List of public art in Victoria, London

This is a list of public art in Victoria , a district in the City of Westminster, London.

Victoria is roughly described as the area around Victoria station. It includes the conservation areas of Broadway and Christchurch Gardens, Grosvenor Gardens and the environs of Westminster Cathedral. Particularly noteworthy examples of architectural sculpture can be found at 55 Broadway, where in 1928–1929 sculptors including Eric Gill and Henry Moore were engaged on representations of the Four Winds; two further figures, Night and Day, were carved by Jacob Epstein. ^[1] A great deal of public art by recent graduates of art schools in London was incorporated into Cardinal Place, a development of 2005. ^[2]

Map of public art in Victoria

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Blue Coat Scholar	Blewcoat School, Caxton Street	1709			Statue in niche	Grade I
	Hercules Taming the Horses of Diomedes	Buckingham Palace Riding School, Buckingham Palace Road	1859	William Theed	James Pennethorne	Relief	Grade I	[3]
	Architectural sculpture	Grosvenor Hotel, 101 Buckingham Palace Road	c. 1860–1862	Daymond & Son	J. T. Knowles Sr and Jr	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	Among the figures portrayed in the roundels are Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Alexander von Humboldt and the prime ministers Palmerston, Derby and Russell. The allegorical sculpture includes two figures in niches which may represent Horticulture and Agriculture. [4]
More images	Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet	Westminster City School, Palace Street 51°29′52″N0°08′21″W / 51.4978°N 0.1393°W / 51.4978; -0.1393 (Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet)	1901	Frank Mowbray Taubman	—	Statue	—	Unveiled 27 June 1901. A replica of the statue in Waterlow Park, Highgate. [5]
	Statues of Queen Victoria and Edward VII	Caxton Hall	1902		Lee and Smith	Statues in niches	Grade II	[6] [7]
	Coats of arms of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway	Victoria station (former LB&SCR building; screen wall onto Buckingham Palace Road)	1905	Gilbert Seale	W. E. Reilly	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	The arms combine those of London, Brighton, the Cinque Ports and Ports­mouth. [8]
	Mercury and (?)  Minerva	Victoria station (former LB&SCR building; Terminus Place façade)	1905 c. 1905	Gilbert Seale	C. D. Collins	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	Added after criticisms of the initial design for the façade, these figures were none­the­less con­demned by The Builder as "gimcrack ornament ... like the decorations of a public house". [9]
	Mermaid caryatids and cartouches	Victoria station (former SE&CR building, Terminus Place)	1909	Henry Charles Fehr	Alfred W. Blomfield	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[10]
	Christ in Majesty with the Virgin and Saints Joseph, Peter and Edward	Westminster Cathedral 51°29′46″N0°08′23″W / 51.4962°N 0.1398°W / 51.4962; -0.1398 (Christ in Majesty with the Virgin and Saints Joseph, Peter and Edward)	1916	Robert Anning Bell	John Francis Bentley	Tympanum mosaic	Grade I (building)	Based on a sketch by Bentley dated to 1895–1896 and later worked up in colour by his assistant John Marshall, [11] Bell's mosaic was criticised for its background of white tiles instead of the traditional gold. [12]
More images	Rifle Brigade War Memorial	Grosvenor Gardens 51°29′53″N0°08′49″W / 51.4980°N 0.1470°W / 51.4980; -0.1470 (Rifle Brigade War Memorial)	1924–1925	John Tweed	—	Memorial with sculpture	Grade II*	Unveiled 25 July 1925. The rifleman in contemporary uniform in the centre is flanked by an officer (on the left) and a private in early 19th-century uniform. [13]
More images	Reliefs	Apollo Victoria Theatre (formerly the New Victoria Cinema)	1929	Newbury Abbot Trent	William Edward Trent and Ernest Wamsley Lewis	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	Two panels either side of the main entrance show cinemagoers watching romance and thriller films, respectively. A simplified figure of Charlie Chaplin is at right angles to the panel on the right. [14]
More images	Statue of Ferdinand Foch	Grosvenor Gardens 51°29′47″N0°08′43″W / 51.4964°N 0.1453°W / 51.4964; -0.1453 (Statue of Ferdinand Foch)	1930	Georges Malissard	P. Lebret	Equestrian statue	Grade II*	Unveiled 5 June 1930. [15] A replica of a statue erected outside Marshal Foch's head­quarters in Cassel. [16] The choice of an existing work by a French sculpt­or caused some dis­satis­faction. The site was chosen so that the statue would be seen by French visitors arriving in London at Victoria station. [17]
More images	Speed Wings over the World	National Audit Office building (formerly the Imperial Airways Terminal), Buckingham Palace Road	1937–1939 c. 1937–1939	Eric Broadbentwith John William Drake	Albert Lakemanwith W. H. Williams	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	Two winged male figures in Art Deco style, reaching out to encircle a globe, with the Imperial Air­ways insignia below in bas-relief. [18]
	Saint Francis	47 Francis Street	1961	Arthur Fleischmann	Henry Astley Darbishire	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	Unveiled 13 April 1961, when the Catholic Central Library moved into the building. The figure has a halo of sparrows. [19]
More images	Cameo of Queen Victoria	Victoria station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Edward Bawden after Benjamin Pearce	—	Tile motif	—	Bawden produced an original linocut of the Queen's profile for this scheme but it was rejected; [20] the final design is based on a silhouette by Pearce. [21]
More images	Suffragette Memorial	Christchurch Gardens 51°29′54″N0°08′05″W / 51.4982°N 0.1348°W / 51.4982; -0.1348 (Suffragette Memorial)	1970	Lorne McKean and Edwin Russell	Paul Edward Paget	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 14 July 1970. A bronze scroll in the shape of the letter S balancing on a conical pedestal. Part of the inscription notes that NEARBY CAXTON HALL WAS/ HISTORICALLY ASSOCIATED/ WITH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE/ MEETINGS & DEPUTATIONS/ TO PARLIAMENT. [22]
