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This article lists architectural sculpture in the City of Westminster in central London.
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.
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.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Kaled (also known as Lara's Page or Kaled on the Morning of Lara's Battle) | 193 Fleet Street | 1872–1873 | Giuseppe Grandi | Archer & Green | Statue in niche | Grade II | [1] | |
Architectural sculpture | 193 Fleet Street | 1883 | Houghton of Great Portland Street | Archer & Green | Grade II | [1] | ||
Truth, Justice, Liberty and Mercy | The Law Society | 1902–1904 | Charles Pibworth | Charles Holden | Grade II* | [2] | ||
Statue of Peter II, Count of Savoy | Savoy Hotel, Strand | 1904 (erected) | Frank Lynn Jenkins | Thomas Edward Collcutt | Statue | Grade II | [3] | |
The Ages of Man | 429 Strand (Zimbabwe House) | 1907–1908 | Jacob Epstein | Charles Holden | Grade II | |||
2 groups of figures | Either 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 | Australia House, Aldwych/Strand | 1923 | Bertram Mackennal | Alexander Marshall Mackenzie | Grade II | [4] | ||
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 | 1924 | Eric Bradbury | Harvey Wiley Corbett (Bush House) | Plaque with portrait relief | N/A | Inscribed 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] | |
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] | ||||
Anglo-American Friendship | Bush House, Aldwych 51°30′47″N0°07′03″W / 51.5131°N 0.1175°W | 1924–1925 | Malvina Hoffman | Harvey Wiley Corbett (Bush House) | Grade II | [9] | ||
Bluerain | 2009 | Michael Brown | [10] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Augustus Harris Memorial Drinking Fountain | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Catherine Street) | 1897 | Thomas Brock | Sidney R. J. Smith | Drinking fountain with bust | [11] | ||
Memorial to David Garrick | 27 Southampton Street | 1901 | Henry Charles Fehr | Charles Fitzroy Doll | Plaque with relief sculpture | N/A | A 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] | |
Market Memorial | Southampton Street | 2006 | Glynis Jones Owen | Covent Garden Housing Project Architects | Bronze relief panel | N/A | Commemorates 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] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Atalante and Caryatid | 82 Mortimer Street | 1896 | Arthur Beresford Pite | |||||
More images | Prospero and Ariel | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | ||||
Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | |||||
Ariel hearing Celestial Music | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | |||||
Ariel piping to the Children | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | |||||
Bust of John Nash | All Souls Church, Langham Place | 1956 | Cecil Thomas after William Behnes | [15] | ||||
Winged Figure | Outside John Lewis department store, Oxford Street | 1963 | Barbara Hepworth | |||||
Breathing | Egton Wing, Broadcasting House, Langham Street | 2008 (unveiled) | Jaume Plensa | |||||
World | Egton Wing, Broadcasting House, Langham Street | Mark Pimlott |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bust of Clements Markham | Royal Geographical Society, courtyard | 1921 | F. W. Pomeroy | Bust | Grade II* | [16] | ||
More images | Statue of Ernest Shackleton | Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road façade 51°30′05″N0°10′29″W / 51.5015°N 0.17479°W | 1927–1932 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | Statue in niche | Grade II* | [17] [18] | |
More images | Statue of David Livingstone | Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore façade 51°30′06″N0°10′30″W / 51.50161°N 0.17498°W | 1953 | T. B. Huxley-Jones | Statue in niche | Grade II* | [18] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Triga | 1 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 Season | Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, south façade | 1961 | Elisabeth Frink | Michael Rosenhauer | Reliefs | [21] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Madonna and Child | Dean's Mews | 1952 | Jacob Epstein | Louis Osman | [22] | |||
Charles Dickens Panel | Ferguson House, Marylebone Road | 1960 | Estcourt James (Jim) Clack | Clifford Culpin | [23] | |||
Heron | George Street | |||||||
Girl | The Plaza, 116–132 Oxford Street | 1997 | Michael Rizzello | [24] | ||||
Westminster Double | Richbourne Court, Harrowby Street | 2003 | Hamish Black | [25] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Painting | Colnaghi, 144–146 New Bond Street | 1911 | Henry Poole | Lanchester & Rickards | [26] | |||
Science | 70–71 New Bond Street | Thomas Rudge | [26] | |||||
Commerce | 70–71 New Bond Street | Louis Frederick Roslyn | [26] | |||||
Art | 70–71 New Bond Street | Louis Frederick Roslyn | [26] | |||||
Time–Life Screen | New Bond Street | 1952–1953 | Henry Moore | [27] | ||||
Eagle | U.S. Embassy, Grosvenor Square | 1960 | Theodore Roszak | [28] | ||||
Helix | 1–4 Curzon Street | 1998 | Eilìs O'Connell | [29] | ||||
