This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Greenwich .
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Hermes | Winter Garden 51°27′01″N0°04′35″E / 51.45024°N 0.07627°E | 1889 | c.After Giambologna | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [1] [2] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Borough of Greenwich War Memorial | Corner of Charlton Way and Maze Hill 51°28′31″N0°00′35″E / 51.4752°N 0.0097°E | 1922 | ? | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 11 November 1922. [3] | |
St John the Evangelist's Church War Memorial | East end of St John the Evangelist's churchyard, Stratheden Road 51°28′33″N0°01′09″E / 51.4758°N 0.01904°E | 1922 | J. B. L. Tolhurst (designer); Hoare and Sons (sculptors) | Memorial cross | Portland stone | 5.3 m | c.Grade II | Unveiled 11 November 1922. [4] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Charlton War Memorial | Green opposite St Luke's Church 51°28′53″N0°02′09″E / 51.4814°N 0.0358°E | 1920 | R. G. Hoare, after Reginald Blomfield | Memorial cross | Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 31 October 1920. A modified version of Blomfield's Cross of Sacrifice design. [5] | |
More images | Statue of Sam Bartram | The Valley 51°29′12″N0°02′08″E / 51.4867°N 0.0355°E | 2005 | Anthony Hawken | Statue | Bronze | — | Unveiled 9 June 2005. [6] | |
Portage | Charlton House Peace Garden 51°28′49″N0°02′15″E / 51.48029°N 0.03744°E | 2006 | Margaret Higginson | Statue | — | Inspired by the Amnesty International campaign "Stop Violence Against Women". [7] | |||
Thames Barrier Memorial | Thames Barrier 51°29′38″N0°02′15″E / 51.49397°N 0.03739°E | 2018 | Memorial | — | Memorial to those who have worked on the Thames Barrier and other Thames flood defences. [8] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to Margaret McMillan | Rachel McMillan Nursery School, McMillan Street 51°28′53″N0°01′23″W / 51.48136°N 0.02296°W | 1932 | Herbert Baker (architect) | Stone on brick plinth | Grade II | [9] | |||
More images | Memorial to Peter the Great | Glaisher Street 51°29′00″N0°01′08″W / 51.48333°N 0.01889°W | 2001 | Mihail Chemiakin | Statue | — | [10] | ||
His and Hers | Junction of Deptford High Street and Griffin Street 51°28′40″N0°01′33″W / 51.4779°N 0.0257°W | 2002 | Patricio Forrester | Mural | Masonry paint | — | Refurbished 2016. [11] [12] | ||
Memorial to the Battle of Deptford Bridge | Deptford Bridge 51°28′17″N0°00′53″W / 51.471488°N 0.014639°W | 2017 | Gary Drostle | Sundial mosaic bench | — | [13] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Holy Trinity Church War Memorial | Holy Trinity churchyard, Southend Crescent 51°26′54″N0°03′51″E / 51.4484°N 0.0641°E | after 1918 | ? | Crucifix | Stone and bronze | — | [14] | ||
More images | Eltham War Memorial | St John the Baptist's Church, High Street 51°27′04″N0°03′05″E / 51.4510°N 0.0514°E | 1924 | Reginald Blomfield | Memorial cross | Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 9 November 1924. Adapted from Blomfield's much-used Cross of Sacrifice design; he was present at the unveiling. [15] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Statue of George II | Old Royal Naval College 51°29′01″N0°00′21″W / 51.48361°N 0.00595°W | 1735 | John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | Grade II | [16] | ||
More images | The Immortality of Nelson | Nelson Pediment, Old Royal Naval College 51°28′58″N0°00′20″W / 51.48267°N 0.00563°W | 1809–1812 | Benjamin West and Joseph Panzetta | Architectural relief sculpture | Coade stone | Grade I | [17] [18] | |
Bust of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Queen's House | 1835 | Francis Leggatt Chantrey | Bust | Marble | [19] | |||
More images | Statue of William IV | King William Walk 51°28′48″N0°00′24″W / 51.47989°N 0.00654°W | 1845 | Samuel Nixon | Statue | Foggin Tor Devon granite | Grade II | Erected 18–19 December 1844 on King William Street in the City of London; taken down in 1935 and re-erected here, on a smaller pedestal, the following year. The principal work of this sculptor, who received insufficient recompense from the work's commissioners and came close to financial ruin. [20] | |
More images | Memorial to Joseph René Bellot | Cutty Sark Gardens 51°29′01″N0°00′28″W / 51.48364°N 0.00786°W | 1855 | Philip Hardwick | Obelisk | Grade II | [16] | ||
