the portico1870s Joseph Durham James Pennethorne Seated statue [32]
Statue of William HarveyAbove the portico1870s Joseph Durham James Pennethorne Seated statue [32]
Statue of Galileo GalileiEastern balustrade1870sEdward William Wyon James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEastern balustrade1870sEdward William Wyon James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of Pierre-Simon LaplaceEastern balustrade1870sEdward William Wyon James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of GalenCentral balustrade1870s James Sherwood Westmacott James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of CiceroCentral balustrade1870s James Sherwood Westmacott James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of AristotleCentral balustrade1870s James Sherwood Westmacott James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of PlatoCentral balustrade1870s William F. Woodington James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of ArchimedesCentral balustrade1870s William F. Woodington James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Sattue of Justinian ICentral balustrade1870s William F. Woodington James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Satteu of John HunterWestern balustrade1870s Matthew Noble James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of David HumeWestern balustrade1870s Matthew Noble James Pennethorne Statue [32]
Statue of Humphry DavyWestern balustrade1870s Matthew Noble James Pennethorne Statue [32]

Millbank

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Thames house st george sculpture.jpg Saint George Thames House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger
Thames house britannia sculpture.jpg Britannia Thames House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger
Imperial Chemical Jagger01.jpg Marine Transport Imperial Chemical House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger
Imperial Chemical Jagger02.jpg The Sower Imperial Chemical House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger
Imperial Chemical Jagger03.jpg Chemistry Imperial Chemical House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger
Imperial Chemical Jagger04.jpg The Builder Imperial Chemical House 1928 Charles Sargeant Jagger

St James's

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Sotheby's london new-bond-street.jpg Bust of Sekhmet Sotheby's, 34–35 New Bond Street1320 BC c.1320 BCBust
Athenaeum Club statue (25300078589).jpg Pallas Athene Athenaeum Club, Waterloo Place1828 c.1828 Edward Hodges Baily Decimus Burton Statue Grade I
Peter De Wint Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
John Robert Cozens Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
David Cox Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
Paul Sandby Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
George Barret, Jr. Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
Thomas Girtin Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
J. M. W. Turner Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
William Henry Hunt Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Piccadilly Edward Onslow Ford Edward Robert Robson Bust Grade II [26]
Allegorical figures Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, PiccadillyFrancis Verheyden Edward Robert Robson Grade II [26]
Justice by H. C. Binney, 162-165 Piccadilly, London.jpg Justice162–165 Piccadilly1907–1909Hibbert Charles BinneyRuntz & Ford Grade II [33]
Splendor Sine Occasu.jpg Justice, Progress and Industry and the arms of British Columbia 11 Charles II Street (formerly British Columbia House), Regent Street St James's façade1914 c.1914 F. W. Pomeroy Alfred Burr Grade II [34]
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Clock Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly1964 Eric Aumonier Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie (1926–1929)Automated clock [35]
Moonlight Ramble (4869644059).jpg Moonlight RambleHaymarket House, 27 Haymarket1992Jane Ackroyd [36]
States of MindCarlton House Terrace1999David John KentRelief

