List of public art in the London Borough of Islington

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

Map of public art in the London Borough of Islington

Barnsbury

Main article: Barnsbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial	Thornhill Road Gardens, junction of Thornhill Road and Richmond Avenue 51°32′20″N0°06′37″W / 51.5389°N 0.1102°W / 51.5389; -0.1102 (Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial)	1920	?	War memorial with Celtic cross	Grade II	[1]
	Huntingdon Arms sculpture	115 Hemingford Road (former Huntingdon Arms pub) 51°32′27″N0°06′49″W / 51.5409°N 0.1136°W / 51.5409; -0.1136 (Huntingdon Arms sculpture)		?	Relief sculpture	—	[2]
	Animal Park	Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens 51°32′07″N0°07′02″W / 51.5353°N 0.1171°W / 51.5353; -0.1171 (Animal Park)	2006	Monica Shanta Brown	Mosaics	—

Canonbury

Main article: Canonbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Horizon	Canonbury Square, eastern section 51°32′37″N0°06′00″W / 51.5437°N 0.0999°W / 51.5437; -0.0999 (Horizon)	2019	David Harber	Armillary sphere	—

Clerkenwell

Main article: Clerkenwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs	Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green	1779–1782 (building)	Joseph Nollekens	Relief sculptures	Grade II*	[3]
	Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District	Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road 51°31′29″N0°06′40″W / 51.5246°N 0.1111°W / 51.5246; -0.1111 (Postal Workers' War Memorial)	1920	?	Aedicule	Grade II	Unveiled 1 January 1920 at Wimpole Street Post Office, Marylebone. After that post office's closure in 1981 the memorial moved to the delivery offices in Rathbone Place; when they in turn closed in 2013 it moved to its current site. [4]
	Edgerunner	Owens Field, Goswell Road 51°31′50.8″N0°06′18″W / 51.530778°N 0.10500°W / 51.530778; -0.10500 (Edgerunner)		Paul Neagu	Sculpture		Unveiled 25 July 2012 [5]

Farringdon

Main article: Farringdon, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Samson and Deliah	Greenhill Rents 51°31′11″N0°06′10″W / 51.5198°N 0.1027°W / 51.5198; -0.1027 (Samson and Delilah)	~1609–1610	Peter Paul Rubens	Painting	—	Copy made for the National Gallery's "On Tour" exhibition in 2007. [6]
	Memorial to Edward Johnston	Farringdon station	2017	Fraser Muggeridge	Mural	—	Unveiled 24 June 2019. Giant reversed wooden letters in the typeface Johnston designed for the London Underground. [7]
	Avalanche	Farringdon station	2018	Simon Periton	Glazing motif	—	A sequence of large diamonds appearing to tumble down the escalator, alluding to the jewellers, goldsmiths and ironsmiths of nearby Hatton Garden. [8]
	Spectre	Farringdon station	2018	Simon Periton	Glazing motif	—	Based on a drawing by Christopher Dresser titled Force and Energy (c. 1867–1873), contemporary with Smithfield Market which is adjacent to the station. Periton's design also references the etched glass found in Victorian pubs. [8]

Finsbury

Main article: Finsbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Science and Agriculture	City, University of London, College Building	1894 c. 1894 – c. 1896	Paul Raphael Montford	Frieze	Grade II	[9]
More images	Finsbury War Memorial	Rosebery Avenue	15 August 1921	Thomas Rudge	War memorial with statue	Grade II	[10]
More images	Faceted Column	Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N0°05′15″W / 51.5204°N 0.0875°W / 51.5204; -0.0875 (Faceted Column)	1999	Stephen Cox	Sculpture	—	[11]
	Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash	Finsbury Square	2013	?	Memorial	—	Unveiled 28 July 2013. [12]
	Mercury	Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square		?			[13]
	2 figures of Triton the God	Triton Court, Finsbury Square
	4 females	Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square

