This is a list of public artworks in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone in London, now a part of the City of Westminster.
Fitzrovia, so named since the 1930s when it became a haunt for bohemians, [1] is situated to the north of Soho and east of Marylebone. Its eastern part is in the London Borough of Camden. [2]
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 | Ariel and Prospero | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | [3] | |||
Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | [4] | ||||
Ariel Learns Celestial Music | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | [5] | ||||
Ariel Piping to the Children | Broadcasting House, Langham Place | 1931 | Eric Gill | [6] | ||||
Bust of John Nash | All Souls Church, Langham Place | 1956 | Cecil Thomas after William Behnes | [7] | ||||
Winged Figure | Outside John Lewis department store, Oxford Street | 1963 | Barbara Hepworth | |||||
Untitled | Forecourt of the University of Westminster's Cavendish Campus, New Cavendish Street 51°31′15″N0°08′23″W / 51.5207°N 0.1397°W | 2001–2004 | Ben Joiner | Rock Townsend | Sculptures | — | Seven sculptures of varying degrees of abstraction, two of which are recognisable as flasks and one other as a funnel. They relate to the activities taking place inside the building behind, which houses the university's department of biosciences. [8] | |
World | Broadcasting House, Portland Place 51°31′07″N0°08′36″W / 51.5185°N 0.1434°W | 2002–2013 | Mark Pimlott | MJP Architects | Work set into pavement | — | [9] [10] | |
Breathing | Egton Wing, Broadcasting House, Langham Street | 2008 | Jaume Plensa | — | [11] | |||
If Graffiti Changed Anything | Clipstone Street 51°31′17″N0°08′24″W / 51.5214°N 0.1401°W | 2011 | Banksy | — | Mural | — | The phrase is based on a quotation from the anarchist Emma Goldman: "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal". [12] In the years since its creation the work has been covered by a Perspex sheet and has attracted other graffiti. [13] |
Lisson Grove, a residential area which urbanised as London expanded northwards in the 19th century, was designated a conservation area in 1990. [14]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Sculpture | Ark King Solomon Academy (formerly the Rutherford School), Penfold Street 51°31′17″N0°10′10″W / 51.5215°N 0.1695°W | 1960 | Leonard Manasseh | Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker | Sculpture | Grade II | [15] | |
Echo | Rossmore Road 51°31′32″N0°09′46″W / 51.5255°N 0.1627°W | 2004 | Charles Hadcock | — | Sculpture | — | [16] |
Marylebone is an inner-city area roughly defined as being bounded by Oxford Street to the south, Marylebone Road to the north, Edgware Road to the west and Great Portland Street to the east. Portland Place, part of the grand route from Regent's Park to St James's planned by John Nash (who is commemorated by a bust outside All Souls, Langham Place), has historically been an attractive place for the erection of memorials because of its width. [17]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Statue of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | Park Crescent 51°31′23″N0°08′46″W / 51.5230°N 0.1462°W | 1824 | Sebastian Gahagan | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 21 February 1824. The Duke, in robes and the collar of the Garter, stands with his right arm rested on two books, which lie on top of a truncated column. Among the symbols which appear on the column shaft is the Masonic all-seeing eye. [18] |
More images | Statue of Lord George Bentinck | Cavendish Square 51°30′58″N0°08′42″W / 51.5162°N 0.1449°W | 1851 | Thomas Campbell | — | Statue | Grade II | Erected 4 November 1851. Bentinck is depicted standing, in a contemporary frock coat. The pedestal appears to have been changed twice since the original installation, the first having been insufficiently lofty and the second excessively so. [19] |
Memorial to Charles Wesley | Garden of Rest (St Mary-le-Bone Old Churchyard) 51°31′19″N0°09′06″W / 51.5220°N 0.1517°W | 1858 | ? | — | Obelisk | — | Stands close to the site where Wesley was buried in 1788. [20] | |
More images | William Pitt Byrne Memorial Fountain | Bryanston Square 51°31′00″N0°09′38″W / 51.5167°N 0.1605°W | 1862 | — | Julia Clara Byrne | Drinking fountain | Grade II | The fountain with plaque and urn finial stands upon a heap of differently coloured stones. [21] [22] |