Soho

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Detail, Criterion Theatre (8015392250).jpg Four statues in niches Criterion Theatre and Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus 1871–1874 c.1871–1874Edward William Wyon Thomas Verity Architectural sculpture Grade II* [37]
Bust of the 14th Earl of Derby, Great Windmill Street.jpg Bust of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby St Peter's School, Great Windmill Street 1871Attributed to Hamilton MacCarthy, after Matthew Noble [38]
Wyndham's Theatre London 2011 4.jpg Muses and putti surrounding a bust of Shakespeare Wyndham's Theatre, 32–36 Charing Cross Road 1899? W. G. R. Sprague Relief [39]
48 Greek Street (geograph 5657941).jpg M. Gaudin riding a snail L'Escargot, 48 Greek Street1900 c.1900?ReliefN/A [40]
Euterpe, Archer Street.jpeg Euterpe 13–14 Archer Street1912Charles PibworthAdams & HoldenReliefN/A [41]
Britannia Piccadilly Circus.jpg Britannia and many other figuresCounty Fire Office Building, 218–222 Regent Street 1924–1927 c.1924–1927 Joseph Hermon Cawthra Ernest Newton Architectural sculpture Grade II [42]
Londres, Carnaby Street, Shakespeare's Head Pub.jpg Bust of William Shakespeare The Shakespeare's Head pub, 29 Great Marlborough Street, on the corner with Fouberts Place1928?G. G. MacfarlaneBustN/A [43]
Relief panel, Vue West End cinema (geograph 5356851).jpg Sight and Sound Vue West End, Leicester Square1938 Edward Bainbridge Copnall E. A. Stone and T. R. SomerfordReliefsN/A [44]
Orion House, St Martin's Lane, London (3422938969).jpg The Spirit of ElectricityOrion House (formerly Thorn House), Lichfield Street1958–1961 Geoffrey Clarke Renton Howard Wood Levine Grade II [45]
Horses of Helios (5821339237).jpg
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The Horses of Helios Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus 1992Rudy WellerN/A [46]
Soaring figures at roof level. - geograph.org.uk - 510361.jpg
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The Three GracesCoventry Street1992Rudy WellerN/A
Chinese Lion on Wardour Street.jpg
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Lion64 Shaftesbury Avenue (corner with Wardour Street)2009Hsiao-Chi Tsai and Kimiyo YoshikawaN/A [47]
Blackbird and Lions decoration (32050935750).jpg Blackbird (the persistence of vision)48 Leicester Square 2016 Kenny Hunter MAKE Architects Reliefs [48]

Temple

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Gateway from Devereux Court 20130414 078.JPG Bust of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex Devereux Court1676 c.1676Attributed to Caius Gabriel Cibber Bust Grade II [49]
Winged FormAbbey Life House, Arundel Street1968Geoffrey Wickham [50]
The Marchers King's College, London 1975 Fred Kormis Relief [51]

Trafalgar Square and vicinity

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Royal coat of arms, St Martin-in-the-Fields.jpg Royal Coat of Arms St Martin-in-the-Fields 1721–1726 c.1721–1726Christopher Cass, Senior James Gibbs Pediment relief Grade I [52]
Europe and Asia National Gallery (main portico) Charles Rossi William Wilkins Reliefs Grade I
Victories and other female figures National Gallery (east and west entrance porticoes) William Wilkins Statues in niches Grade I
Britannia, National Gallery.jpg Minerva (originally Britannia)National Gallery (east façade) John Flaxman ; completed by Edward Hodges Baily William Wilkins Architectural sculpture Grade I
Norway House-Roslyn 2.JPG CommerceNorway House, Cockspur Street 1914 Louis Frederick Roselieb Metcalfe & Greig [53]
Norway House-Roslyn.JPG TransportNorway House, Cockspur Street 1914 Louis Frederick Roselieb Metcalfe & Greig [53]
Norway House.JPG IndustryNorway House, Cockspur Street 1914 Louis Frederick Roselieb Metcalfe & Greig [53]
Norway House 1.JPG CommunicationsNorway House, Cockspur Street 1914 Louis Frederick Roselieb Metcalfe & Greig [53]
Londres, 14-16 Cockspur Street, SW1 Quis Separabit.jpg Asia and Britannia Brazilian Embassy, Cockspur Street 1918 Ernest George Gillick H. W. Stock and A. T. BoltonCaryatids Grade II [54]
Statue of St Olaf, Norway House, London.jpg Statue of Olaf II of Norway Norway House, Cockspur Street Gustav Lærum Johannes Thorvaldsen Westbye (Modification of building by Metcalfe & Grieg)Statue in niche
Bartolomeu Dias, South Africa House (cut).JPG Statue of Bartolomeu Dias South Africa House, Trafalgar Square1934 Coert Steynberg Herbert Baker Statue in niche Grade II* [55]
Springbok on South Africa House - geograph.org.uk - 1706125.jpg Winged springbok South Africa House, Trafalgar Square1934 Charles Wheeler Herbert Baker Architectural sculpture Grade II* [56]
Architectural Detail - geograph.org.uk - 777000.jpg Endangered Species and portrait headsGrand Buildings, Strand and Northumberland Avenue1991 c.1991Barry BaldwinSidell Gibson and AssociatesReliefsN/A
ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay St Martin's Place façade (over entrance) Ewan Christian Grade II
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope St Martin's Place façade (over entrance) Ewan Christian Grade II
Thomas Carlyle St Martin's Place façade (over entrance) Ewan Christian Grade II
William Lodge St Martin's Place façade (facing north) Ewan Christian Grade II
Thomas Fuller St Martin's Place façade Ewan Christian Grade II
James Granger St Martin's Place façade (facing north) Ewan Christian Grade II
William Faithorne St Martin's Place façade (facing north) Ewan Christian Grade II
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon St Martin's Place façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Horace Walpole St Martin's Place façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Hans Holbein the Younger Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Anthony van Dyck Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Peter Lely Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Godfrey Kneller Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
William Hogarth Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Joshua Reynolds Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Louis-François Roubiliac Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Thomas Lawrence Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Irving Street façade Ewan Christian Grade II

