List of public art in the London Borough of Camden
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Camden.
Bloomsbury
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Camden Town
Main article: Camden Town |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Richard Cobden | Camden High Street 51°32′05″N 0°08′20″W / 51.53474°N 0.13891°W |
1868 | Wills Brothers | N/A | Statue | Grade II | [3] |
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Matilda Fountain Matilda Kent |
Gloucester Gate 51°32′08″N 0°08′51″W / 51.53552°N 0.14741°W |
1878 | Joseph Durham | N/A | Fountain with sculpture | Grade II | [27] |
Memorial to Charles Dibdin | St Martin's Gardens | 1889 | ? | N/A | Celtic cross | Grade II | [28] | |
Generations | Maitland Park Villas 51°32′51.5″N 0°9′22″W / 51.547639°N 0.15611°W |
1971 | Geoffrey Harris | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | [29] | |
Seated figure | Westminster Kingsway College on Longford Street 51°31′34″N 0°08′29″W / 51.526041°N 0.141376°W |
1976 | Jean Bullock | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [30] | |
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Cat statues | Entrance to former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road 51°32′00″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5334°N 0.1395°W |
1996 | N/A | ||||
Black cat motifs | Façade of former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road 51°32′01″N 0°08′23″W / 51.5335°N 0.1398°W |
1996 | N/A | |||||
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Burma Railway Memorial Far East Prisoners of War |
Junction of Crowndale Road, Eversholt Street and Mornington Street | 2012 | Chris Roche (1104 Architects) | War memorial | N/A | Unveiled 21 September 2012[31] by the Viscount Slim, whose father Field Marshal Slim was a commander of the Burma Corps. A granite plaque with an illustration by Ronald Searle, who had been an FEPOW, mounted on a cruciform base of railway sleepers and sections of rail track, alluding to the Burma Railway.[32] | |
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Statue of Amy Winehouse | Camden Stables Market | 2014 | Scott Eaton | N/A | Statue | N/A | [33] |
Horses | Camden Stables Market 51°32′31″N 0°08′50″W / 51.54196°N 0.14729°W |
Sculpture | N/A |
Covent Garden
Main article: List of public art in Covent Garden § London Borough of Camden |
Euston Road
Main article: Euston Road |
Fitzrovia
Main article: Fitzrovia |
Part of Fitzrovia lies outside Camden; for works not listed here see List of public art in St Marylebone#Fitzrovia. |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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"Warren" tile motif | Warren Street tube station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Alan Fletcher | Ceramic mural | N/A | |||
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View | Fitzroy Square 51°31′22.6″N 0°8′22.7″W / 51.522944°N 0.139639°W |
1977 | Naomi Blake | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | |
Fitzrovia Mural | Whitfield Gardens 51°31′15″N 0°08′06″W / 51.520765°N 0.135089°W |
1980 | Simon Barber and Mick Jones | N/A | Mural | N/A | The mural depicts "various unnamed characters of Fitzrovia and greedy speculators". Barber painted the bottom half and Jones (son of the trade unionist Jack Jones) the top half. As of 2013 the work was in poor condition.[45] | |
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Statue of Francisco de Miranda | Corner of Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street | 1990 (after an original of 1895) | After Rafael de la Cova | N/A | Statue | N/A | Stands close to 58 Grafton Way ("Casa Miranda"), where the Venezuelan revolutionary lived with his English wife from 1802 to 1810.[46] |
The One and The Many | Fitzroy Place | 2015 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [47] |
Hampstead
Main article: Hampstead |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Virgin and Child | St Mary's Church, on façade of tower 51°33′25″N 0°10′50″W / 51.556967°N 0.18045°W |
1850 | c.William Wardell | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |||
Roebuck | Tympanum of the Roebuck pub, Pond Street 51°33′14″N 0°10′03″W / 51.5538°N 0.1674°W |
Late 1860s | ? | ? | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [48] | |
Drinking fountain | Rosslyn Hill 51°33′18″N 0°10′25″W / 51.554977°N 0.17362°W |
1875 | c.? | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | [49] | |
Drinking fountain William Warburton Pearce |
South End Green 51°33′15″N 0°09′55″W / 51.5542°N 0.1654°W |
1880 | J. H. Evins (designer) | J. Holland (builder) | Drinking fountain | Grade II | [50] | |
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Chalybeate well Susanna Noel |
Well Walk 51°33′33″N 0°10′24″W / 51.559177°N 0.17345°W |
