This is a list of public art in St James's , a district in the City of Westminster, London.
St James's lies to the north of St James's Park, a former hunting ground attached to St James's Palace. [1] The Mall, marking the northern boundary of the park, was transformed into a major thoroughfare in the 1900s by Aston Webb as part of the national memorial to Queen Victoria. [2] Its focal point looking west is the Victoria Memorial designed by Thomas Brock, one of several memorials set along its axis from the early 20th century onwards. To the east The Mall joins John Nash's processional route (which originally connected Carlton House to Regent's Park) at Carlton House Terrace. [3] The part of this route within St James's includes Waterloo Place, described as "one of the more dramatic pieces of town planning in London" and lined with statues and memorials mainly of a military character. [4] Elsewhere in the district, the Economist Plaza hosted changing displays of contemporary sculpture in the early 21st century; this programme came to an end in 2010 after running for over ten years. [5]
Map of public art in St James's
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Statue of William III | St James's Square 51°30′26″N0°08′07″W / 51.507221°N 0.135311°W | 1807 | John Bacon (Jr) | — | Equestrian statue | Grade I | Very likely to a design of the sculptor's father John Bacon (Sr), dating to 1794. The design is probably inspired by John Michael Rysbrack's equestrian statue of William III in Queen Square, Bristol. [6] |
More images | Pallas Athene | Athenaeum Club, Waterloo Place | 1829 | Edward Hodges Baily | Decimus Burton | Statue | Grade I | A gilt copy of the Athena of Velletri. [7] The spear is a later addition. [8] |
More images | Frieze | Athenaeum Club, Waterloo Place | 1829 | John Henning (Sr) and John Henning (Jr) | Decimus Burton | Frieze | Grade I | A copy of the Parthenon Frieze. [8] The background was painted blue, "Wedgwood-fashion", in 1856. [7] |
More images | Duke of York Column Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Waterloo Place 51°30′23″N0°07′54″W / 51.506331°N 0.131761°W | 1829–1834 | Richard Westmacott | Benjamin Dean Wyatt | Statue on column | Grade I | The Duke, in his Garter robes, stands atop an unfluted Doric column. Westmacott intended for the statue to face north towards Regent Street, but William IV, on the Duke of Wellington's advice, requested that it face the Horse Guards to the south. The column was completed in 1832 and the statue raised on 3 April 1834. [9] |
More images | Statue of George III | Cockspur Street, facing down Pall Mall 51°30′28″N0°07′50″W / 51.5078°N 0.1305°W | 1836 | c.Matthew Cotes Wyatt | — | Equestrian statue | Grade II | Unveiled 3 August 1836 by the Duke of Cumberland. After the King's death in 1820 Wyatt designed an ambitious multi-figure monument, but there were too few subscriptions for the project to go ahead. Fund-raising recommenced in 1831. The statue came to be nicknamed "the Pigtail and Pump-head". [10] |
More images | Buckingham Palace Gates | Forecourt of Buckingham Palace 51°30′05″N0°08′29″W / 51.5015°N 0.1413°W | 1850–1851 (north); 1904–1908 (south); 1911 (centre) | John Thomas , W. S. Frith , Walter Gilbert and Louis Weingartner | Decimus Burton and Aston Webb | Gates and piers with sculptural decoration | Grade I | Burton's gates were installed after the removal of Marble Arch, formerly the ceremonial entrance to the palace. Webb commissioned the Bromsgrove Guild to produce replicas with minor variations, which were erected on the southern side. The central gates were added at the request of George V. [11] |
More images | The Guards Crimean War Memorial | Waterloo Place 51°30′27″N0°07′58″W / 51.5074°N 0.1327°W | 1858–1862 | John Bell | — | Memorial with sculpture | Grade II | The figures at the base of the plinth are of a Grenadier, a Fusilier and a Coldstream Guard; the crowning figure represents Honour. They are cast in bronze from cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol. [12] |
More images | The Boy | St James's Park 51°30′04″N0°08′03″W / 51.5012°N 0.1341°W | 1863 | Charles Henry Mabeyfor Robert Jackson & Son | — | Drinking fountain with sculpture | Grade II | A marble figure of a boy naked to the waist, set on a granite plinth with marble panels. The badly worn and much vandalised sculpture was repaired in 1993 and unveiled by Douglas Hurd. [13] |