More images | Memorial to the New Zealand Campaign (1863–1864) | King William Walk 51°29′00″N0°00′33″W / 51.4833°N 0.0091°W | 1874 | Andrew Clarke | Obelisk | granite | 50 ft high | Grade II | [21] [22] [23] |
Busts of naval heroes | Pepys Building, Old Royal Naval College 51°28′59″N0°00′31″W / 51.48295°N 0.00874°W | 1874–1883 | Charles Raymond Smith | Reliefs | Grade II | Portrait medallions with busts of the following:
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More images | Statue of General James Wolfe | Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich Park 51°28′40″N0°00′03″W / 51.47782°N 0.00085°W | 1930 | Robert Tait McKenzie | Statue | Grade II | [25] | ||
More images | Statue of Walter Raleigh | Old Royal Naval College 51°28′59″N0°00′31″W / 51.48306°N 0.00867°W | 1959 | William McMillan | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 28 October 1959 in Whitehall by the US Ambassador John Hay Whitney. [26] Moved to this site in 2001 [27] as it was out of scale with other statues which had since been erected nearby. [28] The statue is close to the Discover Greenwich entrance within the grounds of the ORNC. | ||
Mermaid | University of Greenwich | 1959 | ? | Statue | Silicon bronze | — | [29] | ||
More images | Large Standing Figure (Knife Edge) | Greenwich Park 51°28′31″N0°00′04″W / 51.4752°N 0.0011°W | 1961–1978 | Henry Moore | Sculpture | — | [30] | ||
More images | Dolphin Dial | Titanic Memorial Garden, Royal Observatory 51°28′40″N0°00′07″W / 51.47779°N 0.00190°W | 1977–1978 | Christopher St John Daniel and Edwin Russell | Equinoctial sundial with sculpture | Bronze | — | Unveiled 5 June 1978 and moved to this site in 2009. Daniel was Head of Education Services at the National Maritime Museum; the work was commissioned to mark the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. [31] | |
Greenwich Mural | Glenister Green, Woolwich Road 51°29′11″N0°00′40″E / 51.48646°N 0.011124°E | 1972 | Philippa Threlfall and Kennedy Collings | Mural | Glazed and unglazed ceramic and stone | — | Depicts the maritime history of Greenwich. One of the earliest large-scale murals to be produced by the artists. [32] Commissioned for the former Greenwich District Hospital, it was moved to its current location and restored in 2007. [33] | ||
More images | Statue of Captain James Cook | National Maritime Museum 51°28′50″N0°00′17″W / 51.48051°N 0.0048°W | 1994 | Arthur Weller | Statue | — | [34] | ||
More images | Prime Meridian marker | Royal Observatory | 1999 | Christina Garzia | Sculpture | — | |||
More images | Millennium Sundial | Greenwich Park 51°28′53″N0°00′05″W / 51.48133°N 0.00151°W | 2000 | Christopher St John Daniel | Sundial | — | [35] | ||
More images | The Throne of Earthly Kings | Devonport House 51°28′50″N0°00′26″W / 51.4806°N 0.0073°W | 2004 | François Hameury | Sculpture | — | [36] | ||
More images | Statue of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Trafalgar Tavern 51°29′04″N0°00′16″W / 51.4845°N 0.0045°W | 2009 | Lesley Povey | Statue | Bronze | — | [37] | |
More images | Monument for a Dead Parrot | University of Greenwich 51°28′52″N0°00′28″W / 51.4811°N 0.0077°W | 2009 | John Reardon | Sculpture | Bronze (spray-painted) | — | [38] | |
More images | Nelson's Ship in a Bottle | National Maritime Museum 51°28′49″N0°00′19″W / 51.48030°N 0.00531°W | 2010 | Yinka Shonibare | Sculpture | — | Originally a temporary installation on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, it has been at the National Maritime Museum since 2012 [39] | ||
More images | Statue of Yuri Gagarin | Royal Observatory 51°28′38″N0°00′08″W / 51.4773°N 0.0023°W | 2011 | Anatoly Novikov | Statue | Zinc alloy | — | [40] | |
More images | Encompass | Greenwich Market 51°28′53″N0°00′34″W / 51.48144°N 0.00952°W | 2016 | Michael Speller | Sculpture | Bronze | 2.4m | — | Unveiled 4 April 2016 by the Duke of York. [41] Commissioned by Greenwich Hospital, the Crown Charity. Made from bronze, it is a 2.4m sphere made from 210 figures, depicting sailors as they climb a ship's rigging. |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | East Greenwich Gas Works War Memorial | West Parkside Road 51°29′43″N0°00′44″E / 51.4953°N 0.0121°E | 1926 | ? | War memorial | Grey Aberdeen granite | Grade II | Unveiled 18 September 1926. [42] | |