Finsbury Park

Main article: Finsbury Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Crossed pistols tile motif	Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Tom Eckersley		—	[14]
	Balloon mosaics	Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms	1983	Annabel Grey		—	[15]
	Sustrans Portrait Bench	Outside Finsbury Park station 51°33′54″N0°06′20″W / 51.5649°N 0.1056°W / 51.5649; -0.1056 (Sustrans Portrait Bench)	2013	?	Sculpture	—	Depicts Jazzie B, Edith Garrud and Florence Keen. [16] [17]
	Gillespie Park triptych	Seven Sisters Road, by the entrance to Gillespie Park 51°33′50″N0°06′21″W / 51.5640°N 0.1058°W / 51.5640; -0.1058 (Gilespie Park triptych)	2013	London School of Mosaic	Mosaic	—	Made with two local schools and approximately 20 volunteers; represents the flora and fauna of the park. Unveiled 2 December 2013. [18] [19]
	Elm Tree of Life	Finsbury Park station Wells Terrace entrance 51°33′55″N0°06′27″W / 51.5653°N 0.1076°W / 51.5653; -0.1076 (Elm Tree of Life)	2020	Carrie Reichardt, Karen Francesca and ATM	Mosaic	—	Opened 22 October 2020. [20]
	CIL Mosaic	City North Place, at junction with Goodwin Street 51°33′52″N0°06′27″W / 51.5645°N 0.1075°W / 51.5645; -0.1075 (CIL Mosaic)	2021	Carrie Reichardt	Mosaic	—	Opened during the week of 20 September 2021. Commissioned by the Business Design Centre Group (BDCG) to honour Sam Morris, founder of BDCG and City Industrial Limited (CIL). [21]

Highbury

Main article: Highbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Boer War Memorial	Highbury Fields	1905	Bertram Mackennal	War memorial with statue	Grade II	[22]
	Statue of Francis Bacon	Islington Central Library, Holloway Road	1906	Frederick Schenck	Statue in niche	Grade II	[22]
	Statue of Edmund Spenser	Islington Central Library, Holloway Road	1906	Frederick Schenck	Statue in niche	Grade II	[22]
	The Neighbours	Highbury Quadrant Estate 51°33′31″N0°05′37″W / 51.5585°N 0.0936°W / 51.5585; -0.0936	1957	Siegfried Charoux	Sculptural group	Grade II	[23]
More images	Highbury Manor tile motif	Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Edward Bawden		—	[24]

Highgate

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

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	St Aloysius' College War Memorial	Hornsey Lane 51°34′13″N0°08′20″W / 51.5703°N 0.1388°W / 51.5703; -0.1388 (St Aloysius' College War Memorial)	after 1918	?	Canopied calvary with relief	Grade II	The Carrara marble relief shows the Crucifixion with the Three Maries at the foot of the Cross. [25]
More images	Dick Whittington's cat	Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51°33′59″N0°08′13″W / 51.5665°N 0.1369°W / 51.5665; -0.1369	1964	Jonathan Kenworthy	Sculpture	Grade II	[26]

Holloway

Main article: Holloway, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Prayer of Peace	Elthorne Park, Upper Holloway	1986	Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede	Sculpture	—	[27]
More images	Statue of Tony Adams	Emirates Stadium	2011	MDM	Statue	—	Unveiled 9 December 2011. [28]
More images	Statue of Herbert Chapman	Emirates Stadium	2011	MDM	Statue	—	Unveiled 9 December 2011. [29]
More images	Statue of Thierry Henry	Emirates Stadium	2011	Margot Roulleau-Gallais	Statue	—	Unveiled 9 December 2011. [30]
More images	Statue of Dennis Bergkamp	Emirates Stadium	2014	MDM	Statue	—	Unveiled 22 February 2014. [31]
More images	Statue of Ken Friar	Emirates Stadium	2014	MDM	Statue	—	Unveiled 28 February 2014. [32]
	Memorial to Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives	Whittington Hospital	2021	?	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 10 September 2021. [33]
	Statue of Arsène Wenger	Emirates Stadium	2023	Jim Guy	Statue	—	Unveiled 28 July 2023. [34]

Newington Green

Main article: Newington Green

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft	Newington Green 51°33′05″N0°05′06″W / 51.5515°N 0.0851°W / 51.5515; -0.0851 (A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft)	2020	Maggi Hambling	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 10 November 2020. [35]

Pentonville

Main article: Pentonville

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	War memorial at St Silas's Church	Risinghill Street 51°32′01″N0°06′42″W / 51.5335°N 0.1117°W / 51.5335; -0.1117 (War memorial at St Silas's Church)	1917	Arthur George Walker	Memorial cross	Grade II

St Luke's

Main article: St Luke's, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Christ Healing the Blind Man	Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension	1933–1935 (building)	Eric Gill	Relief sculpture		[36]
	Opening the Lockgate	Outside 250 City Road, opposite City Road Basin	2020	Ian Rank-Broadley	Sculptural group	—	Commemorates the bicentenary of the Regent's Canal. The first of three works by the sculptor commissioned for the development; the others will be installed in 2021 and 2023. [37]