More images | Statue of John Franklin | Waterloo Place 51°30′23″N0°07′56″W / 51.5064°N 0.1322°W | 1866 | Matthew Noble | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 15 November 1866. Franklin is depicted in the act of announcing the discovery of the Northwest Passage to his officers and crew. At the back of the pedestal is a map of the Arctic, showing the positions of the boats and crews at the moment of Franklin's burial. [14] |
More images | Statue of Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea | Waterloo Place 51°30′26″N0°07′58″W / 51.5073°N 0.1327°W | 1867 | John Henry Foley | Thomas Henry Wyatt | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 1 June 1867 in Pall Mall. Moved to the courtyard of the War Office, Whitehall, in 1906. In 1915 it was moved to Waterloo Place where it acts as a pendant to Florence Nightingale's statue; the latter was given a matching plinth. [15] |
More images | Statue of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde | Waterloo Place 51°30′24″N0°07′54″W / 51.5067°N 0.1317°W | 1867 | Carlo Marochetti | — | Statue and other sculpture | Grade II | The statue stands on a cylindrical granite pedestal; on a lower base projecting from this is a group of Victory seated on a lion. [16] Originally intended for Horse Guards Parade, but when the pedestal was installed there the Admiralty complained that it was blocking their entrance, and the site was changed. [17] |
More images | Statue of John Fox Burgoyne | Waterloo Place 51°30′23″N0°07′56″W / 51.5065°N 0.1323°W | 1877 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | — | Statue | Grade II | Originally intended to stand outside the War Office in Whitehall. Boehm incorporated a tiny group of Saint George and the Dragon by his pupil Alfred Gilbert at the end of Burgoyne's baton. [18] |
More images | Statue of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence | Waterloo Place 51°30′24″N0°07′54″W / 51.5066°N 0.1316°W | 1885 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | — | Statue | Grade II | A replacement for Boehm's statue of 1882, which was heavily criticised for its realism. This was presented to Lahore, where it proved equally controversial; in 1962 it was brought to Derry and erected in front of Foyle College, Lawrence's old school. [19] |
Laura Lyttelton Memorial Drinking Fountain | Piccadilly, against churchyard wall of St James's Church | after 1886 | ? | ? | Drinking fountain | Inscribed IN MEMORIAM/ LAURA LYTTELTON/ DIED/ EASTER DAY 1886 [20] | ||
Rosetta Sotheran Memorial Drinking Fountain | Piccadilly, against churchyard wall of St James's Church | after 1892 | ? | ? | Drinking fountain | Inscribed IN MEMORIAM/ ROSETTA SOTHERAN/ DIED/ JULY 5TH 1892 [21] | ||
Putti | NatWest bank, 207–209 Piccadilly | 1892–1894 | c.F. W. Pomeroy | Alfred Waterhouse | Relief | Grade II | [22] | |
More images | Statue of Queen Victoria | Forecourt of 16 Carlton House Terrace 51°30′24″N0°07′50″W / 51.506590°N 0.130659°W | 1898–1902 | c.Thomas Brock | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 5 February 1902 by Lord Salisbury in the Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly; sold in 1940. Moved to the present site in 1971, when this building was being used as an annexe of the National Portrait Gallery. [23] |
More images | Victoria Memorial Queen Victoria | Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens, The Mall 51°30′07″N0°08′26″W / 51.501855°N 0.140619°W | 1901–1924 | Thomas Brock | — | Memorial with sculpture | Grade I | Unveiled 16 May 1911 by George V. Brock was adamant that he, and not Aston Webb, was responsible for the architectural design of the memorial. Despite never having travelled to France, he produced a work that was convincingly abreast with belle époque fashion. [24] |
More images | Royal Marines Memorial | The Mall 51°30′24″N0°07′46″W / 51.5066°N 0.1295°W | 1903 | Adrian Jones | Thomas Graham Jackson | Memorial with sculpture | Grade II | Unveiled 25 April 1903 by the Prince of Wales (the future George V), on a site now occupied by the Admiralty Citadel. Removed in 1940 and reinstalled on the Mall in 1948. [25] |
