This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Lambeth .
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Bust of Henry Tate | Brixton Library | 1905 | Thomas Brock | Bust | Bronze | Grade II | [1] |
Justice, Science, Art and Literature | Lambeth Town Hall clock tower | c. 1905–1908 | Portland stone | Grade II | ||||
Youth | Lambeth Town Hall | c. 1935–1938 | Denis Dunlop | Relief | Portland stone | Grade II | ||
More images | Pile of bricks tile motif | Brixton tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | Hans Unger | — | [2] | ||
More images | Platforms Piece Joy Battick, Karin Heistermann and Peter Lloyd | Brixton railway station | 1986 | Kevin Atherton | Statues | Bronze | Grade II | [3] |
Sharpeville Massacre Memorial | Windrush Square | 1987 | ? | Memorial | Stone and metal | — | [4] | |
More images | The Brixton Heron | Roof of the Prince of Wales pub, corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane 51°27′42″N0°06′55″W / 51.4615593°N 0.1152009°W | 2010 | Maggi Hambling | Sculptural weather vane | Metal | — | Depicts a grey heron with a fish in its bill. |
More images | The Foxes and Cherries | Electric Avenue | 2010 | Lucy Casson | Architectural sculpture | Fibreglass and recycled materials | — | [5] |
Brixton Speaks | Electric Avenue | 2011 | Will Self , Jack Self | — | ||||
David Bowie mural | Morley's department store, Tunstall Road | 2013 | James Cochran | Mural | — | [6] | ||
Twins | Somerleyton Road, Coldharbour Lane | 2016 | Taslim Martin | Cast iron and stainless steel | — | [7] | ||
More images | African and Caribbean War Memorial | Windrush Square | 2017 | Obelisk | — | Unveiled 22 June 2017. The design was announced to the public in 2014. [8] | ||
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion | Windrush Square | 2021 | Adjaye Associates | — | [9] | |||
Platforms Piece: The Return, or Joy II Joy Battick | Brixton railway station | 2023 | Kevin Atherton | Statue | Bronze | — | A statue of one of the subjects of Atherton's earlier work at the station aged 62, facing her 26-year-old self across the platforms. [10] | |
Brixton murals | Various locations in and around Brixton town centre | — |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Drinking fountain | Clapham Common, between Long Road and The Pavement 51°27′42″N0°08′26″W / 51.4618°N 0.1406°W | 1884 | August von Kreling | Fountain with sculptural group | Bronze with granite plinth | Grade II | [11] |
More images | Clapham Common War Memorial | Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common 51°27′45″N0°08′33″W / 51.4624°N 0.1426°W | after 1918 | ? | Celtic cross | Granite | Grade II | [12] |
War memorial | St Mary's Roman Catholic Church 51°27′41″N0°08′14″W / 51.4615°N 0.1372°W | 1919–1920 | Giles Gilbert Scott | War memorial | Limestone | Grade II | [13] | |
Clapham Park War Memorial | Church of the Holy Spirit, Narbonne Avenue 51°27′17″N0°08′25″W / 51.4547°N 0.1403°W | 1921 | ? | Calvary cross | Stone | Grade II | Unveiled 14 November 1921. [14] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Decorative column | Kennington Park 51°29′01″N0°06′36″W / 51.4835°N 0.1101°W | 1869 | c.George Tinworth | Column | Terracotta | Grade II | [15] |
War memorial | St Mark's Church 51°28′54″N0°06′45″W / 51.4816°N 0.1124°W | 1921 | ? | Memorial cross | Granite | Grade II | Unveiled 29 October 1921. [16] | |
More images | Kennington War Memorial | Kennington Park 51°29′07″N0°06′30″W / 51.4854°N 0.1083°W | 1924 | Thomas Arthur Lodge | Cenotaph | Stone | Grade II | Unveiled 19 July 1924. [17] |
Memorial to Len Hutton | Hobbs Gate, The Oval | 1989–1993 | Walter Ritchie | Relief sculpture | Brick | — | The cricketer is portrayed scoring his record-breaking innings of 364 runs against Australia in 1938. [18] This work is said to be Ritchie's masterpiece. [19] | |
More images | Memorial to Victims of the Kennington Park Air Raid Shelter Tragedy | Kennington Park 51°29′01″N0°06′37″W / 51.4837°N 0.1103°W | 2006 | Richard Kindersley | Memorial | Caithness stone | — | Unveiled 14 October 2006. Inscribed with a quotation from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993): history/ despite its/ wrenching/ pain/ cannot/ be unlived/ but/ if faced/ with/ courage/ need not/ be lived/ again. [20] |