Victoria

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Buckingham Palace Riding School bas-relief.jpg Hercules taming the horses of Diomedes Buckingham Palace Riding School, Buckingham Palace Road 1859 William Theed James Pennethorne Relief Grade I [57]
Blewcoat School 2.jpg Blewcoat Charity Boy Blewcoat School, Caxton Street1709
Queen Victoria and Edward VII Caxton Hall 1902 [58]
Victoria Palace Theatre London 2011 4.jpg Anna Pavlova plus 2 female figures, top of building Victoria Palace Theatre
Speed Wingows Over the World - Eric Broadbent - London.jpg Speed Wings Over the World National Audit Office building (formerly Imperial Airways building)Eric Broadbent
JacobEpstein DayAndNight.jpg Day and Night 55 Broadway 1929 Jacob Epstein Charles Holden
North Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Alfred Horace Gerrard Charles Holden
St James's Park Station sculptures - North Wind by Eric Gill.jpg North Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Eric Gill Charles Holden
East Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Eric Gill Charles Holden
St James's Park Station sculptures - East Wind by Allan G. Wyon.jpg East Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Allan G. Wyon Charles Holden
St James's Park Station sculptures - South Wind by Eric Gill.jpg South Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Eric Gill Charles Holden
South Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Eric Aumonier Charles Holden
55Broadway SamuelRabinovich WestWind.jpg West Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Samuel Rabinovitch Charles Holden
HenryMoore WestWind.jpg West Wind 55 Broadway 1928 Henry Moore Charles Holden
The Friary Francis Street - geograph.org.uk - 1194367.jpg Saint Francis 47 Francis Street1961 Arthur Fleischmann Henry Astley Darbishire [49]
Split Form No. 910 Dean Farrar Street1983–1984Michael MarriottMichael Lyell Associates [59]
Planned GrowthRowan House, Greycoat Street1986–1987Peter ThursbyRenton Howard Wood Levine [60]
Endangered Species TriptychSaga House, Allington StreetBarry BaldwinSidell Gibson and Associates [61]

Victoria Embankment

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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Norman Shaw plaque (cropped).JPG Memorial to Richard Norman Shaw Norman Shaw North Building

51°30′08″N0°07′27″W / 51.5022°N 0.1242°W / 51.5022; -0.1242
1914 William Hamo Thornycroft William Lethaby Plaque Grade I (building)Unveiled 13 July 1914. Lethaby commended Thornycroft on his posthumous likeness of Shaw: "You must have remembered much, the curled over lip and the serious smiling, saucy look are so alike..." The building is often regarded as Shaw's masterpiece. [62]

Westminster

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row, London SW1 - geograph.org.uk - 714864.jpg Bust of Emery HillUnited Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row1675 c.1675Anon.R. R. Arntz (rebuilding)Bust Grade II [63]
Queen Anne statue Queen Anne's Gate.jpg
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Statue of Queen Anne Outside 13 Queen Anne's Gate1708 at latest Francis Bird Statue Grade I [64]
Bust of Rev. James PalmerUnited Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row1882 c.1882Anon.R. R. ArntzBust Grade II [65]
The head of King Charles (29728497686).jpg Bust of Charles I St Margaret's Church 20th century?Anon. (after Anthony van Dyck)W. A. Forsyth (niche)Bust Grade I [66]
Sacred Heart Church, Horseferry Road, London.jpg Christ of the Sacred HeartChapel of the Sacred Heart, Horseferry Road1964 Arthur Fleischmann Harry G. ClacyArchitectural sculptureN/A [67]
Willi Soukop's sculpture of a man from 'Man and Woman' outside Albany House in Petty France.jpg Man and WomanAlbany House, Petty France 1964 Willi Soukop D. E. HarringtonArchitectural sculptureN/A [68]

