List of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The statue of Charles II by Grinling Gibbons at Royal Hospital Chelsea

This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .

Map of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Belgravia

See the list of public art in Belgravia.

Brompton

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman	Brompton Oratory	1895	Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud	Statue under canopy	Campanella marble and Portland stone	Grade II	Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner. [1]

Chelsea

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Charles II	Royal Hospital, Figure Court 51°29′14″N0°09′28″W / 51.4871°N 0.1577°W / 51.4871; -0.1577 (Charles II)	1676	Grinling Gibbons	Statue	Gilt bronze	Grade I	Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat, presented to the King in 1682 and installed in the Royal Hospital in 1692. Gilding removed 1782 and restored 2002. [2]
	Millar Obelisk	King's Road, Dovehouse Green	1751	?	Obelisk		—	[3]
	Chillianwallah Memorial	Royal Hospital, South Grounds	1853	Charles Robert Cockerell	Obelisk		Grade II	[4]
	Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids	The Pheasantry, King's Road	1881	Amédée Joubert	Architectural sculptures		Grade II	[5]
	Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain	Hans Place	late 19th century	Joseph Whitehead and Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion)	Drinking fountain with relief sculpture		—	Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place. [6]
	Christ, the Apostles, bishop, king and an angel with the Shield of the Trinity	Over entrance to Holy Trinity, Sloane Street	1890	John Dando Sedding	Architectural sculpture (relief)		Grade I
More images	Chelsea War Memorial	Sloane Square 51°29′33″N0°09′25″W / 51.4926°N 0.1570°W / 51.4926; -0.1570 (Chelsea War Memorial)	1920	Reginald Blomfield	Cross		Grade II	Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design. [7]
	Fountain	Wellington Square	1926	?	Fountain with sculpture		—	[8]
	Portrait roundel of William Friese-Greene	King's Road, outside No. 208	1934	Newbury Abbot Trent	Architectural sculpture		—	[9]
	Statue of Nell Gwyn	Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue			Architectural sculpture		—	[10]
More images	Venus Fountain	Sloane Square	1953	Gilbert Ledward	Fountain with sculpture	Bronze	Grade II	Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe. [11]
	Girl with Doves	Cadogan Square	1970	David Wynne	Statue	Bronze	—
	The Dancers	Cadogan Square	1971	David Wynne	Sculptural group	Bronze	—	[12]
	Dancer with Bird	Cadogan Square	1974	David Wynne	Statue	Bronze	—	[12]
	Young Girl	Sloane Gardens	1980	Karin Jonzen	Statue	Bronze	—	[13]
	The In-Pensioner	Royal Hospital, North Front	2000	Philip Jackson	Statue	Bronze	—	Unveiled 4 May 2000. [14]
	My Children	Duke of York Square	2002	Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal)	Sculptures	Bronze	—	The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square. [15]
More images	Statue of Hans Sloane	Duke of York Square	2005	Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack	Statue	Portland stone	—	Unveiled 14 June 2007. [16] [17]
	Chelsea Arts Club frontages	143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB 51°29′17″N0°10′29″W / 51.48806°N 0.17472°W / 51.48806; -0.17472	various	various	Murals		—	[18] [19] [20]