More images | Hamilton Memorial Drinking Fountain Sir James Hamilton, 2nd Baronet [23] | Portman Square 51°30′57″N0°09′17″W / 51.5159°N 0.1548°W | 1878 | ? | — | Drinking fountain | Grade II | Donated by Hamilton's widow through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. [24] |
More images | Street Orderly Boy | Paddington Street Gardens 51°31′14″N0°09′14″W / 51.5205°N 0.1539°W | 1881 | c.Donato Barcaglia | — | Statue | — | Possibly the work Barcaglia exhibited in 1881 under the title Spazzacamino ("Chimney Sweep"). Donated to Marylebone council in 1943, when it was given its present title. Orderly boys were employed by the parish councils of London to clean the streets, but were probably unheard of in Italy. [25] |
Grammar, Astronomy, Justice, Philosophy, Homer and Fame | 37 Harley Street | 1897–1899 | Frederick E. E. Schenck | Arthur Beresford Pite | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [26] | |
Christ as the Good Shepherd | Church Institute & Club, 60 Paddington Street | 1898–1900 | c.John Daymond III or John Dudley Daymond | Thomas Harris | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [27] | |
Wallace fountain | Forecourt of the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square 51°31′02″N0°09′10″W / 51.5173°N 0.1528°W | 1904 (cast of a design of 1872) | Charles-Auguste Lebourg | — | Drinking fountain | Grade II* | An example of the "large model" of drinking fountain donated by Wallace to the city of Paris from 1872. This cast was erected in Shoreditch in 1904, the gift of a local councillor. Re-erected on this site after restoration in 1960. [28] | |
More images | Memorial to Quintin Hogg | Portland Place 51°31′08″N0°08′40″W / 51.5189°N 0.1444°W | 1906 | George Frampton | — | Sculptural group | Grade II | Unveiled 24 November 1906 on a site immediately opposite the Royal Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street; relocated in 1933. [29] It also commemorates Hogg's wife Alice and students of the Polytechnic killed in both World Wars. [30] |
More images | Marylebone War Memorial | Church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street 51°30′51″N0°09′28″W / 51.5143°N 0.1579°W | 1920 | c.? | Walter Tapper | Calvary | Grade II | No documentation for this sculpture appears to have survived. [31] |
More images | Metropolitan Railway War Memorial | Baker Street tube station, near Platform 5 (eastbound) 51°31′24″N0°09′25″W / 51.5232°N 0.1569°W | 1920 | ? | Charles Walter Clark | Relief | Grade II* | Unveiled 11 November 1920. A large wall tablet flanked by Ionic columns and surmounted by a relief of a lion crushing a serpent. [32] |
More images | Statue of George Stuart White | Portland Place 51°31′15″N0°08′43″W / 51.5208°N 0.1453°W | 1922 | John Tweed | — | Equestrian statue | Grade II | Unveiled 19 December 1922. The statue was the focus of the Boer War Veterans Association's annual commemoration of the Relief of Ladysmith; a wreath was laid at its foot on 28 February every year until 1970. [33] |
More images | Memorial to Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Portland Place 51°31′21″N0°08′46″W / 51.5225°N 0.1460°W | 1922 | Thomas Brock ; completed by Frank Arnold Wright | — | Memorial with bust and other sculpture | Grade II | Unveiled 13 March 1924. Only the colossal bust of Lister was completed by Brock, who died in 1922. The group of Humanity with a nude male youth was completed by Wright, a studio assistant. [34] |
Science, Music and Art | 17 Cavendish Square (Wigmore Street elevation) | c. 1923–1924 | Gilbert Bayes | T. P. Bennett & Hossack | Reliefs | Grade II | [27] | |
Orchestra of Child Musicians | 17 Cavendish Square (Wigmore Street elevation) | 1923–1924 | c.Gilbert Bayes | T. P. Bennett & Hossack | Relief | Grade II | [27] | |
More images | Art | Selfridges, Oxford Street | 1929 | William Reid Dick | John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [35] |
More images | Science | Selfridges, Oxford Street | 1929 | William Reid Dick | John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [35] |
More images | The Queen of Time | Selfridges, Oxford Street | 1930 | Gilbert Bayes | John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | [35] |
