List of public art in the London Borough of Lewisham

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

Map of public art in the London Borough of Lewisham

Blackheath

Main article: Blackheath, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Lion	Lawn in front of Holly-Hedge House, Wat Tyler Road 51°28′13″N0°00′20″W / 51.4703°N 0.0056°W / 51.4703; -0.0056 (Lion)	Early 19th century	?	—	Sculpture	Grade II	The tablet held by the lion is inscribed NELSON/ CXXII BATTLES. [1]

Brockley

Main article: Brockley

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Saint Mary Magdalene	St Mary Magdalen's Church, Howson Road	c. 1898–1899	?	Young Bolton	Statue in niche	—	[2]
More images	Deptford War Memorial	Junction of Upper Brockley Road and Lewisham Way 51°28′16″N0°01′48″W / 51.4710°N 0.0299°W / 51.4710; -0.0299 (Deptford War Memorial)	1919–1921	William Wheatley Wagstaff	William Roberts	War memorial with sculpture	Grade II	Unveiled 1921 by Major-General Sir Charles Townshend. [3]

Catford

Main article: Catford

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Catford Centre Cat	Rushey Green 51°26′45″N0°01′11″W / 51.4458°N 0.0198°W / 51.4458; -0.0198 (Catford Centre Cat)	1974	Owen Luder/Embassy Signs	Sculpture		[4]
	Pensive Girl	Catford Town Hall	1992	Gerda Rubinstein	Sculpture		[4]
	Water Line	Rushey Green	2006	Oliver Barratt			[5]
	Chariot / Blue on Green	Catford	2006	Oleg Prokofiev			[4]
	Statue of Henry Cooper	Bromley Road	2011–2019	Carl Payne	Statue		The boxer is shown holding his title belts in both hands. [6]
	Statue of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah	Mountsfield Park	2025	Hannah Stewart	Statue		A life-sized statue of the nine-year-old girl who was the first person to have air pollution recorded as a cause of death. [7]

Crofton Park

Main article: Crofton Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	War memorial	St Hilda's Church 51°27′09″N0°02′22″W / 51.4524°N 0.0394°W / 51.4524; -0.0394 (Crofton Park (St Hilda's) War Memorial)	1920	F. H. Greenway and J. E. Newberry	W. Richards (stonemason)	Celtic cross	Grade II	Unveiled 29 May 1920. [8]

Deptford

Main article: Deptford

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	War memorial	St Paul's churchyard 51°28′47″N0°01′33″W / 51.4797°N 0.0258°W / 51.4797; -0.0258 (Deptford (St Paul's) War Memorial)	1920	?	Obelisk	Grade II	Unveiled 24 May 1920 in its original location at the Sandford Estate, Hornshay Street, New Cross. Moved here in 1986. [9]
	Gates	Sayes Court Park	2010	?	Ornamental gates		The motifs of a mulberry stem, leaf and fruit refer to "Evelyn's Mulberry", a tree said to be from the garden of the diarist and horticulturalist John Evelyn. [10]
	Pig sculptures	Thames Walk			Sculptures

Forest Hill

Main article: Forest Hill, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Plaque commemorating the gift of Frederick John Horniman	Horniman Museum, London Road	1901	F. W. Pomeroy	Charles Harrison Townsend	Relief	Grade II*	[11]
	Humanity in the House of Circumstance	Horniman Museum, London Road	c. 1902	Robert Anning Bell	Charles Harrison Townsend	Mosaic	Grade II*	[12]
More images	Totem pole	Horniman Museum gardens	1985	Nathan Jackson	—	Totem pole	—	[13]

Honor Oak

Main article: Honor Oak

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Bridge Parapets (southern road bridge over railway)	Honor Oak 51°26′59″N0°02′46″W / 51.4497°N 0.0462°W / 51.4497; -0.0462 (Bridge Parapets)	1960 c. 1960	William Mitchell				[14]

