List of public art in the London Borough of Haringey

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Haringey .

Map of public art in the London Borough of Haringey

Alexandra Park

Main article: Alexandra Park, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Leo the Lion	Alexandra Park Boating Lake 51°35′47″N0°07′49″W / 51.5964°N 0.1303°W / 51.5964; -0.1303 (Leo the Lion)	1973	Charles Wheeler	Sculpture	Bronze	—	[1]
	Olympic sculptures	The Grove, Alexandra Park 51°35′32″N0°08′10″W / 51.5922°N 0.1361°W / 51.5922; -0.1361 (Olympic sculptures)	2012	Shane Green	Sculpture	Wood	—	Part of a series of sculptures of different sports to mark the 2012 Summer Olympics. [2] [3]

Crouch End

Main article: Crouch End

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Portrait roundel of Henry Reader Williams	Clock tower, Broadway 51°34′47″N0°07′25″W / 51.5798°N 0.1237°W / 51.5798; -0.1237 (Crouch End Clock Tower)	1895	Alfred Gilbert	Frederick Knight	Relief	Grade II	Williams (1822–1897) was a local benefactor. [4]
	Relief panels	Broadway House, 1–4 Broadway 51°34′43″N0°07′25″W / 51.5785°N 0.1235°W / 51.5785; -0.1235 (Broadway House)	1936–1937	?	Dawe and Carter	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[5]
More images	Reclining Figure	Outside Hornsey Library, Haringey Park 51°34′41.3″N0°7′20.6″W / 51.578139°N 0.122389°W / 51.578139; -0.122389 (Reclining Figure)	1963–1965	T. B. Huxley-Jones		Sculpture	Grade II	[6]
More images	The Spriggan	Parkland Walk, near site of former Crouch End railway station 51°34′29″N0°07′37″W / 51.5746°N 0.1269°W / 51.5746; -0.1269 (The Spriggan)	1993	Marilyn Collins	—	Sculpture	—	[7]

Highgate

Highgate is partly located outside the borough of Haringey; for works not listed here see the relevant sections for the boroughs of Camden and Islington.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Drinking fountain	Highgate Wood, Muswell Hill Road 51°35′03″N0°08′56″W / 51.5841°N 0.1489°W / 51.5841; -0.1489 (Drinking fountain)	1888	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	A plaque has lines from the poet Coleridge, who had links to Highgate: "Drink, Pilgrim, here! Here rest! And if thy heart/ Be innocent, here too shalt thou refresh/ Thy spirit, listening to some gentle sound/ Of passing gale or hum of murmuring bees!" [8]
	Highgate School War Memorial	Highgate School 51°34′17″N0°08′59″W / 51.5715°N 0.1497°W / 51.5715; -0.1497 (Highgate School War Memorial)	1921	Reginald Blomfield	Cross of Sacrifice	Grade II	[9]

Hornsey

Main article: Hornsey

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Drinking fountain	High Street 51°35′16″N0°06′59″W / 51.5878°N 0.1164°W / 51.5878; -0.1164 (Drinking fountain)	1863	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	[10]
	Metcalf Fountain Charles Thomas Page Metcalf	Priory Park, Middle Lane 51°35′05″N0°07′25″W / 51.5848°N 0.1236°W / 51.5848; -0.1236 (Metcalf Fountain)	1879 c. 1879	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	The fountain originally stood in Crouch End Broadway; Metcalf donated it as a replacement for the village pump. It was moved here after the Broadway Clock Tower was erected on the site. [11]
	St Paul's Fountain	Priory Park 51°35′09″N0°07′23″W / 51.5858°N 0.1230°W / 51.5858; -0.1230 (St Paul's Fountain)	1880	Francis Cranmer Penrose	Fountain	Grade II	Originally outside St Paul's Cathedral, marking the site of Paul's Cross, the foundations of which had been discovered in 1874. Moved here in the 1900s to allow for the construction of the current St Paul's Cross on the previous site. [12]
	Drop	Philosophers' Garden, Priory Park	1990s	Marilyn Collins	Sculptural water feature	—	[13]
	Abstract sculpture	New River Avenue	2008 c. 2008	?	Sculpture	—	[14]
	Totem 'Shapes of Thought'	Philosophers' Garden, Priory Park	2018	Elite Transformations	Sundial	—	[15]