More images | Madonna and Child | Dean's Mews, Cavendish Square | 1952 | Jacob Epstein | Louis Osman | Architectural sculpture | [36] | |
Charles Dickens Panel | Ferguson House, Marylebone Road | 1960 | Estcourt James (Jim) Clack | Clifford Culpin | Relief | — | [37] | |
More images | Bust of John F. Kennedy | 1 Park Crescent 51°31′26″N0°08′41″W / 51.5239°N 0.1447°W | 1965 | Jacques Lipchitz | — | Bust | — | Unveiled 15 May 1965 by Robert F. Kennedy. The fruit of a fundraising campaign by The Sunday Telegraph . Lipchitz struggled with the commission as Kennedy was not alive to take sittings. Displeased with the finished work, he was absent at the unveiling. [38] |
Heron | Heron Place, George Street | 1967 | ? | Spratley & Partners (post-1960s refurbishment) | Architectural sculpture | — | Commissioned by Heron International. [39] [40] | |
Tile motif | Oxford Circus tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1967–1969 | c.Hans Unger | — | Tile motif | — | The motif depicts the convergence of the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines within a circle representing Oxford Circus. [41] The platform was damaged in a fire in 1984. [42] | |
Madame Tussaud | Madame Tussauds, Marylebone Road | 1969 | Arthur Pollen | Relief | — | A portrait medallion in fibreglass. [43] | ||
Sherlock Holmes murals | Baker Street tube station platforms | 1979 | Robin Jacques | — | Murals | Grade II* | Murals depicting scenes from seven of Conan Doyle's stories. [44] | |
More images | Sherlock Holmes motifs | Baker Street tube station platforms | 1983 | c.Michael Douglas and Pamela Moreton | — | Tile motifs and enamel panels | Grade II* | The scheme consists of motifs of the detective's head in profile and murals depicting scenes from his adventures. [45] The designs were by Douglas, the over-glaze printing by Moreton. [46] |
Mother and Child | Outside the Portland Hospital for Women and Children, Great Portland Street 51°31′22″N0°08′39″W / 51.5229°N 0.1441°W | 1983 | David Norris | — | Sculpture | — | A glass surround and back-lights were added during improvements to the hospital's forecourt in 2010. [47] | |
Mosaics and enamel panels | Oxford Circus tube station, Central and Bakerloo line platforms | 1983; 1985 | Nicholas Munro | — | Mosaics and enamel panels | — | Munro, a student at the Royal College of Art, based the designs on his (not entirely favourable) impressions of the station. The designs on the Central line platforms refer to the game of Snakes and Ladders and those on the Bakerloo line depict commuters in a maze. [42] | |
Arch motifs | Marble Arch tube station platforms | 1985 | Annabel Grey | — | Enamel panels | — | A series of sixteen colourful triumphal arch designs enamelled onto steel sheets. Each arch is made of nine separate steel sheets, which had to be fired about ten times at an enamel sign factory in Sydenham. [48] | |
More images | The Window Cleaner | Capital House, Chapel Street 51°31′10″N0°10′03″W / 51.5195°N 0.1674°W | 1990 | Allan Sly | — | Statue | — | 30 November 1990. Sly's brief was "for a figure expressing a wry sense of humour"; thus the window cleaner looks up at the 15 or so storeys of Capital House, for which his small ladder will be of little use. [49] |
Cristos | St Christopher's Place 51°30′54″N0°09′00″W / 51.5151°N 0.1500°W | 1993 | William Pye | — | Fountain with sculpture | — | Unveiled 13 July 1993. The piece refers obliquely to the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child across a river; here the water, in the sculptor's words, "becomes the bridge itself", coursing down the arches of an open bronze structure into four small basins at the bottom and thence into grills in the pavement. [50] | |
More images | Memorial to Raoul Wallenberg | Great Cumberland Place 51°30′54″N0°09′35″W / 51.5150°N 0.1596°W | 1997 | Philip Jackson | — | Statue with screen | — | Unveiled 26 February 1997 by Elizabeth II. Wallenberg stands in front of a screen formed from stacked passports; his head is turned towards the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Another cast of the memorial is in Buenos Aires. [51] |
Girl | The Plaza, 116–132 Oxford Street | 1997 | Michael Rizzello | Architectural sculpture | [52] | |||