Australia Gate | Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens 51°30′04″N0°08′24″W / 51.501153°N 0.139915°W | 1905–1908 | Francis Derwent Wood | Aston Webb | Piers with sculptural decoration | Grade I | The nude boys on the two piers hold the 1908 coat of arms of Australia; the western boy is accompanied by a kangaroo and the eastern by a Merino ram. [26] | |
More images | Canada Gate | Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens 51°30′09″N0°08′29″W / 51.5025°N 0.1414°W | 1905–1908 | Henry Alfred Pegram | Aston Webb | Gates and piers with sculptural decoration | Grade I | The nude boys on the outermost piers hold the 1868 arms of Canada and have attributes referring to fishing and agriculture. The gates were produced by the Bromsgrove Guild. [27] |
South Africa Gate | Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens 51°30′08″N0°08′22″W / 51.502295°N 0.139537°W | 1905–1908 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | Piers with sculptural decoration | Grade I | The nude boy on the northern pier, representing South Africa, holds a shield with the arms of the Cape Colony; that on the southern, representing West Africa, holds a blank shield. [27] | |
Justice | 162–165 Piccadilly | 1907–1909 | Hibbert Charles Binney | Runtz & Ford | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [28] | |
More images | Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial | The Mall 51°30′19″N0°07′52″W / 51.5054°N 0.1310°W | 1910 | William Robert Colton | Aston Webb | Memorial with sculpture | Grade II | Unveiled 20 July 1910 by the Duke of Connaught. Colton was given the commission after Thomas Brock turned it down due to the pressure of other commitments. Few were pleased with the resulting memorial. [29] |
Justice, Progress and Industry and the arms of British Columbia | 11 Charles II Street (formerly British Columbia House), Regent Street St James's façade | 1914 | c.F. W. Pomeroy | Alfred Burr | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [30] | |
More images | Statue of James Cook | The Mall 51°30′23″N0°07′45″W / 51.5063°N 0.1292°W | 1914 | Thomas Brock | probably Aston Webb | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 7 July 1914 by the Duke of Connaught. The idea for the memorial was first proposed by the former Prime Minister of New South Wales, who wrote to The Times complaining of the lack of a statue to Captain Cook in London. [31] |
More images | Statue of Florence Nightingale | Waterloo Place 51°30′26″N0°07′57″W / 51.5073°N 0.1326°W | 1915 | Arthur George Walker | Thomas Henry Wyatt | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 24 February 1915. The last of a group of three memorials with a Crimean theme on Waterloo Place. The plinth is a copy of that of the statue of Lord Herbert, and is decorated with bronze reliefs of scenes from Nightingale's life. [32] |
More images | Statue of Robert Falcon Scott | Waterloo Place 51°30′25″N0°07′55″W / 51.5069°N 0.1319°W | 1915 | Kathleen Scott | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 5 November 1915 by Arthur Balfour. The sculptor was Captain Scott's widow; she produced a marble replica for Christchurch, New Zealand. [33] |
More images | Statue of Edward VII | Waterloo Place 51°30′24″N0°07′56″W / 51.5067°N 0.1321°W | 1921 | Bertram Mackennal | Edwin Lutyens | Equestrian statue | Grade II | Unveiled 20 July 1921 by George V. Edward VII is depicted in Field Marshal's uniform. Stands on the site previously occupied by the equestrian statue of Lord Napier now at Queen's Gate, Kensington. [34] |
Army and Navy Club War Memorial | Outside the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall 51°30′22″N0°08′08″W / 51.506126°N 0.135618°W | 1923–1926 | Basil Gotto | — | Statue | — | Originally stood in the Victorian clubhouse, which was demolished around 1962. The memorial went into storage at the Ministry of Defence. In 2001 it was returned to the club and displayed in a glass case outside its 1960s building. [35] | |
Mary of Nazareth | Churchyard of St James's, Piccadilly 51°30′31″N0°08′13″W / 51.508516°N 0.136970°W | 1925 | c.Charles Wheeler | — | Statue | — | The sculpture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1925, was offered to St James's Church by Wheeler's family after his death. It was erected on this site in 1975. [36] | |
More images | Peace | Churchyard of St James's, Piccadilly 51°30′30″N0°08′14″W / 51.508353°N 0.137304°W | 1926 | c.Alfred Frank Hardiman | — | Statue | — | As Hardiman died in 1949 leaving his Southwood Memorial for the churchyard unfinished, the sculptor's widow gave this earlier work to St James's as a substitute and as a memorial to her husband. [37] |