Chelsea Embankment

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to George Sparks	Chelsea Embankment, outside Chelsea Old Church	1880	Charles Barry Jr.	Drinking fountain		—	[21]
More images	Statue of Thomas Carlyle	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street 51°29′00″N0°10′09″W / 51.4832°N 0.1691°W / 51.4832; -0.1691 (Thomas Carlyle)	1882	Joseph Edgar Boehm	Statue	Bronze statue on red granite pedestal	Grade II	[22]
More images	Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house) 51°29′01″N0°09′57″W / 51.4837°N 0.1658°W / 51.4837; -0.1658 (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Memorial)	1887	Ford Madox Brown (bust)	Drinking fountain with bust	Grey granite and bronze	Grade II	Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Designed by the architect John Pollard Seddon; Rossetti had died in Seddon's cottage in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1882. [23]
More images	Carabiniers Boer War Memorial	Built into the railings of Ranelagh Gardens, opposite Chelsea Bridge	1905	Adrian Jones	Screen with relief panels	Red brick, Portland stone and bronze	—	[24]
	Awakening	Roper's Gardens	1915	Gilbert Ledward	Statue	Bronze	—	Installed on this site in 1965. [25]
More images	Atalanta	Near Albert Bridge	1929	Francis Derwent Wood	Statue	Bronze	Grade II	Based on a plaster sculpture of 1907 and one in marble of 1909. A bronze was installed on this site in 1929. [26]
More images	Woman Removing Her Dress	Roper's Gardens	1950	Jacob Epstein	Bas relief	Portland stone	—	Unveiled 3 June 1972. [27] [28]
More images	Statue of Thomas More	Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk	1968	Leslie Cubitt Bevis	Statue		—	Unveiled 21 July 1969. [29]
More images	The Boy David	Chelsea Embankment Gardens, east of Oakley Street	1971	Edward Bainbridge Copnall after Francis Derwent Wood	Statuette on column	Fibreglass statuette on a pink granite column	—	Unveiled 8 May 1971. Previously Wood's half-size model of the figure for his Machine Gun Corps Memorial stood here; this was stolen in 1969. [30]
More images	Boy with a Dolphin	Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street	1974	David Wynne	Sculptural group	Bronze	—	Unveiled 13 October 1975. [31]
More images	Statue of James McNeill Whistler	Whistler's Reach, near Battersea Bridge	2003	Nicholas Dimbleby	Statue	Bronze	—	Unveiled 15 September 2005. [32]
More images	Bust of Ralph Vaughan Williams	Chelsea Embankment Gardens	2012	Marcus Cornish	Bust		—	Unveiled 5 September 2012. [33]
More images	Statue of Hans Sloane	Chelsea Physic Garden	2014	Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack	Statue	Portland stone	—	Unveiled 28 April 2014 by Lord Cadogan, a descendant of Sloane's. [34] Based on Rysbrack's marble original of 1733, moved from this site to the British Museum in 1983. This replica is the third to stand here; its predecessors in fibreglass and jesmonite both deteriorated quickly. [35]

Kensington

See the list of public art in Kensington and the list of public art in Kensington Gardens.

Knightsbridge

See the list of public art in Knightsbridge.

Ladbroke Grove

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash	Canal Way	2001	Richard Healy	Stele	—	[36]

References

1. "Cardinal Newman, Statue, Brompton Oratory Complex". National Recording Project. PMSA. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
2. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 18
3. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 20
4. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 19
5. "Simon's Walks – At Home In Chelsea". At Home In Chelsea. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
6. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 37
7. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 31
8. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 26
9. "William Friese Greene". London Remembers. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
10. "Rooftop Statues".
11. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 30
12. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 33
13. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 28
14. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 17
15. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 27
16. Sir Hans Sloane statue. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
17. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 29
18. "JtChatter".
19. "Chelsea Arts Club | Patrick Baty – Historical paint consultant".
20. "Chelsea Arts Club.. | BEGG". Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
21. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 8
22. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 9
23. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 13
24. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 16
25. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 1
26. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 10
27. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 2
28. Evelyn Silber (1986). The Sculpture of Epstein with a complete catalogue. Phaidon. ISBN   0714822620.
29. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 6
30. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 12
31. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 11
32. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 4
33. "Ralph Vaughan Williams – bust". London Remembers. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
34. "Sir Hans Sloane Statue – Chelsea Physic Garden". Simon Smith Stone Carving. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
35. Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 15
36. Matthews 2018, p. 225

Bibliography

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

• Nolan, David; Starren, Caroline (2012), On Public View: A journey around the sculpture of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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  • 80–93 (PDF)

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea at Wikimedia Commons