List of public art in Shropshire

This is a list of public art in the county of Shropshire , England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.

Bridgnorth

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	War memorial	Bridgnorth Town Park, Bridgnorth 52°31′53″N2°25′10″W / 52.531423°N 2.419347°W / 52.531423; -2.419347	1920, rededicated 1950	Adrian Jones	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone				[1]

Craven Arms

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	Sheep, Rail transport	Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK 52°26′22″N2°50′07″W / 52.43936°N 2.8352°W / 52.43936; -2.8352	2005	Malcolm Robertson	Statue

Ironbridge

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	War memorial	High Street, Ironbridge 52°37′39″N2°29′06″W / 52.627599°N 2.485034°W / 52.627599; -2.485034	1924	Arthur George Walker	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone	Lifesize		Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust	Depicts a soldier in a World War I uniform [2] [3]
	Ironbridge Coracles	Banks of the River Severn near the Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge 52°37′46″N2°29′31″W / 52.62939°N 2.49189°W / 52.62939; -2.49189	2021 (2021)	Luke Perry	Sculpture	Steel			Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust	An image of Tommy Rogers, grandfather to the Gorge's last coracle man, Eustace Rogers, who died in 2002. The design was based on a paper-cut image by Ironbridge resident Dave Fieldhouse. The sculpture is intended to be part of the Ironbridge Coracle Trail. [4]

Oswestry

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	The Borderland Farmer	Church Street (Red Square), Oswestry 52°51′29″N3°03′23″W / 52.858020°N 3.056359°W / 52.858020; -3.056359	1990 (1990)	Ivor Roberts-Jones	Statue	Bronze			Shropshire Council	Bronze statue of a shepherd with a ram, on a dome of rocks. [5]
	Wilfred Owen	Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′30″N3°03′27″W / 52.858281°N 3.05755°W / 52.858281; -3.05755	2018 (2018)	Tim Turner [6]	Statue	Bronze				[6]
	Red deer	Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′30″N3°03′30″W / 52.858211°N 3.058336°W / 52.858211; -3.058336	2013 (2013)		Statue					Part of the Oswestry Urban Sculpture Adventure Trail [7]
	Giraffe	Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′34″N3°03′28″W / 52.859394°N 3.057861°W / 52.859394; -3.057861	2013 (2013)		Statue					Part of the Oswestry Urban Sculpture Adventure Trail [7]
	Mr Mots, Miner	St Martins, Shropshire [8]	2018 (2018)	George Triggs	Statue	Bronze				[9] [8]

Shrewsbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	Charles Darwin	In front of Shrewsbury Library 52°42′37″N2°45′03″W / 52.710401°N 2.750787°W / 52.710401; -2.750787	1897 (1897)	Horace Montford	Seated statue	Bronze	2.6m high approx	Grade II listed	Shropshire Council	Shrewsbury Library building used to house Shrewsbury School, which Darwin attended as a boy. [10] [11]
	Charles Darwin	Outside Shrewsbury School 52°42′13″N2°45′44″W / 52.703550°N 2.762327°W / 52.703550; -2.762327	2000 (2000)		Statue	Bronze			Shrewsbury School
More images	The Quantum Leap	Mardol Quay Gardens, Shrewsbury 52°42′34″N2°45′26″W / 52.709452°N 2.757193°W / 52.709452; -2.757193	2009 (2009)	Pearce & Lal	Sculpture	Stone cast in cement	12 metres high and 17.5 metres long		Shropshire Council	Unveiled to mark Darwin's bicentenary [12]
More images	Darwin Gate	Mardol Head, Shrewsbury 52°42′29″N2°45′18″W / 52.707997°N 2.755088°W / 52.707997; -2.755088	2004 (2004)	Mark Renn & Mick Thacker	Sculpture	cast glass, copper, bronze, stainless steel and stone			Shropshire Council	The starting point of the Darwin Trail [13]
	Darwin Window	Darwin Shopping Centre, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury 52°42′32″N2°45′11″W / 52.708870°N 2.752919°W / 52.708870; -2.752919			Stained glass window				The Darwin Shopping Centre	It depicts an animal scene in a clear nod to Charles Darwin who was born in Shrewsbury [14]

The Quarry

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	Boer War Memorial	St Chad's Terrace, Shrewsbury 52°42′25″N2°45′33″W / 52.706848°N 2.759039°W / 52.706848; -2.759039	1902 (1902)	Caffin of Regent Street	Statue	Stone		Grade II listed [15]	Shropshire Council
More images	War Memorial	The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′27″N2°45′36″W / 52.707382°N 2.760005°W / 52.707382; -2.760005	1922 (1922)	George Hubbard and Son, Allan Wyon	Statue	Granite and bronze		Grade II listed [16]	Shropshire Council
More images	Copy of the Farnese Hercules	The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′24″N2°45′49″W / 52.706669°N 2.763520°W / 52.706669; -2.763520	Early 18th Century	John Nost	Statue	Lead	1.6m high approx	Grade II listed [17]	Shropshire Council	Originally at Condover Hall, It was moved to the entrance of The Quarry in 1851. It was later moved to its current position in 1881 [18]
More images	Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	Queen Mother Centenary Rose Garden, The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′29″N2°45′34″W / 52.707931°N 2.759492°W / 52.707931; -2.759492	2001 (2001)		Sculpture	Bronze			Shropshire Council