Touchstone | Oval Triangle | 2018 | Peter Randall-Page | Sculpture | Granite | — | [21] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Statue of Edward VI | Outside main entrance, St Thomas' Hospital 51°29′59″N0°07′08″W / 51.4998°N 0.1188°W | 1682 | Thomas Cartwright after Nathaniel Hanwell | Statue | Stone | Grade II* | [22] |
More images | Statue of Robert Clayton | A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital 51°30′01″N0°07′10″W / 51.5004°N 0.1195°W | 1702 | Grinling Gibbons | Statue | Marble | Grade I | [23] |
More images | Statue of Edward VI | St Thomas' Hospital 51°29′57″N0°07′10″W / 51.4992°N 0.1195°W | 1736 | Peter Scheemakers | Statue | Bronze | Grade II* | [24] |
Mr Doulton in His Studio Henry Doulton | Southbank House, 81 Black Prince Road | 1878 | c.George Tinworth | Tympanum relief | Terracotta | Grade II | [25] | |
More images | Revolving Torsion | A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital | 1972–1973 | Naum Gabo | Sculpture with fountain | Stainless steel | Grade II* | [26] |
More images | South of the River | Outside Becket House, Lambeth Palace Road | 1975–1976 | Bernard Schottlander | Sculpture | Stainless steel | Grade II | [27] |
Herald Sundial | Heralds Place | 1984 | Nathan David | Relief with sundial | Stone and bronze | — | [28] | |
More images | Cross the Divide | Outside St Thomas' Hospital | 2000 | Rick Kirby | Sculptural group | Stainless steel | — | [29] |
More images | International Memorial to Seafarers | International Maritime Organization, Albert Embankment | 2001 | Michael Sandle | Sculpture | Bronze | — | Unveiled 27 September (World Maritime Day) 2001. [30] |
More images | Special Operations Executive Memorial Violette Szabo | Lambeth Palace Road, opposite entrance to Lambeth Palace | 2009 | Karen Newman | Bust | — | Unveiled 4 October 2009 by the Duke of Wellington. [31] | |
More images | Statue of Mary Seacole | Outside St Thomas' Hospital | 2009 | Martin Jennings | Statue | Bronze | — | Unveiled 30 June 2016 by Floella Benjamin. [32] [33] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | South Bank Lion | Outside County Hall 51°30′03″N0°07′11″W / 51.5009°N 0.1198°W | 1837 (restored 1951) | William F. Woodington | Statue | Coade stone | Grade II* | [34] |
The Motorcyclist | Shell Centre | 1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Statue | Cemented iron | — | [35] | |
The Shell Fountain | Courtyard of the Shell Centre 51°30′15″N0°06′59″W / 51.5041°N 0.1163°W | 1959–1963 | Franta Belsky | Fountain with sculpture | Bronze | Grade II | [36] | |
More images | Zemran | First floor terrace, Royal Festival Hall | 1971 | William Pye | Sculpture | Stainless steel | Grade II | [37] |
More images | Statue of Fryderyk Chopin | Royal Festival Hall | 1975 | Bronisław Kubica | Statue | Bronze | — | [38] |
Jubilee Oracle | Next to Jubilee Gardens | 1980 | "Alexander" | Sculpture | Bronze | — | [39] | |
Passage Paving | Outside Royal Festival Hall | 1983 | Richard Harris | Sculpture | Concrete | — | [40] | |
Pend | Outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 1983–1984 | Anne Nicholson | Sculpture | Portland stone | — | [41] | |
Arena | Walkway near the Royal National Theatre | 1983–1988 | John Maine | Sculpture | Stone | — | [42] | |
More images | International Brigades Memorial | Outside County Hall | 1985 | Ian Walters | Sculptural group | Bronze | — | [43] |
More images | London Pride | Outside the National Theatre 51°30′27″N0°06′53″W / 51.507617°N 0.114764°W | 1987 cast of a work of 1951 | Frank Dobson | Sculptural group | Bronze | Grade II | [44] |
More images | Bust of Nelson Mandela | Outside the Royal Festival Hall | 1988 replica of an original of 1982 | Ian Walters | Bust | Bronze | — | [45] |
More images | Statue of Laurence Olivier | Outside the National Theatre | 2007 | Angela Conner | Statue | Bronze | — | Unveiled 22 May 2007, the centenary of Olivier's birth. [46] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Stockwell War Memorial | Stockwell Road 51°28′23″N0°07′19″W / 51.4730°N 0.1220°W | 1920 | Frank T. Dear | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | [47] |
