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List of public art in Knightsbridge
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This is a list of public art in Knightsbridge, a district in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
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Stags | Albert Gate 51°30′09″N 0°09′31″W |
before 1839 | Peter Turnerelli after Francesco Bartolozzi | Thomas Cubitt | Statues on gateposts | Grade II | Formerly stood at the Piccadilly entrance to the Deputy Ranger's Lodge in Green Park; Cubitt acquired the stags prior to the building's demolition. The gates and stone piers are twentieth-century replacements for Cubitt's originals of 1844–1845.[1] |
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Drinking fountain | Outside The Lanesborough 51°30′07″N 0°09′09″W |
1860 | ? | — | Drinking fountain | Grade II* (with old hospital building) | One of the earliest gifts of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association; the hotel building behind was originally St George's Hospital, which was felt to be a particularly appropriate location for a drinking fountain.[2] |
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Pediment sculpture | Hyde Park Barracks, South Carriage Drive | 1878–1880 c. 1878–1880 | Thomas Earp | T. H. Wyatt (original setting); Basil Spence (current setting) | Pediment sculpture | — | Salvaged from the riding school of the Victorian Knightsbridge Barracks, which were demolished in 1965.[3] |
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Busts Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, Lord Salisbury and Archbishop Temple |
55–91 Knightsbridge | 1902–1903 c. 1902–1903 | ? | W. D. Caröe | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | The block was built on land belonging to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by Caröe, their architect. The busts are in the pediments of the first-floor windows.[4] |
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Triga | 1 Knightsbridge Green (formerly Caltex House) | 1958 | Franta Belsky | Stone, Toms and Partners (1955–1957) Hurley, Robertson and Associates (2001 refurbishment) |
Sculptural group | — | A reinforced concrete sculpture with metal coating, commemorating Tattersall's racehorse auction yard which formerly stood on this site.[5][6] |
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The Rush of Green or The Bowater House Group | Edinburgh Gate 51°30′09″N 0°09′44″W |
1959 | Jacob Epstein | — | Sculptural group | Grade II | Unveiled April 1961. A mother, father, child and dog, driven by the sound of Pan's pipes, rush towards Hyde Park. Epstein was adding the finishing touches to the group on the night he died.[7] |
The Innocence of Childhood | Raphael Street | 1998 c. 1998 | Richard Kindersley | Hurley, Robertson and Associates | Brick relief | — | Showing a child's-eye view of a busy street, the relief has been severely compromised by the insertion of a window and a door in the wall.[8] | |
Hyde Park Gates | Edinburgh Gate 51°30′08″N 0°09′38″W |
2010 | Wendy Ramshaw | — | Gates | — | Commissioned from the artist and jeweller as part of the One Hyde Park residential development.[9]
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Search for Enlightenment | One Hyde Park 51°30′09″N 0°09′41″W |
2011 | Simon Gudgeon | — | Sculptures | — | Unveiled 19 January 2012 to mark the first anniversary of One Hyde Park.[10] The developers, Candy & Candy, had previously installed a cast of the work at Riverside Walk Gardens, Millbank, in 2011. |
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Façade sculpture | Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, south façade | 1961 | Elisabeth Frink | Michael Rosenhauer | Reliefs | — | Eighteen curved, non-geometric shapes in copper set between three columns.[11] Variously titled Four Season or Bird Forms, this early work of Frink's dissatisfied her soon after its completion and she came to repudiate it.[12] | |
Memorial to the victims of the 1983 Harrods bombing | Harrods | 1985 | George Cook | Stele and plaque | — | The memorial to the police officers killed erected by the Police Memorial Trust, that of the civilians killed by the borough council.[13] |
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