Town Centre

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	Clive of India	Shrewsbury Square, Shrewsbury 52°42′28″N2°45′14″W / 52.707785°N 2.754027°W / 52.707785; -2.754027	1860 (1860)	Carlo Marochetti	Statue	Bronze	2.75m high approx	Grade II listed [19]	Shropshire Council	[20]
	The Spread Eagle emblem	Barclays, 46 Castle Street, Shrewsbury 52°42′33″N2°45′07″W / 52.709155°N 2.752039°W / 52.709155; -2.752039			Sculpture				Barclays	[21]
More images	High Cross	Pride Hill junction with St Mary's Street, Shrewsbury 52°42′32″N2°45′09″W / 52.708941°N 2.752455°W / 52.708941; -2.752455	1952 (1952)		High cross	fine white limestone	5.5m high overall, cross 1.21m high approx		Shropshire Council	On the site of earlier crosses. Was the site of execution [22] Present cross was erected to commemorate the 400 years of Shrewsbury School in the town in 1952.
More images	The Lion	The Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury 52°42′23″N2°45′06″W / 52.706434°N 2.751675°W / 52.706434; -2.751675	1777 (1777)	John Nelson	Lion sculpture	Stone		Grade I listed [23]	The Lion Hotel

English Bridge Gardens

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	Viscount Hill	Shrewsbury Sixth Form College - English Bridge Gardens, Shrewsbury 52°42′27″N2°44′50″W / 52.707628°N 2.747131°W / 52.707628; -2.747131	1876 (1876)	Matthew Noble	Statue	White marble	2m high approx	Grade II listed [24]	Shropshire Council	Unveiled in English Bridge Gardens in 1907. [25]

Cherry Orchard

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	Lord Hill's Column	Column Roundabout, Shrewsbury 52°42′15″N2°43′54″W / 52.704154°N 2.731780°W / 52.704154; -2.731780	1816 (1816)	Thomas Harrison, Edward Haycock, John Carline, Jnr and Joseph Panzetta	Statue on top of a column	Coade stone and Grinhill sandstone	5.2m high (statue), 4.57m diameter at pedestal, 68cm thick; 3.2m diameter at capital, 48cm thick (column)	Grade II* listed [26]	Shropshire Council	Monument to Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill [27]
	Symmetry: memorial to Wilfred Owen	Shrewsbury Abbey 52°42′28″N2°44′33″W / 52.707877°N 2.742475°W / 52.707877; -2.742475	1994 (1994)	Paul de Monchaux	Sculpture	Granite and sandstone				Commissioned by the Wilfred Owen Association, to mark the centenary of his birth [28]

Telford

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
More images	Trihedral Spire	Naird Roundabout, Telford 52°40′14″N2°24′54″W / 52.67068°N 2.41502°W / 52.67068; -2.41502	1984 (1984)		Roundabout obelisk	Concrete	22 metre high		Telford and Wrekin Council	[29]

Ludlow

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	Doves of Peace	Market Square, Ludlow.	2000	Walenty Pytel		Bronze	5M			Doves of Peace war memorial 5 metre bronze sculpture. Commissioned by the Ludlow branch of the Royal British Legion. Unveiled by Sir Thomas Raymond Dunne, KG, KCVO, JP. The original model was sold in 2011 at Brightwells Auction by Walenty.

References

1. "War Memorials Register: Bridgnorth". Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 24 August 2020.
2. "War Memorial". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
3. "War Memorials Register: Ironbridge WW1 and WW2". Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 24 August 2020.
4. Dominic Robertson (20 April 2021). "Ironbridge coracle men remembered as sculpture unveiled". Shropshire Star . Retrieved 4 September 2023.
5. "The Borderland Farmer". www.vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
6. "Wilfred Owen statue unveiled in Oswestry". BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
7. "Oswestry Urban Safari Adventure Trail" . Retrieved 11 November 2018.
8. "Hundreds turn out for unveiling of coal miner statue". itv.com. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
9. Austin, Sue (17 November 2018). "Memorial to miners to be unveiled". The Shropshire Star. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
10. "Statue of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
11. Historic England. "Statue of Charles Darwin in Front of Library (Grade II) (1246556)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 March 2016.
12. "Quantum Leap". www.discoverdarwin.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
13. "The DarwIn Shrewsbury Trail". www.originalshrewsbury.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
14. "Darwin Window". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
15. Historic England. "Boer War Memorial (Grade II) (1059006)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 March 2016.
16. Historic England. "War Memorial (Grade II) (1270484)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 March 2016.
17. Historic England. "Statue of the Farnese Hercules (Grade II) (1270558)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 10 March 2016.
18. "Copy of the Farnese Hercules". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
19. Historic England. "Statue of Lord Clive (Grade II) (1254926)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 7 March 2016.
20. "Statue of Robert Clive, First Baron of India (1725-1774)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
21. "Barclays Eagle". Barclays. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
22. "High Cross (aka Butter Cross)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
23. Historic England. "The Lion Hotel (Grade I) (1255164)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 8 March 2016.
24. Historic England. "Statue of Viscount Hill in English Bridge Gardens (Grade II) (1246397)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 7 March 2016.
25. "Statue of Viscount Hill". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
26. Historic England. "Lord Hill's Column (Grade II*) (1271374)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2017.
27. "Monument to Viscount Rowland Hill (1772-1842)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
28. "Symmetry (Memorial to Wilfred Owen)" Art UK. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
29. Toby Neal (23 June 2018). "The invisible art which made Telford European champions". Shropshire Star . Retrieved 3 September 2023.