	Split Form No. 9	10 Dean Farrar Street	1983–1984	Michael Marriott	Michael Lyell Associates	Architectural sculpture		[23]
More images	Statue of Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis	Outside the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk 51°30′00″N0°08′09″W / 51.500°N 0.1358°W / 51.500; -0.1358 (Statue of Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis)	1985	James Butler	—	Statue	—	Unveiled 9 May 1985 by the Queen Mother. Alexander had a particular affection for the old Guards Chapel (almost completely destroyed by bombing in 1944), having spent much time there as a subaltern. [24]
	Planned Growth	Rowan House, Greycoat Street	1986–1987	Peter Thursby	Renton Howard Wood Levine	Relief	—	The Royal Society of British Sculptors awarded its silver medal for this sculpture in 1987. [25]
More images	The Flowering of the English Baroque Henry Purcell	Christchurch Gardens 51°29′53″N0°08′03″W / 51.4980°N 0.1342°W / 51.4980; -0.1342 (The Flowering of the English Baroque)	1995	Glynn Williams	—	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 22 November 1995, the tercentenary of Purcell's death, by Princess Margaret. The sculptor described the design as "a rising explosion of activity, a tree to the musical evolution of the 17th century". This was the first major sculptural commission by Westminster City Council. [26]
More images	Big Painting Sculpture	Cardinal Place 51°29′52″N0°08′30″W / 51.4977°N 0.1418°W / 51.4977; -0.1418 (Big Painting Sculpture)	1996–1998	Patrick Heron	Julian Feary	Sculpture	—	Commissioned when the complex was still known as Stag Place. Based on several gouache studies by Heron of brightly coloured floating shapes connected by linear patterns. Neon tubes light up the work at night. [27]
More images	Lioness and Lesser Kudu	Grosvenor Gardens 51°29′52″N0°08′50″W / 51.4979°N 0.1473°W / 51.4979; -0.1473 (Lioness and Lesser Kudu)	1998	Jonathan Kenworthy	—	Sculptural group	—	Installed on this site in 2000; another cast already stood in the grounds of Eaton Hall, the Duke of West­minster's estate in Cheshire. [28]
More images	Cypher	Outside the Asticus Building, 21 Palmer Street 51°29′56″N0°08′07″W / 51.4990°N 0.1352°W / 51.4990; -0.1352 (Cypher)	2003	Tim Morgan	—	Sculpture	—	The sculpture, commissioned by the Cass Sculpture Foundation, consists of thousands of glass rods bound together within a circular steel belt. [29]
	Stacked Glass Sculpture	Cardinal Place 51°29′51″N0°08′28″W / 51.4975°N 0.1411°W / 51.4975; -0.1411 (Stacked Glass Sculpture)	2005	Tony Burke	Jane Wernick Associates (engineer)	Sculpture	—	The work comprises one twisting wall of stacked green glass and another curving; these are set on a cylindrical plinth. [30]
	Route	Cardinal Place 51°29′49″N0°08′26″W / 51.4970°N 0.1406°W / 51.4970; -0.1406 (Route)	2005	Joy Gerrard	—	Panels set in pavement	—	Nine discs of varying sizes set in the pavement of the Cardinal Place development at various points in a pedestrian's route; they are inlaid with smaller coloured discs. [31]
	LP4	Cardinal Place 51°29′52″N0°08′29″W / 51.4978°N 0.1415°W / 51.4978; -0.1415 (LP4)	2005	Nathaniel Rackowe	—	Kinetic sculpture	—	Two slabs of oblong welded steel panels (with a gap at the top of the grid forming a "machicolation") hold in place a thin cathode light tube; the whole structure is set into a rotating turn­table flush with the pave­ment. [32]
More images	Statue of Anna Pavlova	Victoria Palace Theatre	2006	Harry Franchetti	Frank Matcham	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*
More images	Statue of Queen Victoria	Victoria Square 51°29′52″N0°08′42″W / 51.4977°N 0.1449°W / 51.4977; -0.1449 (Statue of Queen Victoria)	2008	Catherine Anne Laugel	—	Statue	—	Victoria is portrayed as a young woman of 20, the age she would have been when construction on the square began. [33]
	Back-lit fused glass boxes	InterContinental London Westminster hotel, Broadway 51°29′58″N0°07′59″W / 51.4994°N 0.1330°W / 51.4994; -0.1330 (Back-lit fused glass boxes)	2012	Andrew Moor Associates	Dexter Moren Associates	Back-lit fused glass boxes	—	[34]
More images	Memorial to Victims of Violence	Christchurch Gardens 51°29′54″N0°08′02″W / 51.4982°N 0.1340°W / 51.4982; -0.1340 (Memorial to Victims of Violence)	2013 (unveiled)	Jim Martins	—	Commemorative stone with plaque	—	Unveiled 5 June 2013. [35] [36]
	Wind Sculpture	Howick Place 51°29′48″N0°08′14″W / 51.4968°N 0.1371°W / 51.4968; -0.1371 (Wind Sculpture)	2014	Yinka Shonibare	—	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 7 April 2014. The work simulates a piece of batik fabric (a signature material for Shonibare) billowing in the wind. [37]
More images	Flanders Fields 1914–2014	Outside the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk	2014	—	Piet Blanckaert	Memorial	—	The memorial garden, a gift from Belgium, was opened on 6 November 2014 by Elizabeth II; the Belgian king Philippe was also present. [38] A low circular wall, within which is planted soil from the war cemeteries of Flanders, is inscribed with the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. [39]
	Underline	Victoria tube station	2015	Giles Round, Design Work Leisure	—	Ceramic mural	—	[40]
More images	Power over Others is Weakness Disguised as Strength	Orchard Place	2023	Nick Hornby	—	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 22 June 2023. [41] Incorporates visual quotations from the equestrian statue of Richard I outside Parliament and a curling line which interrupts the text of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy . [42]
	Endangered Species Triptych	Saga House, Allington Street		Barry Baldwin	Sidell Gibson and Associates	Architectural sculpture		[43]

