This is a list of public artworks in the former Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in London, now a part of the City of Westminster.
This is a list of public artworks in the former Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in London, now a part of the City of Westminster.
Bayswater is a largely residential district north-west of Charing Cross, bordering with the northern end of Kensington Gardens. Its essential character is now defined by the stuccoed terraces erected from 1827 onwards, which spread in a westerly direction over the course of the 19th century. [1]
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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 | Eagle | Orme Square 51°30′37″N0°11′23″W / 51.5103°N 0.1897°W | 1814 | ? | ? | Sculpture on pillar | — | The square is named after Edward Orme, a Bond Street print seller, who also sold two ship-loads of building gravel to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, when he visited London in 1814, and Orme built the square in the same year. The eagle dates from then. Its meaning is a mystery; it is not the eagle from the Orme family crest, and has only one head, so is definitely not the Russian imperial eagle. [2] |
 | Drinking fountain | Bayswater Road, opposite Elms Mews 51°30′41″N0°10′36″W / 51.5114°N 0.1766°W | 1872 | ? | — | Drinking fountain | Grade II | [3] |
 | War memorial | St John's Church, Hyde Park Crescent 51°30′41″N0°10′48″W / 51.5115°N 0.1801°W | after 1919 | ? | — | Cross | Grade II | Commemorates parishioners who died in World War I. [4] |
 More images | Lancaster Gate Memorial Cross Statues of Saints George, Louis, Maurice, Longinus, Adrian, Florian and Eustace | Lancaster Gate 51°30′41″N0°10′48″W / 51.5115°N 0.1801°W | 1921 | Laurence Arthur Turner | Walter Tapper | Memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 27 March 1921. Commemorates residents of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington who gave their lives in World War I. Severely damaged in the Great Storm of 1987. Re-erected on present site on 11 November 2002. [5] |
 More images | Memorial to Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath | Lancaster Gate 51°30′40″N0°10′48″W / 51.5112°N 0.1800°W | 1934 | Joseph Hermon Cawthra | — | Memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 24 May 1934. [6] The inscription on the east face reads, "One King, One Empire, Empire Day"; that on the north, "To him the British Empire was a goodly heritage to be fashioned unto a city of God!" [7] |
 | Coronation of the Virgin | Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Queensway 51°30′42″N0°11′14″W / 51.5118°N 0.1873°W | mid–late 20th century [8] | ? | ? | Mosaic | Grade II | Donated by Mrs Catherine Weston. Built as the United Methodist Free Church, the church was converted to Catholic use in 1954. [9] |
 | Tempesta | The Lancasters, Bayswater Road 51°30′39″N0°10′55″W / 51.5108°N 0.1819°W | 2012 (unveiled) | Helaine Blumenfeld | — | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 2 May 2012. Carved from Carrara marble at Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, the work stands at 4m high. [10] |
 | Bust of Skanderbeg | Lady Samuel's Garden, Inverness Terrace 51°30′50″N0°11′13″W / 51.5139°N 0.1869°W | 2012 | Kreshuik Xhiku | — | Bust | — | Unveiled 28 November 2012. Marks the centenary of Albanian independence. [11] [12] |
Maida Vale is an area of residential terraces and mansion blocks, defined at its southern end by the Regent's and Grand Union Canals. [13]
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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 | Memorial cross | St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace 51°31′54″N0°10′57″W / 51.5318°N 0.1824°W | after 1918 | ? | ? | War memorial | Grade II | Commemorates parishioners who died in World War I. [14] |
 More images | Two Doves | Warwick Crescent | 1965 | William Mitchell / Malcolm Thackwray | Malcolm Thackwray | Relief concrete sculpture | — | Adjacent plaque reads IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BROWNING / TWO DOVES/ SYMBOLISING/ PEACE LOVE AND LEARNING. [15] [16] |
 | System No. 12 | 4 Maida Vale 51°31′35″N0°10′43″W / 51.5263°N 0.1786°W | 2006 | Julian Wild | EDCO Design [17] | Sculpture | — | A commission by the property developers Crest Nicholson. [18] |
| Mural | Westminster Drug Project, Harrow Road 51°31′26″N0°12′01″W / 51.5237723°N 0.2002255°W | 2009 | "Bleach", "Busk" and "Zadok" (from the Elsewhere Collective) | — | Mural | — | [19] |
Paddington is the area west of Marylebone, in the postal district W2. Much of the recent public art in the area is connected to the Paddington Waterside developments.