St Mary's

Main article: St Mary's

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Frieze from Hall of Commerce, probably untitled, known as Commerce Welcoming All Nations and The Benefice of Commerce	Battishill Street Gardens, Napier Terrace. Originally in Edward Moxhay's Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle Street, demolished 1922. 51°32′23″N0°06′15″W / 51.539821°N 0.104189°W / 51.539821; -0.104189	1842 1975 (unveiled on present site)	Musgrave Watson	Sculpted frieze	—	Frieze relocated for garden opening in 1975. [38] [39] [lower-alpha 1]
	Sculpture of hen with chicks	Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar, 109 St Paul's Road 51°32′46″N0°06′07″W / 51.5461°N 0.1020°W / 51.5461; -0.1020	1854	?	Relief sculpture	—	[41]
	Sculpture of hounds chasing hare	181 Upper Street (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub) 51°32′32″N0°06′11″W / 51.5421°N 0.1031°W / 51.5421; -0.1031	1856 c. 1856	?	Relief sculpture	—	[42]
More images	Statue of Hugh Myddelton	Islington Green 51°32′09″N0°06′13″W / 51.5357°N 0.1036°W / 51.5357; -0.1036	1862	John Thomas	Statue	Grade II	[43]
	Sculpture of three wheatsheaves	56 Upper Street (formerly the Three Wheatsheaves pub) 51°32′08″N0°06′15″W / 51.5355°N 0.1042°W / 51.5355; -0.1042	1864 c. 1864	?	Relief sculpture	—	[44]
	Four caryatids	116–118 Upper Street (formerly the Northern District Post Office) 51°32′18″N0°06′09″W / 51.5384°N 0.1025°W / 51.5384; -0.1025 (Four caryatids)	1906 c. 1906	?	Statues	Grade II
	Female figure	75 and 75A Upper Street (originally the entrance to the Electric Theatre cinema, 1908–1916) 51°32′11″N0°06′13″W / 51.5364°N 0.1037°W / 51.5364; -0.1037	1908	?	Statue on dome	Grade II	The figure originally held an electric lighted globe. [45]
	Memorial to Thomas Paine	Angel Court, Owen Street	1991	Kevin Jordan	Obelisk	—	[46]
	Angel	Angel tube station	1996	Kevin Boys	Statue	—	[47]
	Angel on the Green	Anderson Square garden 51°32′12″N0°06′09″W / 51.5366°N 0.1026°W / 51.5366; -0.1026 (Angel on the Green)	1999	John Roberts	Statue	—	Unveiled 6 September 1999. [48]
More images	Angel Wings	N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington	2003	Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron	Sculpture	—	[49]
	Halo	N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington	2003	Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron	Sculpture	—	[49]
	Islington Green War Memorial	Islington Green	2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial)	John Maine	War memorial	—	[50]
	Street Cat Bob	Islington Green 51°32′11″N0°06′09″W / 51.5363°N 0.1026°W / 51.5363; -0.1026	2021	Tanya Russell	Bronze sculpture	—	Unveiled 15 July 2021. [51]
	Sculpture of Old Parr's head, plus other designs	66 Cross Street / 290 Upper Street (formerly the Old Parr's Head pub) 51°32′23″N0°06′08″W / 51.5396°N 0.1023°W / 51.5396; -0.1023		?	Relief sculptures	—	[52]

Shoreditch

Main article: Shoreditch

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of John Wesley	Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51°31′25″N0°05′14″W / 51.5237°N 0.0872°W / 51.5237; -0.0872	1891	John Adams-Acton	Statue	Grade II	[43]

Notes

1. An accompanying plaque reads: "The stone frieze was carved by Musgrave Watson in 1842 and formed part of a Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle Street until it was demolished in 1922. The stonework was salvaged by Sir Albert Richardson and remained in pieces at London University. In 1974 these were given to the Borough Architect who replaced the missing sections to make the frieze a feature in the new Battishill Gardens. The sculpture is an allegorical composition showing Commerce standing centrally with wings outstretched to welcome all nations. On the left hand side there is a lion and representations of Poetry, Music and Painting; then Enterprise guided by Genius with a group looking towards the Messenger of Peace and Glad Tidings. On the other side of Commerce is Peace and Bearers of Fruits of the Earth, then Navigation guided by Urania and others personifying Geography and Education. To the far right are people of other countries shackled and dejected looking imploringly towards Britannia holding a flag, symbolic of liberty and protection." The frieze was restored in 2024 by the Heritage of London Trust. ^[40]

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External links

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