More images | Statue of Sherlock Holmes | Marylebone Road, outside Baker Street tube station 51°31′21″N0°09′24″W / 51.5225°N 0.1566°W | 1999 | John Doubleday | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 23 September 1999. No site was available on Baker Street itself, but the Abbey National building society, whose head office was on the putative site of No. 221B, agreed to fund the statue. [53] |
More images | Statue of Władysław Sikorski | Outside the Polish Embassy, Portland Place 51°31′16″N0°08′43″W / 51.5211°N 0.1454°W | 2000 | Faith Winter | Michael Goss | Statue | — | Unveiled 24 September 2003 by the Duke of Kent. Tomasz Zamoyski, a prominent Polish expatriate, first conceived the idea for the statue to complement the existing statues of Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle in London. The British and Polish governments each gave £5,000 towards the cost. [54] |
Tyburn, Lethewards has sunk | Cramer Street 51°31′09″N0°09′08″W / 51.5193°N 0.1523°W | 2000 | Robert Dawson | — | Tile murals | — | Installed as part of Westminster City Council's Hidden Rivers public art project. [55] | |
Thames North and Thames South | Outside 199 Old Marylebone Road 51°31′12″N0°09′57″W / 51.5200°N 0.1657°W | 2001 | Hamish Black | — | Sculptures | — | Sculptures formed from sheets of galvanised steel stacked on top of one another. [56] | |
Westminster Double | Richbourne Court, Harrowby Street | 2003 | Hamish Black | Architectural sculpture | [57] | |||
Relief | 40 Portman Square | 2006 | John Carter | Squire and Partners | Architectural sculpture | — | An abstract relief, described as a "paperclip sculpture", in Portland stone. [58] [59] | |
Nexus | Outside York House, Seymour Street 51°30′51″N0°09′36″W / 51.5143°N 0.1599°W | 2007 | Robert Orchardson | — | Sculpture | — | Six soaring diamond-shaped forms in steel, painted black. [60] | |
Armillary Sphere sundial | Paddington Street Gardens, centre of the southern part 51°31′13″N0°09′15″W / 51.5202°N 0.1541°W | 2007–2008 | c.? | — | Sculpture | — | Sundial in the form of an armillary sphere; the supporting plinth is a former drinking fountain. [61] The sphere of c. 2007–2008 is a replacement of an earlier one. [62] | |
Field Work | 7 Portman Mews South | 2009 | Shauna McMullan | Garnett and Partners | Architectural sculpture | — | A carving of meadow grasses, alluding to this area's largely agricultural character before the mid-18th century. [39] [58] [63] | |
Fibonacci Flip | The London Clinic Cancer Centre, 22 Devonshire Place | 2010 | Peter Randall-Page | Architectural sculpture | — | [64] | ||
Visitor | Cavendish Square Gardens | 2010 | David Breuer-Weil | — | Sculpture | — | [65] | |
Sculpture | 11 Baker Street | 2011 | Alexander Beleschenko | Squire and Partners | Glass sculpture | — | [58] [66] | |
Royal arms | Westminster Magistrates' Court | 2011 | ? | Hurd Rolland Partnership | Architectural sculpture | — | ||
More images | Wrapper | Edgware Road tube station (Circle and other lines) 51°31′12″N0°10′00″W / 51.5200°N 0.1667°W | 2012 | Jacqueline Poncelet | — | Vitreous enamel cladding | — | The largest vitreous enamel artwork in Europe, decorating a new building and perimeter wall next to the station with patterns inspired by research undertaken in the area. [67] |
Sculpture | 10 Portman Square | 2014 | Kate Maestri | Jestico + Whiles | Ceramic enamel sculpture on glass | — | Commissioned by British Land. [58] | |
Forest Under the Flyover | Marylebone Flyover 51°31′12″N0°10′12″W / 51.5200°N 0.1700°W | 2016 | Manou Bendon | — | Stencil | — | Commissioned by Transport for London. [68] | |
Architectural sculpture | The Chilterns, 24 Paddington Street | 2016 | ? | Squire and Partners | Architectural sculpture | — | The vertical slats of different colours represent record sleeves on shelves, in reference to the Beatles' Apple Boutique which was situated a few doors down from this building. [69] [70] | |
More images | Cadence | Chiltern Square, Paddington Street | 2017 | Owen Bullett | — | Sculpture | — | [71] |
More images | Statue of George Orwell | Broadcasting House | 2017 | Martin Jennings | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 7 November 2017. The wall behind is inscribed with a quotation from Animal Farm (1945): If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. [72] |
There and Now | Westminster Magistrates Court | 2017 | Bex Simon | — | Architectural sculpture | — | [73] | |