More images | Quantum Cloud | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′07″N0°00′33″E / 51.50185°N 0.00913°E | 2000 | Antony Gormley | Sculpture | — | Created for the millennium celebrations, now part of The Line art trail | ||
More images | A Slice of Reality | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′15″N0°00′01″W / 51.50418°N 0.00028°W | 2000 | Richard Wilson | Sculpture | — | Created for the millennium celebrations, now part of The Line art trail [43] | ||
More images | Liberty Grip | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′16″N0°00′18″E / 51.50437°N 0.00509°E | 2008 | Gary Hume | Sculpture | — | Part of The Line art trail [44] | ||
More images | Here | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′11″N0°00′05″W / 51.50316°N 0.00146°W | 2013 | Thomson & Craighead | Sculpture | — | Part of The Line art trail [45] | ||
More images | A Bullet from a Shooting Star | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′04″N0°00′02″W / 51.50124°N 0.00057°W | 2015 | Alex Chinneck | Sculpture | — | Part of The Line art trail [46] | ||
Lenticular Dazzle Camouflage | Greenwich Peninsula 51°29′38″N0°00′26″E / 51.493905°N 0.007183°E | 2016 | Conrad Shawcross | Sculpture | metal | 49 m high | — | Part of the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre, and inspired by dazzle camouflage [47] | |
More images | Hydra and Kali | Greenwich Peninsula 51°29′56″N0°00′46″E / 51.49875°N 0.01264°E | 2016 | Damien Hirst | Sculpture | metal | — | Formerly part of Hirst's 2017 exhibition Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable in Venice [48] | |
More images | Mermaid | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′09″N0°00′25″E / 51.50257°N 0.00682°E | 2017 | Damien Hirst | Sculpture | metal | — | Formerly part of Hirst's 2017 exhibition Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable in Venice [48] | |
Head in the Wind | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′06″N0°00′25″E / 51.50176°N 0.00683°E | 2019 | Allen Jones | Sculpture | 8 metres (26 ft) | — | [49] | ||
More images | Demon with Bowl | Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′00″N0°00′32″E / 51.50012°N 0.00902°E | 2023 | Damien Hirst | Sculpture | 60 feet (18 m) | — | [50] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | Men of St Peter's War Memorial | Courtlands Avenue 51°27′24″N0°01′21″E / 51.4567°N 0.0226°E | 1920 | Hatchard Smith and Son (designers); Farmer and Brindley (sculptors) | Memorial cross | Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 15 May 1920. [51] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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More images | 8th London Howitzer Brigade War Memorial | Plumstead Common 51°28′55″N0°04′32″E / 51.4819°N 0.0756°E | 1922 | ? | War memorial | Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 7 October 1922. [52] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Christ Church War Memorial | Churchyard of Christ Church 51°27′54″N0°03′26″E / 51.4649°N 0.0572°E | 1922 | ? | Memorial cross | Stone | — | Unveiled 8 October 1922. [53] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Byron Close Arches | Byron Close, arches under Carlyle Road 51°30′09″N0°07′11″E / 51.5025°N 0.1198°E | 2018 | Rebecca Sutherland | Sculpture | Concrete | ? | — | Won the Wayfinding & Environmental Graphics category in the Design Week Awards 2018.[ [54] |
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Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of a Barbarian or Deus Lunus | Royal Arsenal Brass Foundry, No 1 Street 51°29′32″N0°04′10″E / 51.49235°N 0.06939°E | late-Roman period (1st–3rd century AD) | ? | Roman statue | Turkish marble | — | Dug up by British troops in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1801 and shipped to Woolwich | ||
Crucifix | St Mary's Gardens, Greenlaw Street 51°29′36″N0°03′32″E / 51.4932°N 0.05881313°E | 18th–19th century? | ? | crucifix | wood | — | Originally part of the church interior; moved here in 1966 | ||
More images | Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Royal Arsenal, Wellington Park 51°29′37″N0°04′26″E / 51.49354°N 0.07388°E | 1848 | Thomas Milnes | statue on pedestal | marble, Portland stone (plinth) | Grade II | Originally at the Tower of London, moved to the Arsenal in 1863 | |