More images | Swan tile motif | Stockwell tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | Abram Games | Tile motif | — | [48] | |
Tradescant Family Memorial John Tradescant the Elder John Tradescant the Younger | St Stephen's Terrace | 1988 | Hilary Cartmel | Sculpture | — | [49] | ||
Stockwell Memorial Mural | Stockwell Memorial Gardens | 2001 | Brian Barnes and Myra Harris | Mural | Household paint | — | [50] | |
More images | Bronze Woman | Stockwell Memorial Gardens | 2008 | Aleix Barbat, after Ian Walters | Statue | Bronze | — | [51] |
Memorial to Jean Charles de Menezes | Outside Stockwell tube station | 7 January 2010 | Mary Edwards | Mosaic | — | [52] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Dyce Drinking Fountain | Streatham Green 51°25′42″N0°07′53″W / 51.4283°N 0.1315°W | 1862 | William Dyce | Drinking fountain | Portland stone, red sandstone and marble | Grade II | [53] |
More images | Streatham War Memorial | Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51°25′24″N0°07′46″W / 51.4233°N 0.1294°W | 1921 | Albert Toft | Statue | Bronze | Grade II | Unveiled 14 October 1922. [54] |
War memorial | St Peter's Church, Leigham Court Road 51°25′55″N0°06′55″W / 51.4319°N 0.1153°W | 1922 | ? | Calvary cross | Bronze, wood and stone | Grade II | Unveiled 15 January 2022. [55] | |
Streatham Civilians War Memorial | Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51°25′23″N0°07′54″W / 51.4231°N 0.1316°W | 2006 | Ekkehard Altenburger | War memorial pillar | Kilkenny limestone | — | Unveiled 21 October 2006. Inscribed GRIEF HAS NO BOUNDARIES, a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra. [56] [57] [58] | |
Charioteer with 4 horses | Caesar's Night Club, Streatham Hill | — | Removed in 2010 on closure of the nightclub. Current location unknown. Building demolished 2015. |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Agriculture, Engineering and Pottery | Vauxhall Bridge | 1907 | F. W. Pomeroy | Statues | ||||
More images | Following the Leader Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz | Darley House, Vauxhall Gardens Estate, Laud Street 51°29′17″N0°07′12″W / 51.488036°N 0.120039°W | 1949 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [59] |
More images | Boys Playing Football | Wareham House, South Lambeth Estate, Fentiman Road 51°28′50″N0°07′08″W / 51.480521°N 0.118925°W | 1951–1952 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [60] |
More images | Mother and Children Playing | Horton House, South Lambeth Estate 51°28′51″N0°07′11″W / 51.480854°N 0.119853°W | 1951–1952 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Relief | Coloured concrete | Grade II | [61] |
More images | Vauxhall Gardens tile motif | Vauxhall tube station, Victoria line platforms | c. 1971 | George Smith | Murals | Tiles | — | [62] |
More images | Bust of Basaveshwara | Albert Embankment, opposite the junction with Tinworth Street | 2015 | Sridhar Murthy | Bust | Bronze | — | Unveiled 14 November 2015 by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. [63] [64] |
Underline | Vauxhall tube station | Giles Round, Design Work Leisure | Murals | Tiles | — | [65] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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More images | War memorial | St John's Church 51°30′16″N0°06′45″W / 51.5045°N 0.1124°W | 1919 | ? | Crucifix | Bronze and wood | Grade II | [66] |
More images | Victory Arch London and South Western Railway War Memorial | Entrance arch of Waterloo station 51°30′14″N0°06′50″W / 51.503752°N 0.113879°W | 1919–1922 | Charles Whiffen | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | Opened 21 March 1922. [67] [68] |
More images | The Sunbathers | Waterloo station 51°30′11″N0°06′43″W / 51.503°N 0.112°W | 1951 | Peter Laszlo Peri | Sculpture | "Pericrete" concrete | Originally created in 1951 for the Festival of Britain, the sculpture was believed lost after the festival. It was rediscovered in 2016, was restored, and has been displayed at Waterloo station since 2020. [69] | |
Memorial to Eva Hubback | Morley College | 1963 | David Rowles-Chapman | Relief | Stone | — | [70] | |