More images | Queen Alexandra Memorial Alexandra of Denmark | Marlborough Road 51°30′17″N0°08′12″W / 51.5047°N 0.1368°W | 1926–1932 | Alfred Gilbert | — | Memorial with sculpture | Grade I | Unveiled 8 June 1932 by George V. Despite Gilbert's earlier disgrace with the royal family after failing to complete the Duke of Clarence's tomb, the Queen was said to have expressed a wish that he sculpt her memorial should he outlive her. Gilbert, aged 78, was knighted the day after its unveiling. [38] |
Statue of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | Carlton House Terrace 51°30′22″N0°08′00″W / 51.5060°N 0.1333°W | 1930 | Bertram Mackennal | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 20 March 1931 by Stanley Baldwin. The statue stands opposite the viceroy's former house. Mackennal had previously sculpted Curzon's tomb effigy in All Saints Church, Kedleston. [39] | |
More images | Cries of London | Buchanan House, 3 St James's Square | c. 1933–34 | Newbury Abbot Trent | Alfred and David Ospalak | Reliefs | — | [40] |
Gates | St James's, Piccadilly | 1937 | William Bainbridge Reynolds | Reginald Blomfield (destroyed surround) | Gates | Originally with an architectural setting by Blomfield, these gates were installed to mark the coronation of George VI. They replaced the old entrance archway to St James's churchyard. [41] Blomfield's work was destroyed in 1940 and the gates are now set into post-war railings. [42] | ||
More images | Memorial to Julius Salter Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood | Churchyard of St James's, Piccadilly 51°30′31″N0°08′14″W / 51.5086°N 0.1371°W | 1948 | Alfred Frank Hardiman | Albert Richardson | Memorial with sculpture | Grade II | At the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance financed by Southwood, a newspaper magnate. Putti on dolphins and playing musical instruments refer to his charitable work for the children's hospital at Great Ormond Street. [43] |
Sundial | Pickering Place | before 1953 | ? | — | Armillary sphere | — | [44] | |
More images | Statue of George VI | King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Carlton House Terrace 51°30′19″N0°08′02″W / 51.505185°N 0.133764°W | 1955 | William McMillan | Louis de Soissons (1955) Donald Insall (2008) | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 21 October 1955 by Elizabeth II. The statue was moved forward from its original setting in 2008 to form part of a joint memorial with the King's wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother). [45] |
More images | Clock | Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly | 1964 | Eric Aumonier | Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie (1926–1929) | Automated clock | [46] | |
Mural | The Cavendish Hotel, Duke Street | 1966 | William Mitchell | Maurice Hanna | Mural | — | [47] [48] | |
More images | Queen Mary Memorial Mary of Teck | Junction of The Mall and Marlborough Road 51°30′17″N0°08′08″W / 51.504645°N 0.135532°W | 1967 | William Reid Dick | Alan Reynolds Stone(lettering) | Plaque with relief sculpture | — | Unveiled 7 June 1967. The profile portrait is a bronze replica of the memorial to Queen Mary at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Sandringham, Norfolk. [49] |
More images | Memorial to Yvonne Fletcher | St James's Square 51°30′28″N0°08′06″W / 51.507681°N 0.135057°W | 1985 | George Cook and Rosemary Slinn | — | Stele | — | Unveiled 1 February 1985 by Margaret Thatcher. The first memorial to be erected by the Police Memorial Trust, founded in response to Fletcher's shooting during a siege of the Libyan embassy on the Square. [50] [51] |
Moonlight Ramble | Haymarket House, 27 Haymarket | 1992 | Jane Ackroyd | Stone, Toms & Partners (1939–1955) | Architectural sculpture | — | A design suggestive of an abstracted mask, inspired by 18th-century masked balls. The first such ball in England was held at the Haymarket Opera House. [52] [53] | |
More images | Statue of Charles de Gaulle | Carlton Gardens 51°30′20″N0°08′03″W / 51.505650°N 0.134200°W | 1993 | Angela Conner | Bernrad Wiehahn | Statue | — | Unveiled 23 June 1993 by the Queen Mother. De Gaulle (who requested that no statues be raised to him) gestures with his left hand towards 4 Carlton Gardens, the headquarters of the Free French from 1940. [39] |