More images | Tom Cribb's tomb | St Mary's Gardens, Woolwich Church Street 51°29′36″N0°03′37″E / 51.493357°N 0.06018106°E | 1851 | ? | statue | stone | Grade II | A lion resting its paw on an urn | |
More images | Crimean War Memorial | Royal Artillery Barracks, south end of parade ground 51°29′06″N0°03′38″E / 51.48513°N 0.06050292°E | 1861 | John Bell | statue with pedestal surrounded by 12 cannon-bollards | bronze and stone | 3 m (without pediment) | Grade II | The figure of a woman distributing laurel wreaths, Honour, was cast from a Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol |
More images | Major Little Memorial | Woolwich Common, Academy Rd / Ha-ha Road 51°28′55″N0°03′41″E / 51.482047°N 0.06133977°E | 1861? | ? | obelisk | stone | Grade II | ||
More images | Second Boer War Memorial | Grand Depot Road, opposite Royal Artillery Barracks 51°29′03″N0°03′45″E / 51.48416°N 0.06237°E | 1902? | ? | obelisk | granite | Grade II | Memorial to the men of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) | |
More images | Statue of Alexander McLeod | Former Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society building, 125–161 Powis Street 51°29′32″N0°03′47″E / 51.49225°N 0.06318°E | 1903 | Alfred Drury | Statue in niche | Coade stone or terracotta? | Grade II | [55] | |
World War I memorial | Royal Arsenal, Grand Store, Cadogan Road 51°29′39″N0°04′24″E / 51.494216°N 0.07334383°E | 1919? | ? | relief | stone | — | |||
Maritime history of Woolwich | Woolwich Dockyard, Thames Path at Mast Pond Wharf 51°29′40″N0°03′22″E / 51.49444°N 0.05607°E | 1984–86 | community project | mosaic floor piece (damaged) | ceramic tesserae | — | The mosaics are the result of a community project led by the National Elfrida Rathbone Society through an arts workshop based at the Clock House Community Centre | ||
Workers of Woolwich | Woolwich Arsenal station, platform 1 51°29′23″N0°04′12″E / 51.48971°N 0.06998°E | 1993 | Martin Williams | relief | terracotta | — | The work was commissioned by British Rail's Community Unit with the University of Greenwich and Greenwich Council, and is a tribute to the tens of thousands of workers at the Royal Arsenal | ||
The Woolwich Ship | Plumstead Road, opposite the Royal Arsenal 51°29′28″N0°04′15″E / 51.491106°N 0.07086162°E | 1999 | Tom Grimsey | sculpture | steel | — | The sculpture celebrates the naval history of Woolwich; commissioned by Woolwich Development Agency & Greenwich Council | ||
History of Woolwich Dockyard | Woolwich Church Street, Kingsman Parade pedestrian tunnel 51°29′34″N0°03′21″E / 51.49290°N 0.05573°E | 2000 | Stephen Lobb, Greenwich Mural Workshop & pupils of Cardwell Primary School | mosaic mural | ceramic tesserae | — | The mosaics are the result of a project by the Greenwich Mural Workshop, with Stephen Lobb as the senior artist, working with Cardwell Primary School | ||
More images | Assembly | Royal Arsenal, James Clavell Square 51°29′41″N0°04′12″E / 51.49485°N 0.070059°E | 2001 | Peter Burke | group of 16 statues | cast iron | 188cm | — | |
Memorial to Dial Square, Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Arsenal Football Clubs | Royal Arsenal, outside the Dial Arch pub 51°29′33″N0°04′11″E / 51.492502°N 0.06978873°E | c. 2005 | ? | sculpture | bronze, stone | — | |||
Street Life | Woolwich Arsenal station, Green's End / Beresford Square 51°29′27″N0°04′07″E / 51.490755°N 0.06852809°E | 2008 | Michael Craig-Martin | ceramic art, mural | ceramic | extends over two storeys | — | More than 2500 individually screen-printed tiles by Manor Architectural Ceramics in Warwick | |
More images | Statue of Nike, goddess of victory | Royal Arsenal, No 1 Street, Main Guardhouse 51°29′31″N0°04′10″E / 51.49196°N 0.06938°E | 9 Sept 2012 | Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis | statue | bronze | — | A gift of the people of Olympia to commemorate the 30th Olympiad in London in 2012 | |
More images | Woolwich Buddy Bear | General Gordon Square 51°29′24″N0°04′03″E / 51.490046°N 0.06737977°E | 27 May 2016 | Michele Petit-Jean (after a design by pupils of Eltham Hill School) | statue | fibreglass | — | Celebrating the 50th anniversary of friendship between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf |