List of public art in the London Borough of Merton

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

Map of public art in the London Borough of Merton

Merton Park

Main article: Merton Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Merton War Memorial	St Mary's churchyard 51°24′37″N0°12′08″W / 51.4104°N 0.2021°W / 51.4104; -0.2021 (Merton War Memorial)	1920 (designed); erected 1921	H. P. Burke Downing	Memorial cross	Grade II	[1]

Mitcham

Main article: Mitcham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Mitcham War Memorial	Lower Green West 51°24′09″N0°10′12″W / 51.4024°N 0.1699°W / 51.4024; -0.1699 (Mitcham War Memorial)	1920	?	Memorial cross	Grade II	Unveiled 21 November 1920. [2]

Morden

Main article: Morden

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Lion and unicorn	Entrance to King George's Field, Tudor Drive, Lower Morden	1940s	?	?	Relief
	Kingfisher	Over exit from Garth Road Recycling Depot	as at March 2012				—

Raynes Park

Main article: Raynes Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Raynes Park War Memorial	St Saviour's churchyard 51°24′20″N0°13′46″W / 51.4055°N 0.2295°W / 51.4055; -0.2295 (Raynes Park War Memorial)	1920–1921 (erected)	T. Mewburn Crook	Arthur Blomfield	Memorial cross	Grade II	[3]

Wimbledon

Main article: Wimbledon, London

Part of Wimbledon lies outside the borough of Merton; for other works located there, see List of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth § Wimbledon

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Diana with a Fawn	Cannizaro Park 51°25′32″N0°13′55″W / 51.4256°N 0.2319°W / 51.4256; -0.2319 (Diana with a Fawn)	1843	?	—	Statue	Grade II	[4]
More images	Joseph Toynbee Memorial Fountain	Wimbledon Hill Road, at the junction with Belvedere Grove 51°25′27″N0°12′56″W / 51.4243°N 0.2156°W / 51.4243; -0.2156 (Joseph Toynbee Memorial Fountain)	1868	—	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	[5]
	Busts of William Shakespeare and John Milton	Outside Wimbledon Library 51°25′20″N0°12′30″W / 51.4222°N 0.2084°W / 51.4222; -0.2084 (Busts of William Shakespeare and John Milton)	1886	?	?	Architectural sculpture		[6]
	Laetitia and globe	On roof of New Wimbledon Theatre 51°25′09″N0°12′06″W / 51.4193°N 0.2016°W / 51.4193; -0.2016 (Laetitia and globe)	1910 (removed for safety in war 1939; reinstated 1991)	?	Cecil Massey and Roy Young	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[7]
	War memorial	St Winefride's Church, Latimer Road 51°25′11″N0°11′38″W / 51.4196°N 0.1938°W / 51.4196; -0.1938 (St Winefride's War Memorial)	After 1918	?	—	Calvary	Grade II	[8]
More images	Wimbledon War Memorial	Parkside 51°25′34″N0°13′20″W / 51.4262°N 0.2223°W / 51.4262; -0.2223 (Wimbledon War Memorial)	1921	Charles Leonard Hartwell	Thomas Graham Jackson	War memorial	Grade II	Unveiled 5 November 1921. [9]
More images	King's Royal Rifle Corps War Memorial	Wimbledon Common 51°26′18″N0°13′49″W / 51.4383°N 0.2302°W / 51.4383; -0.2302 (King's Royal Rifle Corps Memorial)	1929	?	—	War memorial	Grade II	[10]
More images	Statue of Fred Perry	All-England Club 51°26′03″N0°12′49″W / 51.4343°N 0.2135°W / 51.4343; -0.2135 (Statue of Fred Perry)	1984	David Wynne	—	Statue	—	Unveiled by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. [11]
	Concourse	Wimbledon station 51°25′16″N0°12′22″W / 51.42111°N 0.20611°W / 51.42111; -0.20611 (Concourse)	1998	Bruce Williams	—	Sculpture	—	Laser cut images of crowds watching tennis at Wimbledon [12]
	arthur (stag)	Outside Wimbledon station 51°25′16″N0°12′26″W / 51.4212°N 0.2071°W / 51.4212; -0.2071 (arthur (stag))	2012	Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood	—	Sculpture	—	Unveiled 21 June 2012. [13] [14]
	Statue of Sister Nivedita	Outside Ricards Lodge High School, Lake Road 51°25′43″N0°12′15″W / 51.4286°N 0.2042°W / 51.4286; -0.2042 (Statue of Sister Nivedita)	2023	Nirjan De and Sarada Sarkar	—	Statue	—	[15] [16]

References

1. Historic England. "War Memorial (1390833)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
2. Historic England. "Mitcham War Memorial (1448269)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
3. Historic England. "War Memorial, St Saviours Church (1390947)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
4. Historic England. "Statue of Diana with Fawn at extreme north west corner of park (1286374)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
5. Historic England. "Drinking fountain at junction with Belvedere Grove (1080896)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
6. Wimbledon Library
7. History of New Wimbledon Theatre
8. Historic England. "Wimbledon (St Winefride's) War Memorial (1445651)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
9. "Wimbledon (Includes the 1921 mass produced roll of honour)". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
10. Historic England. "Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) War Memorial (1445581)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
11. Matthews 2018, p. 232.
12. "Concourse | Bruce Williams". Axisweb. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
13. "arthur (stag)". Isabelle Zhizhi Southwood. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
14. Stag Sculpture, Wimbledon Station. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
15. Bulmer, Joseph (17 July 2023). "Statue unveiled commemorating life and works of Torrington's Sister Nivedita". North Devon Today. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
16. Goswami, Tarun (15 May 2023). "Sister Nivedita's statue to come up at Wimbledon". The Statesman (India). Retrieved 22 May 2024.

Bibliography

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

External links

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