1882 | H. S. Legg | Grade II | |||
Woman | Outside 28A High Street 51°33′21″N 0°10′36″W / 51.55591°N 0.17672°W |
Architectural sculpture | N/A | [51] |
Hampstead Heath
Main article: Hampstead Heath |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Hampstead War Memorial | Junction of Spaniards Road and North End Way 51°33′46″N 0°10′47″W / 51.562792°N 0.179597°W |
1922 | N/A | Reginald Blomfield | Obelisk | Grade II | [52][53] |
Mural | Platforms of Hampstead Heath railway station | 2011 | Johnson Tiles and Clare Woods | N/A | Ceramic mural | N/A | [54] |
Highgate
Main article: Highgate |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet | Waterlow Park 51°34′09″N 0°08′42″W / 51.56919°N 0.14503°W |
1900 | Frank Taubman | N/A | Statue | Grade II | [55] |
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Tomb of Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery 51°33′58″N 0°08′38″W / 51.56623°N 0.14379°W |
1956 | Laurence Bradshaw | N/A | Bust | Grade I | [56] |
Holborn
Main article: Holborn |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Thomas More | Thomas More Chambers, 51 and 52 Carey Street | 1886 | Robert Smith | George Sherrin | Statue in niche | Grade II | [57][58] | |
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Statue of John Bunyan | Baptist Church House, Southampton Row | 1903 | Richard Garbe | Arthur Keen | Statue in niche | Grade II* | [59] |
Statue of Edward I | 114 and 115 High Holborn | c. 1903–1904 | Richard Garbe | Arthur Keen | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
Statue of Edward VII | 114 and 115 High Holborn | c. 1903–1904 | Richard Garbe | Arthur Keen | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | ||
Bust of Charles Dickens | Holborn Bars, High Holborn | 1907 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald | Alfred Waterhouse | Bust | [60] | ||
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Statue of Francis Bacon | South Square, Gray's Inn | 1912 | F. W. Pomeroy | N/A | Statue | Grade II | [61] |
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Memorial to Margaret Ethel MacDonald | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1914 | Richard Reginald Goulden | Memorial seat with sculpture | Grade II | [62] | |
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Lincoln's Inn War Memorial | New Square, Lincoln's Inn | 1921 | War memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 16 March 1921.[63] | ||
Memorial to Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1929 | Arthur George Walker (lost bust) | Edwin Lutyens | Pedestal in the form of a seat | Grade II | [64][65] | |
Bust of John Hunter | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1979 | Nigel Boonham | N/A | Bust | N/A | [66] | |
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Bust of Bertrand Russell | Red Lion Square | 1980 | Marcelle Quinton | N/A | Bust | N/A | [67] |
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Camdonian | Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1980 | Barry Flanagan | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [68] |
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Statue of Fenner Brockway | Red Lion Square | 1985 | Ian Walters | N/A | Statue | N/A | [3] |
Dolphin | Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1989 | Anna Richtner Pentney | Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||
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Square the Block | London School of Economics New Academic Building, corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street 51°30′54″N 0°7′6.8″W / 51.51500°N 0.118556°W |
2009 | Richard Wilson | Architectural sculpture | N/A | [69] | |
Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial | Lincoln's Inn Fields | War memorial | N/A | [70] |
Regent's Park
- Part of Regent's Park lies outside the borough of Camden; for works not listed here see see the list of public art in St Marylebone.
Regent's Park is one of London's Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster.
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Readymoney Drinking Fountain | Broad Walk 51°31′58″N 0°09′03″W / 51.5328°N 0.1507°W |
1869 | Henry Ross | Robert Keirle | Drinking fountain | Grade II | A gift from the Indian industrialist Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck.[71] The fountain straddles the boundary line between Camden and Westminster. |
Swiss Cottage
Main article: Swiss Cottage |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
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Statue of Sigmund Freud | Belsize Lane/Fitzjohns Avenue 51°32′46″N 0°10′32″W / 51.54620°N 0.17560°W |
1970 (current location since 1998) | Oscar Nemon | N/A | Statue | Grade II | [3] |
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