55 Broadway

Main article: 55 Broadway

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Day and Night	55 Broadway	1929	Jacob Epstein	Charles Holden
	North Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Alfred Horace Gerrard	Charles Holden
	North Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Eric Gill	Charles Holden
	East Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Eric Gill	Charles Holden
	East Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Allan G. Wyon	Charles Holden
	South Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Eric Gill	Charles Holden
	South Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Eric Aumonier	Charles Holden
	West Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Samuel Rabinovitch	Charles Holden
	West Wind	55 Broadway	1928	Henry Moore	Charles Holden
More images	Angels of History	St James's Park tube station	2024	Hannah Quinlan, Rosie Hastings		Mosaic		[44]

References

1. Purdon 2013 , passim
2. Cardinal Place, London SW1. The Davidson Arts Partnership. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
3. Bradley & Pevsner 2003, p. 652.
4. Cavanagh 2023, p. 451.
5. Blackwood 1989, p. 101.
6. Baker 2002, p. 34.
7. Historic England. "Caxton Hall (1357266)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
8. Cavanagh 2023, p. 466.
9. Cavanagh 2023, p. 467.
10. Cavanagh 2023, p. 468.
11. Westminster City Council 2008, pp. 47–48
12. Bradley & Pevsner 2003, p. 674
13. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 50–51
14. Cavanagh 2023, p. 469.
15. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 51
16. Westminster City Council 2006, p. 50
17. "Statue of Marshal Foch". Your Archives. The National Archives. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
18. Cavanagh 2023, pp. 452–453.
19. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 40.
20. Edward Bawden CBE, RA: Queen Victoria. Fry Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
21. Ovenden 2013, p. 243
22. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 30
23. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 39.
24. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 409–10
25. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 50.
26. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 31–32
27. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 16–17
28. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 53–54
29. "Cypher". Morgan Sculpture. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
30. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 17
31. "Public Art Projects 2004–12". Joy Gerrard. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
32. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 17–18
33. Commission Work. Catherine Anne Laugel. Archived from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
34. "Public Art". Andrew Moor Associates. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
35. Memorial to the Victims of Violence Unveiled. Victims' Voice. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
36. Erection of a stone memorial dedicated to victims of violence in Christchurch Gardens (PDF). Westminster City Council, Planning and City Development Committee. 10 May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
37. "Yinka Shonibare's Wind Sculpture arrives at Howick Place, Victoria". Howick Place London SW1. 8 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
38. Rayner, Gordon (6 November 2014). "Queen opens Remembrance garden created with soil from First World War battlefields". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
39. The Memorial Garden 'Flanders Fields 1914–2014': Supporter booklet (PDF). Wellington Barracks. pp. 9 and 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
40. Underline: Design Work Leisure. Art on the Underground. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
41. Richard I or a big squiggle? Nick Hornby unveils equine sculpture in the heart of Westminster. The Art Newspaper. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
42. New public artwork by Nick Hornby. Orchard Place. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
43. Barry Baldwin — Saga House . Retrieved 22 October 2010.
44. "Angels of History". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

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