Eclipse | Economist Plaza 51°30′25″N0°08′21″W / 51.507041°N 0.139181°W | 1996 | Angela Conner | — | Fountain with sculpture | — | The memorial fountain consists of two moving discs mounted on a wall, which slowly fill up with water. In 2008 Conner voiced her displeasure with the Economist's neglect of the work's upkeep. [54] | |
Two Wave Form | Outside Anglo American Head Office, 20 Carlton House Terrace 51°30′25″N0°07′49″W / 51.506962°N 0.130394°W | 1999 | John Sydney Carter | — | Sculpture | — | Commissioned by Westminster City Council. [55] | |
States of Mind | Carlton House Terrace | 1999 | David John Kent | Relief | ||||
Stag | St James's Square 51°30′24″N0°08′08″W / 51.506656°N 0.135477°W | 2001 | Marcus Cornish | — | Statue | — | Commissioned by the developer Patrick Despard for Cleveland House, St James's Square. As the sculpture did not find favour with the building's occupants, it was presented to the trustees of the square. [56] | |
More images | Statue of Beau Brummell | Jermyn Street 51°30′28″N0°08′20″W / 51.507700°N 0.138900°W | 2002 | Irena Sedlecká | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 5 November 2002 by Princess Michael of Kent. Sedlecká originally conceived the sculpture for the Bond Street site now occupied by Lawrence Holofcener's Allies. [57] |
More images | National Police Memorial | The Mall, in front of the Admiralty Citadel 51°30′21″N0°07′48″W / 51.505742°N 0.130064°W | 2005 | Per Arnoldi | Foster and Partners | Memorial with stele | — | Unveiled 26 April 2005 by Elizabeth II. The memorial incorporates a ventilation shaft for the London Underground, faced with black granite and containing a Roll of Honour. [58] |
More images | Statue of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, The Mall 51°30′18″N0°08′01″W / 51.505128°N 0.133716°W | 2009 | Philip Jackson (statue) Paul Day (reliefs) | Donald Buttress , Donald Insall | Memorial with statue and relief sculpture | — | Unveiled 24 February 2009 by Elizabeth II. Part of a joint memorial to the Queen Mother and her husband George VI, which incorporates William McMillan's 1955 statue of the latter. [59] A second cast of Jackson's statue was erected in Poundbury, Dorset, in 2016. [60] |
More images | Statue of Keith Park | Waterloo Place 51°30′24″N0°07′57″W / 51.506696°N 0.132469°W | 2010 | Les Johnson | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 15 September 2010, on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Previously a larger, fibreglass version of the statue was displayed on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square for six months. It is now at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon. [61] |
Cornice | One Eagle Place (Piccadilly) | 2013 | Richard Deacon | Eric Parry Architects | Architectural sculpture | — | Unveiled 6 March 2013. [62] | |
Bust of Simon Milton | One Eagle Place (Corner of Piccadilly and Eagle Place) | 2013 | Alan Micklethwaite | Architectural sculpture | Unveiled by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London; Milton was a Deputy Mayor before his death in 2011 aged 49. [63] | |||
Architectural sculpture | One Eagle Place (Corner of Eagle Place and Jermyn Street) | 2013 | Stephen Cox | Eric Parry Architects | Architectural sculpture | — | Unveiled 13 June 2013. [62] | |
Relief: Figure Emerging and Inscribed Rail to E.L. Edwin Lutyens | Apple Tree Yard (rear of 8 St James's Square) | 2014–15 | Stephen Cox | Eric Parry | Relief and inscription | — | [64] [65] | |
Shirt, Tie, Pipe and Shoe | St James's Market | 2016 | Studio Swine | Sculptural benches | — | [66] | ||
The Safe Deposite | St James's Market | 2016 | Studio Weave | Pavilion | — | [66] | ||
Encaustic tile panels | St James's Market | 2016 | David Thorpe | Encaustic tile panels | — | [66] | ||
Mother and Child Victims of sexual violence | St James's Square | 2019 | Rebecca Hawkins | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 11 June 2019 at Church House, Westminster. [67] | |
Relief of John Nash | Nash Summer House, St James's Square | ? | After Joseph Anton Couriguer | John Nash | Relief | Grade II | [68] | |
Relief of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Pickering Place | ? | ? | — | Relief | — | [69] |
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