More images | Blake's Lambeth | Tunnels alongside Archbishop's Park, near Waterloo station | 2005–2015 | Southbank Mosaics after William Blake | Mosaics | Mosaic | — | 70 mosaics based on the work of Blake, who lived for ten of his most productive years in Lambeth, at 13 Hercules Buildings. [71] |
Mosaic portraits Emma Cons, Violette Szabo, Jude Kelly, Octavia Hill, Lilian Baylis, Mary Seacole, Eva Hubback, Natalie Bell, Margaret Mellor, Heather Rabbatts, Mrs Mallet, Annie McCall, Caroline Martineau, Hester Thrale | Morley College | 2012 | Southbank Mosaics | Mosaics | Mosaic | — | Unveiled 3 July 2012. [72] | |
More images | Battle of Waterloo Memorial | Waterloo station 51°30′12″N0°06′42″W / 51.5033°N 0.1117°W | 2015 | Jason Brooks | War memorial | — | Unveiled 10 June 2015 by the Duke of Wellington. The bronze plaque is based on the reverse of the Waterloo Medal. [73] | |
More images | National Windrush Monument | Waterloo station | 2022 | Basil Watson | Sculptural group | Bronze | — | Unveiled 22 June 2022 (Windrush Day) by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Figures of a man, a woman and a child in their Sunday best stand atop a pile of bulging suitcases. [74] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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West Norwood War Memorial | St Luke's Church, Knight's Hill 51°25′57″N0°06′12″W / 51.4326°N 0.1034°W | after 1918 | ? | Memorial cross | Stone | Grade II | [75] |
Lambeth is a London borough in South London, England, which forms part of Inner London. Its name was recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha and in 1255 as Lambeth. The geographical centre of London is at Frazier Street near Lambeth North tube station, though nearby Charing Cross on the other side of the Thames in the City of Westminster is traditionally considered the centre of London.
Lambeth is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. Lambeth was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey. It is situated 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Charing Cross, across the river from Westminster Palace. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area experienced some slight growth in the medieval period as part of the manor of Lambeth Palace. By the Victorian era the area had seen significant development as London expanded, with dense industrial, commercial and residential buildings located adjacent to one another. The changes brought by World War II altered much of the fabric of Lambeth. Subsequent development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has seen an increase in the number of high-rise buildings. The area is home to the International Maritime Organization. Lambeth is home to one of the largest Portuguese-speaking communities in the UK, and Portuguese is the second most commonly spoken language in Lambeth after English.
Lambeth was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in south London, England. It was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of Lambeth became a metropolitan borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council.
The South Bank Lion is an 1837 sculpture in Central London. Since 1966 it has stood next to County Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is a significant depiction of a lion, along with the four that surround Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square just across the river.
Lambeth Town Hall, also known as Brixton Town Hall, is a municipal building at the corner of Brixton Hill and Acre Lane, Brixton, London. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Lambeth London Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Platforms Piece consists of four bronze sculptures of commuters at Brixton railway station by the British artist Kevin Atherton. The original three sculptures were completed in 1986 with a fourth statue, Joy II, added in 2023.
Streatham War Memorial is a war memorial to the war dead of the London district of Streatham in the two World Wars. It was unveiled in 1922, and is sited near the northwest corner of Streatham Common, London Borough of Lambeth, England.