Ohisama Sushi Rising Sun Mural | Kenrick Place | 2020 | Andrea Beltrame | — | Mural | — | [74] [75] | |
More images | Bust of Adrian Shooter | Marylebone station | 2022 | Luke Perry | — | Bust | — | Unveiled 30 August 2022. [76] |
Regent's Park is one of London's Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster. The sculptures in Queen Mary's Gardens (laid out in the 1930s within the Inner Circle or Regent's Park) [77] were bequeathed by the artist Sigismund Goetze, who lived nearby at Grove House from 1907 until his death in 1939. [78] In 1944 his widow Constance Goetze established a trust fund in his memory, known as the Constance Fund, for the financing of new sculpture in London's parks. [79]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Eagle | Queen Mary's Gardens, near the Island Rock Garden 51°31′36″N0°09′11″W / 51.5266°N 0.1530°W | early 19th century | Anonymous; thought to be Japanese | — | Statue | Grade II | Naturalistic bronze statue of an eagle, with wings outspread, landing on a rock. Presented to the Royal Parks in 1974. [80] |
More images | Lion Tazza | Avenue Gardens 51°31′36″N0°08′54″W / 51.5267°N 0.1482°W | 1863 | Austin and Seeley | — | Stone bowl supported by sculpted winged lions | — | [81] |
More images | Readymoney Drinking Fountain Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney | Broad Walk 51°31′58″N0°09′03″W / 51.5328°N 0.1507°W | 1869 | Henry Ross | Robert Keirle | Drinking fountain | Grade II | A gift from the Indian industrialist, in thanks for the protection of the Parsis under British rule. Unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck. [81] [82] |
More images | Hylas and the Nymph | St John's Lodge garden 51°31′45″N0°09′06″W / 51.5292°N 0.1516°W | 1894 | Henry Alfred Pegram | — | Fountain with sculptural group | Grade II | Originally titled The Bather. Part of the formal "Dutch" or "Old English" garden in front of St John’s Lodge. Presented to the park in 1933. [83] |
Boys with armorial shields | St John's Lodge Garden | 1894 and later | William Goscombe John and Harold Youngman | — | Sculptures | Grade II (north piers, south piers) | Probably installed for the Marquess of Bute, to whom the lease for St John's Lodge was sold in 1888. Three of the figures are by Goscombe John and date to 1894; one, by Youngman, is of 1938 and the remaining two are undated. [81] | |
More images | The Lost Bow | Queen Mary's Gardens 51°31′38″N0°09′10″W / 51.5273°N 0.1527°W | 1913 | Albert Hodge | — | Sculpture | Grade II | Ornamental sculpture of a putto sitting astride a vulture, believed to have been commissioned by Sigismund Goetze for Grove House. Presented to Queen Mary's Gardens in 1939. [84] |
More images | A Mighty Hunter | Queen Mary's Gardens 51°31′39″N0°09′09″W / 51.5275°N 0.1524°W | 1913 | Albert Hodge | — | Sculpture | Grade II | Bronze sculpture of a putto wrestling with a duck, a pendant to The Lost Bow. [85] ( See above .) |
More images | The Goatherd's Daughter Gertrude and Harold Baillie-Weaver | St John's Lodge garden 51°31′46″N0°09′05″W / 51.5294°N 0.1515°W | 1922 | Charles Leonard Hartwell | — | Statue | Grade II | The statue was first exhibited in 1929, when it won the silver medal of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. It was erected on this site in 1931 by the National Council for Animal Welfare, in honour of its founders. [86] |
More images | Jubilee Gates | Queen Mary's Gardens 51°31′42″N0°09′05″W / 51.5283°N 0.1513°W | 1935 | — | — | Gates | Grade II | The gates commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V and the official opening of Queen Mary's Gardens. [81] |
Boy and Frog | Queen Mary's Gardens 51°31′38″N0°09′16″W / 51.5273°N 0.1545°W | 1936 (donated) | William Reid Dick | — | Fountain with sculpture | Grade II | A gift of Sigismund Goetze. [81] | |
More images | Triton Sigismund Goetze | Queen Mary's Gardens 51°31′44″N0°09′11″W / 51.5289°N 0.1531°W | 1936 | William McMillan | — | Fountain with sculptural group | Grade II | Due to the Second World War the fountain was not installed until 1950, when it was awarded a gold medal award for the best sculpture exhibited in London that year. [87] The site was formerly occupied by a large conservatory belonging to the Royal Botanic Society, demolished in 1931. [81] |