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Peace, Plenty, Science and Industry | Hilton London Paddington, Praed Street | 1854 | John Thomas | Philip Charles Hardwick | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [20] |
 More images | Statue of Sarah Siddons | Paddington Green 51°31′13″N0°10′27″W / 51.5203°N 0.1741°W | 1897 | Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 14 June 1897 by Henry Irving. [21] Modelled after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783), now in the Huntington Library in California. Siddons attended St Mary's Church on the Green and is buried in the churchyard, near her statue. [22] |
 More images | Great Western Railway War Memorial | Facing Platform 1, Paddington station 51°31′02″N0°10′42″W / 51.5171°N 0.1782°W | 1922 | Charles Sargeant Jagger | Thomas S. Tait | Stone screen with statue | Grade I | Unveiled 11 November 1922 (Armistice Day) by Viscount Churchill. [23] The figure of a soldier stands reading a letter from home in front of a panel of black marble, suggesting the entrance to a trench dugout. [24] |
 | War memorial | St Mary Magdalene's Church, Rowington Close 51°31′20″N0°11′20″W / 51.5223°N 0.1888°W | 1929 | Martin Travers | Calvary | — | [25] | |
 | World War II Memorial Gates | Norfolk Place, between St Mary's Hospital and medical school 51°31′02″N0°10′23″W / 51.5171°N 0.1730°W | 1950 (unveiled) | Charles Wheeler | — | Wrought iron gates | — | Unveiled 20 July 1950. [26] |
 | Paddington Boy Scouts Memorial | Paddington Recreation Ground 51°31′45″N0°11′27″W / 51.5291°N 0.1909°W | 1952 (unveiled) | ? | — | War memorial | — | Commemorates the Boy Scouts of Paddington killed in World War II. The symbol of a circle with a dot in the centre is a sign used by Scouts meaning "gone home". [27] |
| Mural | Paddington Green Police Station | 1971 | John Innes Elliott | Mural | — | [28] | ||
| Murals | Westway flyover, near Royal Oak tube station 51°31′11″N0°11′26″W / 51.5197°N 0.1905°W | 1976–1977 | Public Art Workshop (Desmond Rochford and David Savage) [29] | — | Murals | — | Dedicated "to the working people of Paddington", [30] these were, at the time of their completion, the largest exterior murals in England. [31] A critic for the Observer noted shortly after their completion that "a large dose of social realism has done wonders for the grey desert of Royal Oak". [30] | |
 More images | Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Paddington station | 1982 | John Doubleday | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 26 May 1982. One of two statues of Brunel commissioned by the Bristol & West building society; its companion, a standing figure, was unveiled in Bristol the same day. [32] Originally stood on the main concourse at the entrance to the Underground; relocated in 1998. [22] |
 | Tile motifs | Paddington station | 1984–1987 | David Hamilton | ? | Overprinted industrial ceramic tiles | — | The scheme reproduces patent drawings for Marc Isambard Brunel's early tunnelling shield for the Thames Tunnel, a precursor to those used for the London Underground. [33] |
 | The Messenger, or Getting Back on the Right Foot | In front of St Mary’s Hospital, South Wharf Road 51°31′04″N0°10′27″W / 51.5177°N 0.1742°W | 1993 | Allan Sly | — | Statue | — | [34] [35] |
 More images | Walking Man and Standing Man | Paddington Central 51°31′12″N0°10′48″W / 51.5199°N 0.1800°W | 1998 and 2000 | Sean Henry | — | Statues | — | [36] |
 More images | Statue of Paddington Bear | Paddington station | 2000 | Marcus Cornish | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 24 February 2000 by Michael Bond, the character's creator. [37] Represents his first appearance in A Bear Called Paddington (1958), sitting on a battered suitcase with a label round his neck reading "Please look after this bear. Thank you." [22] |
 | The Family | Sheldon Square, Paddington Central 51°31′10″N0°10′49″W / 51.5195°N 0.1803°W | 2001 | Jon Buck | — | Sculptural group | — | Another cast is situated at Milton Keynes General Hospital. [36] [38] |
 | Untitled (Yellow) | One Kingdom Street, Paddington Central 51°31′09″N0°10′54″W / 51.5192°N 0.1818°W | 2001 | Stephen Gontarski | — | Sculpture | — | Made of glass fibre painted bright yellow and lacquered, the sculpture is intended to invite a "corporeal reception by the public" and to "create a heart in the midst of an urban setting." [39] |
 | Lock, Level, Line | West End Quay, Paddington Basin 51°31′07″N0°10′17″W / 51.5185°N 0.1715°W | 2004 | Danny Lane | — | Sculptures | — | The work consists of four towers made from stacked corten steel and layered glass, which are intended to reflect the changing levels of water in the lock. [40] |
 | Clove 2007 | Cleveland Terrace 51°31′03″N0°10′48″W / 51.5174°N 0.1800°W | 2007 | Bryan Kneale | — | Sculpture | — | [41] |
 | Billy Bob & Mishke | Paddington Central 51°31′09″N0°10′58″W / 51.5192°N 0.1829°W | 2008 | Gary Webb | — | Sculpture | — | Pendant sculptures, located in water features at the extreme edge of the Paddington Central development, of metal frameworks which support "blobs" of steel, painted in bright colours. [36] [39] |
 | Europea 1 and Europea 2 | Paddington Central 51°31′09″N0°10′52″W / 51.5191°N 0.1810°W | 2008 | John Aiken | — | Sculptures | — | Twin sculptures fashioned from Portuguese silver-grey granite with coloured enamel panels attached. [36] [39] |
| Panels | Lindo Wing, St Mary's Hospital 51°31′03″N0°10′28″W / 51.5175°N 0.1744°W | 2012 [42] | Julian Opie | — | Panels | — | Opie wished to go against the general trend of artworks in hospitals by producing works with the aim "not to calm but rather to enliven". [43] | |
 | Mary Seacole, Alan Turing and Michael Bond (pictured) | St Mary's Square 51°31′13″N0°10′36″W / 51.5203°N 0.1768°W | 2013 | ? | — | Statues | — | Three two-dimensional steel statues of notable people who lived in Paddington, as voted for by local residents. From the Portrait Bench series of similar sculptures, commissioned by the charity Sustrans to stand along new cycling routes. [44] |