Westminster Abbey

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Kolbe).jpg Statue of Saint Maximilian Kolbe Above Great West Door1998Andrew TannerStatue in niche Grade I [69]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Masemola).jpg Statue of Manche Masemola Above Great West Door1998John RobertsStatue in niche Grade I [70]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Luwum).jpg Statue of Archbishop Janani Luwum Above Great West Door1998Neil SimmonsStatue in niche Grade I [71]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Elizabeth).jpg Statue of Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia Above Great West Door1998John RobertsStatue in niche Grade I [72]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (King).jpg Statue of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Above Great West Door1998Tim CrawleyStatue in niche Grade I [73]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Romero).jpg Statue of Archbishop Óscar Romero Above Great West Door1998John RobertsStatue in niche Grade I [74]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Bonhoeffer).jpg Statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Above Great West Door1998Tim CrawleyStatue in niche Grade I [75]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Esther John).jpg Statue of Esther John Above Great West Door1998Neil SimmonsStatue in niche Grade I [76]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Tapiedi).jpg Statue of Lucian Tapiedi Above Great West Door1998Tim CrawleyStatue in niche Grade I [77]
London UK Sculptures-at-Westminister-Abbey-Westgate-01 (Wang Zhiming).jpg Statue of Wang Zhiming Above Great West Door1998Neil SimmonsStatue in niche Grade I [78]

Whitehall

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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Banqueting House - bust of King Charles I.jpg Bust of Charles I Banqueting House 1800 c.1800Anon.Bust Grade I One of three busts of Charles I found in a builder's yard in Fulham by Hedley Hope-Nicholson, Secretary of the Society of King Charles the Martyr, in 1945. [79] Installed here in 1950. [80] The plaque below is inscribed HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I/ PASSED THROUGH THIS HALL AND/ OUT OF A WINDOW NEARLY OVER/ THIS TABLET TO THE SCAFFOLD/ IN WHITEHALL WHERE HE WAS/ BEHEADED ON 20TH JANUARY 1649.
Red Lion, Parliament St, London (3rd floor details).jpg Bust of Charles Dickens The Red Lion, Parliament Street1900Anon. Grade II [81]
King Charles Street closed entry - panoramio.jpg
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ArchwayKing Charles Street1908 Paul Raphael Montford and William Silver Frith John Brydon and Henry Tanner Grade II* [82]
Earth and Water Statues on MoD Main Building in London MOD 45152995.jpg
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Earth and Water Horse Guards Avenue, outside Ministry of Defence Main Building 1924 Charles Wheeler Vincent Harris Grade II [56]
London 074 Dept of Energy 3 Whitehall Place (9185416307).jpg Agriculture and Sea and Fisheries3 Whitehall Place1952 c.1952 James Woodford C. E. Mee Grade II* [83]

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
America Whitehall.jpg AmericaWhitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) Henry Hugh Armstead Relief [84]
Australasia Whitehall.jpg AustralasiaWhitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) Henry Hugh Armstead Relief [85]
Africa Whitehall.jpg AfricaWhitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) Henry Hugh Armstead Relief [86]
Asia Whitehall.jpg AsiaWhitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) Henry Hugh Armstead Relief [87]
Europe Whitehall.jpg EuropeWhitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) Henry Hugh Armstead Relief [88]
Captain James Cook Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Sir John Franklin Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
William Wilberforce Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
David Livingstone Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Sir Francis Drake Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Elizabeth I Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Alfred the Great Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Edward the Confessor , an Angel and ChristianityWhitehall façade (roundel in lunette and surrounding spandrels on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
AEthelbert statue.JPG Æthelberht of Wessex Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Adam Smith Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
SinclairWhitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Sir Francis Bacon Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Sir Joshua Reynolds Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette on second storey) Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip Relief
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon North façade1937 William Reid Dick Edwin Lutyens Relief [89]

Old War Office Building

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
Old War Office, Whitehall, London 02.jpg Sorrow of Peace and Winged Messenger of PeaceWhitehall façade Alfred Drury William Young and Clyde Young [90]
Horrors of War and Dignity of WarWhitehall façade Alfred Drury William Young and Clyde Young [90]
Truth and JusticeWhitehall Place façade Alfred Drury William Young and Clyde Young [90]
Victory and Fame Horse Guards Avenue façade Alfred Drury William Young and Clyde Young [90]

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