This is a list of public art in Leeds , including statues and other memorials. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and as such does not include, for example, works in museums.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Untitled | Armley Park | c. 1897 | Burmantofts Pottery | Plaque | Glazed terracotta | 1m long | Grade II | Q26547555 | [1] [2] | |
Untitled | Armley Park | c. 1897 | Burmantofts Pottery | Plaque | Glazed terracotta | 1m long | Grade II | Q26547552 | [1] [3] | |
More images | War memorial | Armley Park | 1921 | Sir Charles Nicholson | Cross on supporting pillars and a hexagonal base with plaques | Stone and bronze | Grade II | Q26547558 | [4] [5] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Reflections of Carnival Leeds West Indian Carnival | Savile Mount | 2023 | Rhian Kempadoo-Millar | Mural | 13m × 9m | — | Q124700212 | Unveiled 3 October 2023. [6] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Leeds Patronising the Arts and Encouraging the Sciences | Leeds Town Hall | 1858 | John Thomas | Sculpture relief | Stone | Grade I | [1] [7] | ||
More images | Lions | Leeds Town Hall | 1867 | William Day Keyworth, Jnr. | 4 statues | Portland stone | Grade I | [8] [9] | ||
More images | Leeds Rifles War Memorial | Outside Leeds Minster, Kirkgate | 1921 | Edwin Lutyens | Cross with bench and inserts | Portland stone and bronze | Grade II | Q26655868 | [10] [11] | |
More images | War memorial | The Headrow | 1922 | Henry Charles Fehr | Obelisk with 3 statues | Portland stone and bronze | 7m tall | Grade II | Q26547390 | Architect, Reginald Blomfield [12] [13] |
Putto with Turkey | Leeds Civic Hall | c. 1933 | Joseph Hermon Cawthra | Sculpture group | Stone | Grade II* | [1] [14] | |||
Putto with Goat | Leeds Civic Hall | c. 1933 | Joseph Hermon Cawthra | Sculpture group | Stone | Grade II* | [1] [15] | |||
More images | The Dortmund Drayman | Dortmund Square, The Headrow | 1980 | Arthur Shulze-Engels | Statue | Bronze | [16] | |||
More images | Reclining Women: Elbow | Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow | 1981 | Henry Moore | Sculpture | Bronze | Q19759352 | [16] | ||
More images | Game of Boules | Bond Court | 2000 | Roger Burnett | 4 figure statue group | Bronze | [16] | |||
More images | Arthur Louis Aaron | Eastgate roundabout, Quarry Hill | 2001 | Graham Ibbeson | Sculpture group | Bronze | [17] | |||
The Holbeck Sheep | Marshall Street, Holbeck | 2005 | Antonia Stowe | Sculpture | Steel, felt and rope | [18] | ||||
Sheaf Tree | Waterloo Street, Brewery Wharf | 2005 | Chris Knight | Sculpture | Steel | [18] | ||||
More images | Steeped Vessels | Brewery Wharf | 2006 | Ian Randall | Sculpture group | Bronze and stainless steel | [19] [18] | |||
More images | A Reflective Approach | Leeds Dock | 2007 | Kevin Atherton | Sculpture group | Steel and bronze | [18] | |||
More images | Leeds Song Tunnel | Woodhouse Lane | 2013 | Adrian Riley | Text artwork | Steel | [20] | |||
More images | Hibiscus Rising | Meadow Lane, Aire Park | 2023 | Yinka Shonibare | Sculpture | Fibreglass, metal & wood | 9.5m tall | Q122463268 | [21] [22] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | James Watt | Leeds City Square | 1898 | Henry Charles Fehr | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26655856 | [9] [23] | |
More images | Edward, the Black Prince | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Thomas Brock | Equestrian statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II* | Q17533834 | [9] [24] | |
More images | Walter Hook | City Square, Leeds | 1903 | F.W. Pomeroy | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26655854 | [9] [25] | |
More images | Joseph Priestley | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Alfred Drury | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26655864 | [9] [26] | |
More images | Evening | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Alfred Drury | 4 Streetlamps on blocks | Bronze and granite | Grade II | [27] [28] | ||
More images | Morning | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Alfred Drury | 4 Streetlamps on blocks | Bronze and granite | Grade II | [29] [28] | ||
More images | John Harrison | Leeds City Square | 1903 | Henry Charles Fehr | Statue on pedestal with plaque | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26655861 | [1] [30] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Billy Bremner | Elland Road | 1999 | Frances Segelman | Statue on pedestal | Bronze | [31] | |||
More images | Don Revie | Elland Road | 2012 | Graham Ibbeson | Statue on pedestal | Bronze | 2.5m tall | [32] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | War memorial | Otley Road / St Michaels Road, Headingley | 1921 | Sidney Kitson (architect) | Obelisk with panels | Portland stone and bronze | Grade II | Q26547665 | [33] [34] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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ECHOES | Corner of Mabgate and Argyle Road | 2023 | Add Fuel | Mural | 10m × 9m | — | Q124691518 | [35] [36] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Thomas Chippendale | Otley | 1987 | Graham Ibbeson | Statue on pedestal | Bronze | [37] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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More images | Robert Peel | Woodhouse Moor | 1852 | William Behnes | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26655833 | Relocated from Victoria Square in 1937 [9] [38] | |
More images | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Woodhouse Moor | 1854, erected 1858 | Carlo Marochetti | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26656015 | [9] [39] | |
More images | Peter Fairbairn | Woodhouse Square | 1868 | Matthew Noble | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26547184 | [9] [40] | |
More images | Henry Rowland Marsden | Woodhouse Moor | 1878 | John Throp | Statue on pedestal with plaques | Stone and marble | Grade II | Q26547177 | [41] | |
More images | Memorial to Queen Victoria | Woodhouse Moor | 1903 | George Frampton | Seated statue on column with figures and frieze | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II* | Q15979175 | [1] [9] [42] [43] |
Sir William Hamo Thornycroft was an English sculptor, responsible for some of London's best-known statues, including the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster. He was a keen student of classical sculpture and was one of the youngest artists to be elected to the Royal Academy, in 1882, the same year the bronze cast of Teucer was purchased for the British nation under the auspices of the Chantrey Bequest.
Sir William Goscombe John was a prolific Welsh sculptor known for his many public memorials. As a sculptor, John developed a distinctive style of his own while respecting classical traditions and forms of sculpture. He gained national attention with statues of eminent Victorians in London and Cardiff and subsequently, after both the Second Boer War and World War I, created a large number of war memorials. These included the two large group works, The Response 1914 in Newcastle upon Tyne and the Port Sunlight War Memorial which are considered the finest sculptural ensembles on any British monument. Although as a young man he adopted the first name Goscombe, taken from the name of a village in Gloucestershire near his mother's home, he was actively engaged with his native Wales and Welsh culture throughout his career.
Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971), was an English monumental sculptor. During his lifetime he was considered among the leading classical sculptors working in Britain and received several commissions for public monuments, war memorials and architectural sculptures.
Henry Charles Fehr FRBS was a British monumental and architectural sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He produced several notable public sculptures, war memorials and works for civic buildings. These included architectural sculptures for Middlesex Guildhall, for Wakefield County Hall and for Cardiff City Hall. Throughout the 1920s, Fehr created a number of war memorials, often featuring detailed bronze statuary, for British towns and cities. Notable examples of Fehr's war memorials include those at Leeds, Colchester, Keighley and at Burton upon Trent.