Memorial to Anne Sharpley | St John's Lodge garden 51°31′44″N0°09′05″W / 51.5290°N 0.1515°W | after 1989 | — | — | Urn | — | Plinth inscribed In affectionate/ memory of/ANNE SHARPLEY/ 1928–1989/ journalist/ who/ loved this garden. [88] Sharpley was a reporter for the Evening Standard . [89] | |
Plaque commemorating restoration of gardens | Broad Walk 51°31′36″N0°08′52″W / 51.5267°N 0.1479°W | 1996 | Richard Kindersley | — | Plaque in pavement | — | Inscribed THIS PLAQUE CELEBRATES THE RESTORATION OF THE AVENUE GARDENS BETWEEN 1993 & 1996. THESE GARDENS WERE DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD, 1794–1881 & CREATED BETWEEN 1863 & 1865. [90] | |
Plaque commemorating the Regent's Park victims of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings of 20 July 1982 | Bandstand 51°31′35″N0°09′27″W / 51.5265°N 0.1574°W | 1982 | — | — | Plaque on wall | — | Inscribed TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE BANDSMEN OF THE 1ST BATTALION/ THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS/ WHO DIED AS THE RESULT OF A TERRORIST ATTACK/ HERE ON THE 20TH JULY 1982. [91] [92] | |
More images | The Awakening Anne Lydia Evans | St John's Lodge garden 51°31′44″N0°09′04″W / 51.5290°N 0.1511°W | 1998 [93] | Unus Safardiar | — | Sculpture | — | Plinth inscribed THE AWAKENING/ IN/ FOND MEMORY OF/ ANNE LYDIA EVANS/ 1929–1999/ WHO SHARED/ THE SECRET/ OF THIS GARDEN. [94] Evans was a general practitioner in Marylebone who campaigned to improve the medical care of victims of torture. [95] |
Girl and the Jaguar, Fox and the Girl, Boy and Butterflies | Regent's Park 51°32′02″N0°09′32″W / 51.5339°N 0.1589°W | 2010 | Tom Harvey | — | Sculptures | — | The sculptor worked with a pupils from St James's and St Michael's Primary Schools to come up with ideas for the sculptures. [96] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Stealing the Cubs | West of Three Island Pond 51°32′06″N0°09′10″W / 51.5350°N 0.1529°W | 1906 (erected) | Henri Teixeira de Mattos | — | Sculptural group | — | Donated to the Zoological Society of London by J. B. Wolff in 1906. [97] |
More images | London Zoo War Memorial | Outside the Butterfly House 51°32′06″N0°09′09″W / 51.5350°N 0.1524°W | 1919 | — | John James Joass | War memorial | Grade II | Based on a medieval Lanterne des Morts, a memorial to the dead in La Souterraine in the Creuse Valley, France. Joass was also the co-designer, with Peter Chalmers Mitchell, of the Zoo's Mappin Terraces, built 1913–14. [98] |
Lion's head | New Lion Terraces | 1970 | c.William Timym | — | Sculpture | — | Presented to the Zoo by the sculptor in September 1976. [99] Also on the New Lion Terraces is another sculpted head of a lion, a fragment from the demolished Lion House of 1875–76. [98] | |
Bear Cub or Winnie Memorial Winnipeg the Bear | Behind the Reptile House 51°32′06″N0°09′23″W / 51.5349°N 0.1563°W | 1981 | Lorne McKean | — | Statue | — | Unveiled by Christopher Robin Milne in September 1981, the statue commemorates Winnie-the-Pooh's namesake, a black bear cub which lived in London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. [100] The statue was a gift from the Trustees of Pooh Properties. [101] | |
More images | Statue of Guy the Gorilla | Near main entrance 51°32′08″N0°09′22″W / 51.5356°N 0.1560°W | 1982 | William Timym | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 10 November 1982. [102] A gift from Timym, the statue originally stood on the south side of the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys, but by 2009 it had been moved to its current site. [103] |
More images | Globe Sundial | Next to the Macaw Aviary 51°32′05″N0°09′07″W / 51.5348°N 0.1520°W | 1989 | Wendy Taylor | — | Sundial | — | Plaque inscribed This Globe Sundial shows in miniature how the Earth/ is bathed in sunlight./ Time is indicated by the fin which casts the least shadow./ The combination of the tilt of the earth's axis and the/ varying speed of its progress on an elliptical path around/ the sun causes a difference between the time shown and/ mean time of up to 16 minutes. The greatest differences/ occur in February and October. [104] A work in aluminium on a brick pedestal, it was a gift of Alcan Aluminium Ltd. [105] |
Dove | Members' Lawn 51°32′09″N0°09′15″W / 51.5357°N 0.1542°W | c. 1990 | — | — | Sculpture | — | [106] | |