 | Bearing Up | Sheldon Square, Paddington Central | 2014 | ? | — | Statue | — | Originally part of the Paddington Trail, which marked the release of the film Paddington . The blue colour represents the nearby Grand Union Canal. [45] |
 | Brick Bear | Merchant Square, Paddington Basin | 2014 | Robin Partington and Partners | — | Statue | — | Also from the Paddington Trail, the statue is decorated all over with a pattern of London stock bricks, suggested by the architects of the surrounding development. [45] |
 | Statue of Simon Milton | Merchant Square, Paddington Basin | 2014 | Bruce Denny | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 11 September 2014 by Eric Pickles. [46] Milton played an instrumental role in the regeneration of Paddington Basin and was a friend of the sculptor. [47] |
 | Mural | Westway Flyover Cycleway | 2014 | Robert Dawson | Ceramic mural | — | Includes a portrait of Brunel, a geometric pattern based on the Crossrail logo and other references to the area. [48] | |
 More images | Paddington Bear Book Bench | Paddington station | 2014 | Michelle Heron | — | Painted bench in the shape of an open book | — | Originally part of the National Literacy Trust's Books About Town art trail and now on permanent loan to the station. [45] [49] |
 | A Cloud Index | Elizabeth line entrance, Paddington station | 2016 | Spencer Finch | Weston Williamson | Design printed onto glass canopy | — | 60 pastel drawings of clouds reproduced on 180 glass panels on a 120m-long canopy; one of the largest permanent artworks ever created in London. Installation began in 2017. [50] [51] |
 More images | Message from the Unseen World Alan Turing | Bishop's Bridge Road underpass, Paddington Central | 2016 | United Visual Artists | Nick Drake (poem) | Installation | — | Perforated aluminium panels with LEDs displaying extracts from Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950) as patterns based on Baudot code, combined with a poem specially commissioned from Drake. [52] |
 More images | Abundance | Amphitheatre, Sheldon Square, Paddington Central | 2023 | Adam Nathaniel Furman | Installation | — | A 50m-long curving wall made from metal sheets in bright colours. [53] | |
 | Mural | Grand Union Canal 51°31′22″N0°11′31″W / 51.5228°N 0.1919°W | Kevin Herlihy | — | Mural | — | Made of debris collected by Stowe Youth Club. [54] | |
 More images | Yellow Orange Hermit | Paddington Square | 2024 | Ugo Rondinone | — | Sculpture | — | [55] [56] |
 More images | Somethinging | Paddington Square | 2024 | Pae White | — | Sculpture | — | [55] |
The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It contains a large part of central London, including most of the West End, such as the major shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street, and the entertainment district of Soho. Many London landmarks are within the borough, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Westminster Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, and Trafalgar Square.
Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.
Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847. It is also the site of St Mary's Hospital and the former Paddington Green Police Station.
Lancaster Gate is a London Underground station near Lancaster Gate on Bayswater Road in Paddington, to the north of Kensington Gardens. It is on the Central line between Queensway and Marble Arch stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1.
Queensway is a London Underground station on the Central line in Bayswater, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is at the junction of Queensway and Bayswater Road, and is opposite the north-west corner of Kensington Gardens. It is between Notting Hill Gate to the west and Lancaster Gate to the east, and is in Travelcard Zone 1.
Paddington was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of Paddington became a metropolitan borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council. In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area became part of the City of Westminster in Greater London.
Maida Vale is an affluent residential district in West London, England, north of Paddington, southwest of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn, on the Edgware Road. It is part of the City of Westminster and is 3 miles (5.0 km) north-west of Charing Cross. It has many late Victorian and Edwardian blocks of mansion flats. The area is home to the BBC Maida Vale Studios.
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City of Westminster College is a further education college in the City of Westminster, Greater London, England, founded originally as Paddington Technical Institute in 1904 and gaining its current name in 1990. The college has two centres in central London, located in Paddington and Maida Vale. It also includes the Cockpit Theatre, a fully operational studio theatre used for training and performances, and a range of outreach centres. Since 2017, it is legally merged with the College of North West London (CNWL) although remains publicly distinct; together the United Colleges Group has more than 9,000 enrolled students as of 2019, most in young or adult study programmes and some in apprenticeships.
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Little Venice is an affluent residential district in West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction, also known as Little Venice and Browning's Pool, forms a triangular shape basin designed to allow long canal boats to turn around. Many of the buildings in the vicinity are Regency white painted stucco terraced town houses and taller blocks (mansions) in the same style. The area is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross and immediately north-west of Paddington.
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