Verge | 23 Savile Row | 2003–2008 | Joel Shapiro | Eric Parry | [30] | |||
Entrance Sculpture | 1 Hanover Street | 2005 | Bruce McLean | Sheppard Robson | [31] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Michelangelo | Burlington House | 1870s | William Calder Marshall | |||||
Titian | Burlington House | 1870s | William Calder Marshall | |||||
Phidias | Burlington House | 1870s | Joseph Durham | |||||
William of Wykeham | Burlington House | 1870s | Joseph Durham | |||||
John Flaxman | Burlington House | 1870s | Henry Weekes | |||||
Raphael | Burlington House | 1870s | Henry Weekes | |||||
Leonardo da Vinci | Burlington House | 1870s | Edward Bowring Stephens | |||||
Joshua Reynolds | Burlington House | 1870s | Edward Bowring Stephens | |||||
Christopher Wren | Burlington House | 1870s | Edward Bowring Stephens |
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 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.
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.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of Georges Cuvier | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of Carl Linnaeus | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of Adam Smith | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of John Locke | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of Francis Bacon | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | [32] | ||
Statue of Isaac Newton | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Jeremy Bentham | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | [32] | ||
Statue of John Milton | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | [32] | ||
Statue of William Harvey | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Galileo Galilei | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Pierre-Simon Laplace | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Galen | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Cicero | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Aristotle | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Plato | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Archimedes | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Sattue of Justinian I | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Satteu of John Hunter | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of David Hume | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] | ||
Statue of Humphry Davy | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | [32] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Saint George | Thames House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | |||||
Britannia | Thames House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | |||||
Marine Transport | Imperial Chemical House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | |||||
The Sower | Imperial Chemical House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | |||||
Chemistry | Imperial Chemical House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | |||||
The Builder | Imperial Chemical House | 1928 | Charles Sargeant Jagger |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Four statues in niches | Criterion Theatre and Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus | 1871–1874 | c.Edward William Wyon | Thomas Verity | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [37] | |
Bust of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | St Peter's School, Great Windmill Street | 1871 | Attributed to Hamilton MacCarthy, after Matthew Noble | [38] | ||||
Muses and putti surrounding a bust of Shakespeare | Wyndham's Theatre, 32–36 Charing Cross Road | 1899 | ? | W. G. R. Sprague | Relief | [39] | ||
M. Gaudin riding a snail | L'Escargot, 48 Greek Street | 1900? | c.Relief | N/A | [40] | |||
Euterpe | 13–14 Archer Street | 1912 | Charles Pibworth | Adams & Holden | Relief | N/A | [41] | |
Britannia and many other figures | County Fire Office Building, 218–222 Regent Street | 1924–1927 | c.Joseph Hermon Cawthra | Ernest Newton | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [42] | |
Bust of William Shakespeare | The Shakespeare's Head pub, 29 Great Marlborough Street, on the corner with Fouberts Place | 1928 | ? | G. G. Macfarlane | Bust | N/A | [43] | |
Sight and Sound | Vue West End, Leicester Square | 1938 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall | E. A. Stone and T. R. Somerford | Reliefs | N/A | [44] | |
The Spirit of Electricity | Orion House (formerly Thorn House), Lichfield Street | 1958–1961 | Geoffrey Clarke | Renton Howard Wood Levine | Grade II | [45] | ||
More images | The Horses of Helios | Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus | 1992 | Rudy Weller | N/A | [46] | ||
More images | The Three Graces | Coventry Street | 1992 | Rudy Weller | N/A | |||
More images | Lion | 64 Shaftesbury Avenue (corner with Wardour Street) | 2009 | Hsiao-Chi Tsai and Kimiyo Yoshikawa | N/A | [47] | ||