Muswell Hill

Main article: Muswell Hill

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Bust of Oliver Tambo	O. R. Tambo Recreation Ground	2007	Ian Walters	Bust	—	The anti-apartheid activist lived in exile for almost three decades at Muswell Hill, and frequently visited this park. Formerly called Albert Road Recreation Ground, it was renamed after him in 2021. [16] [17]
More images	Statue of Oliver Tambo	O. R. Tambo Recreation Ground	2019	Artists and technicians led by Dali Tambo	Statue	—	Unveiled 27 October 2019, with Thembi Tambo as guest of honour. [18] Another version is at O. R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa. [19]

Tottenham

Main article: Tottenham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Tottenham High Cross	Junction of Tottenham High Road and Monument Way 51°35′20″N0°4′13″W / 51.58889°N 0.07028°W / 51.58889; -0.07028	1600 c. 1600 (modified 1809)	?	Cross	Grade II	[20]
	All Hallows' Church War Memorial	All Hallows' Churchyard 51°36′02″N0°04′36″W / 51.6006°N 0.07656°W / 51.6006; -0.07656 (All Hallows' Church War Memorial)	1920 c. 1920	?	Celtic cross	Grade II	[21]
More images	Tottenham War Memorial	Tottenham Green 51°35′12.43″N0°4′17.22″W / 51.5867861°N 0.0714500°W / 51.5867861; -0.0714500	1923	Louis Frederick Roslyn	War memorial with statue	Grade II	[22]
More images	Ferry boat tile motif	Tottenham Hale station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Edward Bawden	Tile murals	—	[23]
More images	Seven trees tile motif	Seven Sisters station, Victoria line platforms	1969	Hans Unger	Tile murals	—	[24]
	Embracing Forms	Tottenham High Road, near the High Cross, across from the Maa Maat Cultural Centre 51°21′08″N4°07′19″W / 51.35223°N 004.122°W / 51.35223; -004.122	1983	Vanessa Pomeroy	Sculpture	—	[25]
	Equality-Harmony	Tangmere House, Broadwater Farm Estate	1986–1987	Gülsün Erbil	Mosaic mural	Grade II	Commissioned in the wake of the Broadwater Farm riot of 1985. Erbil was herself a resident of the estate. [26] [27]
	Peace Mural I	Broadwater Farm Estate	1987	Anthony Steele	Mural	—	Depicts Bob Marley, Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon and, on a mountaintop in the distance, Martin Luther King. [27]
	Interlocking Rings	Bruce Castle Park	1990–2000	Jack Gardner	Sculpture	—	Installed here in 2012, on the plinth of a removed 19th-century drinking fountain. [28]
	Waterfall Mural	Debden block, Broadwater Farm Estate	1991	Bernette Hall and Donald Taylor	Mural	—	Considered a symbol of the estate, the mural alludes to the River Moselle which runs through the site. [27]
More images	Skeleton Horse	Chestnuts Park 51°34′53″N0°05′19″W / 51.5815°N 0.0885°W / 51.5815; -0.0885 (Skeleton Horse)	2005	Ann Carrington	Sculpture	—	Made from reclaimed wood and materials. [29]
More images	Imagine, Remember, Reflect, React The Holocaust	Bruce Castle	2007	Paul Margetts after Claudia Holder	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 2008. [30]
	Bruce Castle Holocaust Sculpture	Bruce Castle	2013	?	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 7 July 2013. [31]
	Mural of Ledley King	Tottenham Community Sports Centre, High Rd [32]	2022	MurWalls [33]	Mural	—	Unveiled January 2022. Mural of former Tottenham Hotspur captain Ledley King. The quote "This is my club, my one and only club" is in reference to King's status as a one-club player
	Mural of Harry Kane	Whitehall St	2023	MurWalls	Mural	—	Unveiled in May 2023. Mural of former Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, commissioned in celebration of Kane becoming the club's record highest goal scorer in February 2023. Kane and his family left their handprints and signatures on the bottom right [34] [35]

West Green

Main article: West Green, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	West Green and Tottenham War Memorial	West Green Road 51°35′11″N0°05′14″W / 51.5865°N 0.0872°W / 51.5865; -0.0872 (West Green and Tottenham War Memorial)	1922	—	Obelisk	Grade II	Unveiled 16 July 1922. [36]
	Windrush Memorial	Rose Garden	1998	?	Marker with plaque	—	Unveiled 23 June 1998. [37]
	Sustrans Portrait Bench	Downhills Park 51°35′14″N0°05′17″W / 51.5872°N 0.0880°W / 51.5872; -0.0880 (Sustrans Portrait Bench)	2013	?	Sculpture	—	Depicts Nicola Adams, Walter Tull and Luke Howard. [38] [39]

Wood Green

Main article: Wood Green

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Catharine Smithies Memorial Drinking Fountain	Bounds Green Road 51°36′03″N0°06′58″W / 51.6009°N 0.1162°W / 51.6009; -0.1162	1879	?	Obelisk with drinking fountain	Grade II	[40] [41]
More images	Drinking fountain and cattle trough	Wood Green High Road, near junction with Trinity Road 51°36′03″N0°06′43″W / 51.600947°N 0.111807°W / 51.600947; -0.111807	1901	?	Drinking fountain and cattle trough	Grade II	[42]
More images	St Saviour's War Memorial	Alexandra Park Road 51°35′54″N0°07′45″W / 51.5983°N 0.1292°W / 51.5983; -0.1292 (St Saviour's War Memorial)	1919	John Samuel Alder	Memorial cross	Grade II	[43]
More images	Wood Green War Memorial	Wood Green High Road, near junction with Bounds Green Road 51°35′58″N0°06′39″W / 51.5995°N 0.1109°W / 51.5995; -0.1109	1920	?	War memorial	Grade II	[44]

See also

• Slave Labour , a mural by Banksy which appeared in Wood Green in 2012

References

1. "A Look Back at Alexandra Palace". Alexandra Palace. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
2. "Tree sculptures carved in Alexandra Park, July/August 2012". Friends of Alexandra Park. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
3. "Otley artist Shane Green carves his way into Olympics legacy". Wharfedale Observer. 29 September 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
4. Crouch End Clock Tower. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
5. Relief Panels. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
6. Reclining Figure. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
7. "The Mystery of the Parkland Walk Spriggan Solved". Harringay online. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
8. Historic England. "Drinking Fountain in Highgate Wood (1096149)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
9. Historic England. "War Memorial at Highgate School (1346210)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
10. Historic England. "Drinking fountain (1249716)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
11. "Metcalf fountain". London Remembers. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
12. "Fountain from St Pauls". London Remembers. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
13. Drop Water Feature. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
14. Abstract Sculpture. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
15. Totem 'Shapes of Thought'. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
16. Allin, Simon (10 February 2021). "Haringey recreation ground renamed after O.R. Tambo". Enfield Independent. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
17. Matthews 2018, p. 221.
18. Taylor, Harry (4 November 2019). "Oliver Tambo: Muswell Hill statue unveiled to key anti-apartheid figure". Ham&High. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
19. Oliver Tambo (1917–1993). Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
20. Historic England. "Tottenham High Cross (1188856)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
21. Historic England. "War Memorial at All Hallows Church (1431844)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
22. Historic England. "War Memorial (1061398)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
23. Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Tottenham Hale.
24. "Who Were The Seven Sisters?". Londonist. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
25. Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1998). London: North. Yale University Press. ISBN   0300096534 . Retrieved 23 August 2017.
26. Historic England. "Mosaic mural at Tangmere House (1482419)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
27. Listing saves Tottenham estate community mural from demolition. Twentieth Century Society. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
28. Interlocking Rings. Art UK. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
29. Weekend Wonder: The Skeleton Horse (PDF). Haringey Council, Haringey Archive and Museum Service. 6 June 2020.
30. Imagine, Remember, Reflect, React. Art UK. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
31. "Bruce Castle Holocaust Sculpture". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
32. "LEDLEY KING MURAL Tottenham Community Sports Centre". tottenhamcommunitysportscentre.com. January 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
33. "Tribute fit for a King Tottenham Hotspur". tottenhamhotspur.com. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
34. "Harry's record celebrated with mural in the heart of Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur". tottenhamhotspur.com. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
35. "Kane visits his mural... and adds his own finishing touches Tottenham Hotspur". tottenhamhotspur.com. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
36. Historic England. "West Green and Tottenham War Memorial (1440866)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
37. West Green Windrush Memorial. Art UK. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
38. M@ (12 September 2019). "What Connects Michael Caine, Ronnie Corbett And Nicola Adams? London's Portrait Benches". Londonist. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
39. "Tottenham heroes commemorated on bench". Tottenham Independent. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
40. Historic England. "Obelisk memorial drinking fountain (1359592)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
41. "Monument to Victorian Anti-Slavery & Animal Rights Campaigner". Harringay Online. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
42. "Cattle Trough, Haringey". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
43. Historic England. "St Saviour's War Memorial (1249710)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
44. "War Memorial, Haringey". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 5 September 2015.

Bibliography

• Matthews, Peter (2018). London's Statues and Monuments. Oxford: Shire Publications.

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Haringey at Wikimedia Commons