Lewisham

Main article: Lewisham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Obelisk and drinking fountain	Lewisham Hill	1866	?	—	Obelisk	—	[15] [16]
	Prudentia	Former Prudential Building, 187–197 High Street	1908	F. W. Pomeroy	Paul Waterhouse	Statue in niche	Grade II	[17]
	Lewisham Military Hospital War Memorial	University Hospital Lewisham, High Street 51°27′26″N0°00′54″W / 51.4572°N 0.0151°W / 51.4572; -0.0151 (Lewisham Military Hospital War Memorial)	after 1918	?	—	Memorial stones	—	[18]
	Lewisham War Memorial	Memorial Gardens, High Street 51°27′13″N0°00′58″W / 51.4536°N 0.0160°W / 51.4536; -0.0160 (Lewisham War Memorial)	1921		E. A. Stone	Obelisk	Grade II	Unveiled 7 May 1921. [19]
	St Stephen's Church War Memorial	St Stephen's Church 51°27′51″N0°00′37″W / 51.4641°N 0.0103°W / 51.4641; -0.0103 (St Stephen's Church War Memorial)	1921	?	—	Hooded Calvary cross	Grade II	Unveiled 3 September 1921. [20]
	The Whisper	Bromley Road	1983	André Wallace	—	Sculptural group	—	[21]
	Blue Well	University Hospital Lewisham	2007	Chris Marshall		Sculpture	—	Alludes to the namesake of Ladywell, a well on the medieval pilgrimage route to Canterbury which was renowned for its healing properties. [22]
	Riverside Light Installation	Riverside Building, University Hospital Lewisham	2007	?		Light installation	—	[23]
	Memorial to Asquith Gibbes	Lewisham Police Station	2019	Simon Smith		Relief	—	Unveiled 27 June 2019. Gibbes was the founder of the Lewisham Equality Council, in 1981. [24] Inscribed "Race Equality/ Asquith Gibbes MBE/ 4 November 1934 – 16 July 2013"

New Cross

Main article: New Cross

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of Robert Aske	Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School 51°28′05″N0°02′37″W / 51.4681°N 0.0436°W / 51.4681; -0.0436 (Statue of Robert Aske)	1825	William Croggon	—	Statue	Grade II	[25]
	Francis Drake and Robert Blake	Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road 51°28′31″N0°02′16″W / 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)	1905	Henry Poole	H. V. Lanchester , James Stewart and E. A. Rickards	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	[26]
	Admiral Lord Nelson and an admiral of 1905	Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road 51°28′31″N0°02′16″W / 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)	1905	Henry Poole	H. V. Lanchester , James Stewart and E. A. Rickards	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	[26]
	Water and Wine	Goldsmiths, University of London	1990	Michael Kenny	—	Sculpture	—	[27]
	Black Door	Goldsmiths, University of London		Svein Møxvold	—	Sculpture	—	[28]

Sydenham

Main article: Sydenham, London

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Livesey Hall War Memorial South Suburban Gas Company	Perry Hill, Lower Sydenham 51°25′53″N0°02′14″W / 51.4314°N 0.0372°W / 51.4314; -0.0372 (Livesey Hall War Memorial)	1920	Sydney March		War memorial with sculpture	Grade II	[29]

References

1. Historic England. "Carving on lawn in front of Holly-Hedge House (1194163)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
2. "Brockley – St Mary Magdalen". Taking Stock: Catholic Churches of England & Wales. Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
3. Historic England. "Deptford War Memorial (1406592)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
4. Lewisham Council – Catford public art. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
5. "water line | oliver barratt sculpture". www.oliverbarratt.co.uk.
6. Henry Cooper (1934–2011). Art UK. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
7. Lydall, Ross (4 April 2025). "Statue unveiled of girl whose air pollution death inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez clean air zone". Evening Standard. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
8. Historic England. "Crofton Park (St Hilda's) War Memorial (1449909)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
9. Historic England. "Deptford (St Paul's) War Memorial". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
10. Sayes Court Park Gates. Art UK. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
11. Smith, Charlotte Fell (1912). "Horniman, Frederick John"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 304.
12. Banerjee, Jacqueline. "The Horniman Museum by Charles Harrison Townsend". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
13. Other Horniman Sights to See. Horniman Museum & Gardens. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
14. "Historic filming in Forest Hill – SE23 Forum | Forest Hill & Honor Oak". www.se23.com.
15. Obelisk. Art UK. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
16. "Lewisham". mdfcta.co.uk. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
17. Prudentia. Art UK. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
18. "Lewisham Military Hospital". War Memorials Register. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
19. Historic England. "Lewisham War Memorial, Memorial Gardens (1435882)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
20. Historic England. "St Stephen's Church War Memorial, Lewisham (1437645)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
21. The Whisper. Art UK. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
22. Blue Well. Art UK. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
23. Riverside Light Installation. Art UK. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
24. Simon Smith – Back the Bid!. Lewisham Council. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
25. Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). Macmillan. pp. 866–876. ISBN   978-1-4050-4924-5.
26. Curl, James Stevens (3 December 2023). "Rickards remembered". The Critic. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
27. Water and Wine. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
28. Black Door. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
29. "South Suburban Gas Company". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 9 June 2018.

External links

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