Blackbird (the persistence of vision) | 48 Leicester Square | 2016 | Kenny Hunter | MAKE Architects | Reliefs | [48] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bust of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex | Devereux Court | 1676 | c.Attributed to Caius Gabriel Cibber | Bust | Grade II | [49] | ||
Winged Form | Abbey Life House, Arundel Street | 1968 | Geoffrey Wickham | [50] | ||||
The Marchers | King's College, London | 1975 | Fred Kormis | Relief | [51] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Royal Coat of Arms | St Martin-in-the-Fields | 1721–1726 | c.Christopher 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 | ||||
Minerva (originally Britannia) | National Gallery (east façade) | John Flaxman ; completed by Edward Hodges Baily | William Wilkins | Architectural sculpture | Grade I | |||
Commerce | Norway House, Cockspur Street | 1914 | Louis Frederick Roselieb | Metcalfe & Greig | [53] | |||
Transport | Norway House, Cockspur Street | 1914 | Louis Frederick Roselieb | Metcalfe & Greig | [53] | |||
Industry | Norway House, Cockspur Street | 1914 | Louis Frederick Roselieb | Metcalfe & Greig | [53] | |||
Communications | Norway House, Cockspur Street | 1914 | Louis Frederick Roselieb | Metcalfe & Greig | [53] | |||
Asia and Britannia | Brazilian Embassy, Cockspur Street | 1918 | Ernest George Gillick | H. W. Stock and A. T. Bolton | Caryatids | Grade II | [54] | |
Statue of Olaf II of Norway | Norway House, Cockspur Street | Gustav Lærum | Johannes Thorvaldsen Westbye (Modification of building by Metcalfe & Grieg) | Statue in niche | ||||
Statue of Bartolomeu Dias | South Africa House, Trafalgar Square | 1934 | Coert Steynberg | Herbert Baker | Statue in niche | Grade II* | [55] | |
Winged springbok | South Africa House, Trafalgar Square | 1934 | Charles Wheeler | Herbert Baker | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [56] | |
Endangered Species and portrait heads | Grand Buildings, Strand and Northumberland Avenue | 1991 | c.Barry Baldwin | Sidell Gibson and Associates | Reliefs | N/A |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Hercules taming the horses of Diomedes | Buckingham Palace Riding School, Buckingham Palace Road | 1859 | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Relief | Grade I | [57] | |
Blewcoat Charity Boy | Blewcoat School, Caxton Street | 1709 | ||||||
Queen Victoria and Edward VII | Caxton Hall | 1902 | [58] | |||||
Anna Pavlova plus 2 female figures, top of building | Victoria Palace Theatre | |||||||
Speed Wings Over the World | National Audit Office building (formerly Imperial Airways building) | Eric Broadbent | ||||||
Day and Night | 55 Broadway | 1929 | Jacob Epstein | Charles Holden | ||||
North Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Alfred Horace Gerrard | Charles Holden | ||||
North Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Eric Gill | Charles Holden | ||||
East Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Eric Gill | Charles Holden | ||||
East Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Allan G. Wyon | Charles Holden | ||||
South Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Eric Gill | Charles Holden | ||||
South Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Eric Aumonier | Charles Holden | ||||
West Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Samuel Rabinovitch | Charles Holden | ||||
West Wind | 55 Broadway | 1928 | Henry Moore | Charles Holden | ||||
Saint Francis | 47 Francis Street | 1961 | Arthur Fleischmann | Henry Astley Darbishire | [49] | |||
Split Form No. 9 | 10 Dean Farrar Street | 1983–1984 | Michael Marriott | Michael Lyell Associates | [59] | |||
Planned Growth | Rowan House, Greycoat Street | 1986–1987 | Peter Thursby | Renton Howard Wood Levine | [60] | |||
Endangered Species Triptych | Saga House, Allington Street | Barry Baldwin | Sidell Gibson and Associates | [61] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to Richard Norman Shaw | Norman Shaw North Building 51°30′08″N0°07′27″W / 51.5022°N 0.1242°W | 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] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bust of Emery Hill | United Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row | 1675 | c.Anon. | R. R. Arntz (rebuilding) | Bust | Grade II | [63] | |
More images | Statue of Queen Anne | Outside 13 Queen Anne's Gate | 1708 at latest | Francis Bird | Statue | Grade I | [64] | |
Bust of Rev. James Palmer | United Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row | 1882 | c.Anon. | R. R. Arntz | Bust | Grade II | [65] | |
Bust of Charles I | St Margaret's Church | 20th century? | Anon. (after Anthony van Dyck) | W. A. Forsyth (niche) | Bust | Grade I | [66] | |
Christ of the Sacred Heart | Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Horseferry Road | 1964 | Arthur Fleischmann | Harry G. Clacy | Architectural sculpture | N/A | [67] | |
Man and Woman | Albany House, Petty France | 1964 | Willi Soukop | D. E. Harrington | Architectural sculpture | N/A | [68] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Saint Maximilian Kolbe | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Andrew Tanner | Statue in niche | Grade I | [69] | ||