New Life | In front of Education building 51°32′11″N0°09′29″W / 51.5365°N 0.1580°W | 1990 | Willi Soukop | — | Sculpture | — | [107] | |
More images | Ambika Paul Memorial Fountain | Ambika Paul Children's Zoo 51°32′05″N0°09′13″W / 51.5348°N 0.1535°W | 1994 | Shenda Amery | — | Fountain with sculpture | — | Ambika Paul was the daughter of Swraj Paul, later a peer, who funded the Children’s Zoo named in her memory. She died of leukaemia, aged 5, in 1968. [108] |
Harry Colebourn and Winnipeg the Bear | Children's Zoo (behind café) 51°32′00″N0°09′09″W / 51.5334°N 0.1526°W | 1995 (unveiled) | Bill Epp | — | Sculptural group | — | This second memorial to the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh shows the bear with the Canadian soldier who donated her to the Zoo; [109] A cast of a group originally unveiled in Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1992. The model for the figure of Colebourn was his son, Fred. [110] | |
More images | Unseen Prey | Members' Lawn 51°32′09″N0°09′15″W / 51.5357°N 0.1542°W | c. 1999 | Shenda Amery | — | Sculptural group | — | Amery's website gives the following commentary on the work: "Here the artist is expressing the violent force of nature, but without malice. We see two cheetahs frozen in the moment of their pursuit, their prey is unseen. The outcome of the chase is invariably the kill, but the cheetahs are working in co-operation and are hunting out of necessity in order to survive." [111] |
Dung Beetles | B.U.G.S. 51°32′03″N0°09′06″W / 51.5342°N 0.1517°W | 1999 | Wendy Taylor | — | Sculptural group | — | Unveiled July 1999 by Elizabeth II when opening the Web of Life exhibition, now called B.U.G.S. [112] | |
More images | Bust of Swraj Paul, Baron Paul | Ambika Paul Children's Zoo 51°32′02″N0°09′15″W / 51.5340°N 0.1543°W | 2002 (erected) | Sadiq [113] | — | Bust | — | A donation of £1m from Paul, an Indian-born industrialist, prevented the Zoo from being closed down in 1992. [114] |
Sundial | Thames Water Garden | 2003 | David Harber | — | Sundial | — | [115] | |
Gorillas | Gorilla Kingdom | 2007 | Bruce Pollin | — | Sculptures | — | [116] | |
More images | Clock | Blackburn Pavilion (Tropical Aviary) 51°32′01″N0°09′08″W / 51.5336°N 0.1521°W | 2008 | Tim Hunkin | — | Animated clock | — | The result of a commission on the theme of Victorian attitudes towards nature, Hunkin’s clock takes inspiration from the work of the cartoonist Saul Steinberg and from Rowland Emett’s Guinness Clock for the 1951 Festival of Britain. [117] |
Giant Tortoise | Giant tortoises display 51°32′05″N0°09′21″W / 51.5347°N 0.1558°W | 2009 | Owen Cunningham | — | Sculpture | — | [118] | |
More images | Boris the Polar Bear | Broad Walk, near the Amphitheatre 51°32′07″N0°09′13″W / 51.5353°N 0.1536°W | 2012 | Adam Binder | — | Statue | — | Originally displayed for a month in Sloane Square, the life-size bronze statue of a polar bear then became a permanent fixture at the Zoo. [119] |
Hari and his Mother | Entrance to Tiger Territory 51°32′05″N0°09′17″W / 51.5347°N 0.1548°W | 2013 | Linden Hamilton | — | Sculptural group | — | This replaced a statue by Carol Orwin titled Meow or Newborn Tiger Cub which was previously on the site. [120] | |
Hari Stretches | Tiger Territory 51°32′05″N0°09′22″W / 51.5347°N 0.1562°W | 2013 | Christine Close | — | Statue | — | A copper and bronze resin sculpture of a tiger stretching itself. [121] | |
Pouncer | Tiger Territory 51°32′05″N0°09′18″W / 51.5348°N 0.1551°W | 2013 | Carol Orwin | — | Sculptures | — | A bronze statue of a tiger cub learning to hunt, its eyes set on a flying frog. [122] | |
Territorial Challenge | Tiger Territory 51°32′03″N0°09′18″W / 51.5341°N 0.1550°W | 2013 | Teresa Martin | — | Statue | — | An iron and marble resin statue of a tiger on its hind legs, fighting. [123] | |
Tiger Going for a Swim | Tiger Territory 51°32′03″N0°09′17″W / 51.5342°N 0.1548°W | 2013 | Christy Symington | — | Sculpture | — | A bronze resin sculpture of a partly submerged tiger. [124] | |
Pygmy Hippopotamus | London Zoo | 2014 | Linden Hamilton | — | Sculpture | — | [125] | |