Statue of Manche Masemola | Above Great West Door | 1998 | John Roberts | Statue in niche | Grade I | [70] | ||
Statue of Archbishop Janani Luwum | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Neil Simmons | Statue in niche | Grade I | [71] | ||
Statue of Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia | Above Great West Door | 1998 | John Roberts | Statue in niche | Grade I | [72] | ||
Statue of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Tim Crawley | Statue in niche | Grade I | [73] | ||
Statue of Archbishop Óscar Romero | Above Great West Door | 1998 | John Roberts | Statue in niche | Grade I | [74] | ||
Statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Tim Crawley | Statue in niche | Grade I | [75] | ||
Statue of Esther John | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Neil Simmons | Statue in niche | Grade I | [76] | ||
Statue of Lucian Tapiedi | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Tim Crawley | Statue in niche | Grade I | [77] | ||
Statue of Wang Zhiming | Above Great West Door | 1998 | Neil Simmons | Statue in niche | Grade I | [78] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bust of Charles I | Banqueting House | 1800 | c.Anon. | 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. | ||
Bust of Charles Dickens | The Red Lion, Parliament Street | 1900 | Anon. | Grade II | [81] | |||
More images | Archway | King Charles Street | 1908 | Paul Raphael Montford and William Silver Frith | John Brydon and Henry Tanner | Grade II* | [82] | |
More images | Earth and Water | Horse Guards Avenue, outside Ministry of Defence Main Building | 1924 | Charles Wheeler | Vincent Harris | Grade II | [56] | |
Agriculture and Sea and Fisheries | 3 Whitehall Place | 1952 | c.James Woodford | C. E. Mee | Grade II* | [83] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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America | Whitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) | Henry Hugh Armstead | Relief | [84] | ||||
Australasia | Whitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) | Henry Hugh Armstead | Relief | [85] | ||||
Africa | Whitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) | Henry Hugh Armstead | Relief | [86] | ||||
Asia | Whitehall façade (spandrel on first storey) | Henry Hugh Armstead | Relief | [87] | ||||
Europe | Whitehall 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 Christianity | Whitehall façade (roundel in lunette and surrounding spandrels on second storey) | Henry Hugh Armstead or John Birnie Philip | Relief | |||||
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 | |||||
Sinclair | Whitehall 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 façade | 1937 | William Reid Dick | Edwin Lutyens | Relief | [89] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Sorrow of Peace and Winged Messenger of Peace | Whitehall façade | Alfred Drury | William Young and Clyde Young | [90] | ||||
Horrors of War and Dignity of War | Whitehall façade | Alfred Drury | William Young and Clyde Young | [90] | ||||
Truth and Justice | Whitehall 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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Cities of London and Westminster is a constituency returning a single Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom Parliament. It is a borough constituency for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer. As with all constituencies, the election is decided using the first past the post system of election. Since its creation at the 1950 general election, the constituency has always elected the candidate nominated by the Conservative Party. It has been represented since 2001 by Mark Field.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, an Inner London borough, has responsibility for some of the parks and open spaces within its boundaries. Most of them are relatively small: many are the typical London square, built to service the houses around that square. Two of the larger open spaces both form part of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, being those at Brompton and Kensal Green. The parks are policed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Parks Police.
The City of Westminster, a central London borough, has 116 parks and open spaces; these include small gardens as well as larger areas of land. The open spaces are managed by Westminster City Council and private resident and business associations. Westminster is also home to four of the Royal Parks. The Royal Parks are managed by Royal Parks.
The statue of James Outram, a work by Matthew Noble, stands on Victoria Embankment Gardens in London, south of Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade II listed structure.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to London:
The Thames Ditton Foundry was a foundry in Thames Ditton in Surrey which operated from 1874 to 1939 and which under various owners produced numerous major statues and monuments as one of the United Kingdom's leading firms of bronze founders.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.