Statue of Ming the Giant Panda | Entrance to the Casson Pavilion | 2015 | ? | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 21 October 2015. A plaque in English and Chinese is behind the statue; the English reads: Ming was a giant panda who lived at ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos from 1938 to 1944. During the Second World War she became a symbol of friendship and stability as Londoners suffered under the Blitz. Thousands of children visited her until her death in 1944. This statue is offered on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II as a symbol of the enduring friendship between China and the UK, presented by the people of Sichuan. [126] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bear and Child | London Zoo | 1928 | "E. M. A." | — | Sculptural group | — | Donated to the Zoological Society of London by Constance Goetze in memory of her husband. The sculpture's location within the Zoo changed several times; in 2013 it took up residence in the ZSL's library. [127] | |
The Seated Hand | Next to the Macaw Aviary 51°32′07″N0°09′08″W / 51.5354°N 0.1521°W | 1988 | Diane Maclean | — | Sculpture | — | [128] |
St John's Wood, a suburban area of mainly Victorian buildings in the northern extremity of the City of Westminster, was declared a conservation area in 1968. [129]
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Memorial to Edward Onslow Ford | Abbey Road / Grove End Road 51°31′55″N0°10′38″W / 51.5319°N 0.1771°W | 1903 | Andrea Carlo Lucchesi | John William Simpson | Obelisk with sculpture | Grade II | Unveiled 13 July 1903. [130] At the front of the memorial is a casting of Onslow Ford's own Muse from his Shelley Memorial in University College, Oxford; behind is a portrait head of the sculptor by Lucchesi. [131] |
Grace Gates W. G. Grace | Lord's Cricket Ground 51°31′42″N0°10′24″W / 51.5283°N 0.1732°W | 1923 | — | Herbert Baker | Gates | Grade II | Two pairs of gates set in an exedra of Portland stone. [132] | |
More images | Father Time | Lord's Cricket Ground 51°31′44″N0°10′20″W / 51.5288°N 0.1722°W | 1926 | — | Herbert Baker | Weathervane | — | A gift by Baker, the architect of the Grandstand, to the Marylebone Cricket Club and Lord's. [133] Moved to the Mound Stand in 1996 to allow for the demolition of Baker's Grandstand and the construction of its replacement by Nicholas Grimshaw. [134] |
More images | Sporting figures | Lord's Cricket Ground, Wellington Road 51°31′48″N0°10′09″W / 51.5301°N 0.1693°W | 1934 | Gilbert Bayes | — | Bas-relief | Grade II | 13 sportspeople, including tennis players, golfers, cricketers, swimmers, oarsmen and footballers are depicted in a procession. The inscription PLAY UP PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME is taken from Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" (1892). The setting was remodelled in 1995–1996. [135] |
More images | St Marylebone War Memorial | St John's Wood roundabout, top of Park Road 51°31′48″N0°10′04″W / 51.530°N 0.1679°W | 1935 | c.Charles Leonard Hartwell | — | Equestrian statue | Grade II | Hartwell designed the bronze group of Saint George spearing the dragon for a war memorial in Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by Earl Haig. This later casting was a gift of Sigismund Goetze. [136] |
Memorial to Alice Drakoules | St John's Wood Churchyard | 1937 | — | — | Bird bath with relief sculpture | — | Alice Drakoules was the treasurer of the Humanitarian League who lived near this site, at Regent's Park; the relief depicts a stag, a fox, a heron, a squirrel, a horse, a cat and a dog, representing the broad compass of the organisation's work. [137] | |
Saint John the Baptist | St John's Wood Church 51°31′50″N0°10′05″W / 51.5306°N 0.1681°W | 1977 | Hans Feibusch | — | Statue | — | Primarily a muralist, Feibusch turned to sculpture in 1970 as his eyesight began to decline. He produced a John the Baptist in cast resin in 1973. [138] This cast of 1977 was installed to mark the completion of the church's new hall. [139] | |
Statue of W. G. Grace | Lord's Cricket Ground | 2000 | Louis Laumen | — | Statue | — | [140] | |
Bowler | Lord's Cricket Ground | 2002 | Antony Dufort | — | Statue | — | A figure of a cricketer in the first stage of the "follow through" position. [141] | |
Two reliefs | Embassy Court, 45 Wellington Road | 2009 | c.Sam Kiel | Piers Gough (CZWG) | Architectural sculpture | — | [142] | |
Sundial | Gardens of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth 51°31′59″N0°10′33″W / 51.5331°N 0.1758°W | ? | — | Sundial | — | [143] |
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