List of public art in the London Borough of Lewisham

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

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Lion	Lawn in front of Holly-Hedge House, Wat Tyler Road 51.4703°N 0.0056°W / 51.4703; -0.0056 (Lion)	Early 19th century	?	Sculpture	Grade II	The tablet held by the lion is inscribed NELSON/ CXXII BATTLES.^[1]
	Jubilee Memorial Drinking Fountain Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria	Tranquil Vale 51.4672°N 0.0066°E / 51.4672; 0.0066	1897	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	^[2]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Saint Mary Magdalene	St Mary Magdalen's Church, Howson Road	c. 1898–1899	?	Young Bolton	Statue in niche	—	^[3]
	War memorial	Outside St Mary Magdalen's Church, junction of Howson Road and Comerford Road 51.4593°N 0.0380°W / 51.4593; -0.0380	1917	?	—	Calvary cross	Grade II	Unveiled 7 July 1917.^[4]
More images	Deptford War Memorial	Junction of Upper Brockley Road and Lewisham Way 51.4710°N 0.0299°W / 51.4710; -0.0299 (Deptford War Memorial)	1919–1921	William Wheatley Wagstaff	William Roberts	War memorial with sculpture	Grade II	Unveiled 1921 by Major-General Sir Charles Townshend.^[5]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Notes
More images	Catford Centre Cat	Rushey Green 51.4458°N 0.0198°W / 51.4458; -0.0198 (Catford Centre Cat)	1974	Owen Luder/Embassy Signs	Sculpture	^[6]
	Pensive Girl	Catford Town Hall	1992	Gerda Rubinstein	Sculpture	^[6]
	Water Line	Rushey Green	2006	Oliver Barratt		^[7]
	Chariot / Blue on Green	Catford	2006	Oleg Prokofiev		^[6]
	Statue of Henry Cooper	Bromley Road	2011–2019	Carl Payne	Statue	The boxer is shown holding his title belts in both hands.^[8]
	Statue of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah	Mountsfield Park	2025	Hannah Stewart	Statue	A life-sized statue of the nine-year-old girl who was the first person to have air pollution recorded as a cause of death.^[9]

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	War memorial	St Paul's churchyard 51.4797°N 0.0258°W / 51.4797; -0.0258 (Deptford (St Paul's) War Memorial)	1920	?	Obelisk	Grade II	Unveiled 24 May 1920 in its original location at the Sandford Estate, Hornshay Street, New Cross. Moved here in 1986.^[11]
	Gates	Sayes Court Park	2010	?	Ornamental gates		The motifs of a mulberry stem, leaf and fruit refer to "Evelyn's Mulberry", a tree said to be from the garden of the diarist and horticulturalist John Evelyn.^[12]
	Pig sculptures	Thames Walk			Sculptures

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Plaque commemorating the gift of Frederick John Horniman	Horniman Museum, London Road	1901	F. W. Pomeroy	Charles Harrison Townsend	Relief	Grade II*	^[13]
	Humanity in the House of Circumstance	Horniman Museum, London Road	c. 1902	Robert Anning Bell	Charles Harrison Townsend	Mosaic	Grade II*	^[14]
More images	Totem pole	Horniman Museum gardens	1985	Nathan Jackson	—	Totem pole	—	^[15]

Blackheath

Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
Obelisk and drinking fountain	Lewisham Hill	1866	?	—	Obelisk	—	^[17]^[18]
Prudentia	Former Prudential Building, 187–197 High Street	1908	F. W. Pomeroy	Paul Waterhouse	Statue in niche	Grade II	^[19]
Lewisham Military Hospital War Memorial	University Hospital Lewisham, High Street 51.4572°N 0.0151°W / 51.4572; -0.0151	after 1918	?	—	Memorial stones	—	^[20]
Lewisham War Memorial	Memorial Gardens, High Street 51.4536°N 0.0160°W / 51.4536; -0.0160 (Lewisham War Memorial)	1921		E. A. Stone	Obelisk	Grade II	Unveiled 7 May 1921.^[21]
St Stephen's Church War Memorial	St Stephen's Church 51.4641°N 0.0103°W / 51.4641; -0.0103 (St Stephen's Church War Memorial)	1921	?	—	Hooded Calvary cross	Grade II	Unveiled 3 September 1921.^[22]
The Whisper	Bromley Road	1983	André Wallace	—	Sculptural group	—	^[23]
Blue Well	University Hospital Lewisham	2007	Chris Marshall		Sculpture	—	Alludes to the namesake of Ladywell, a well on the medieval pilgrimage route to Canterbury which was renowned for its healing properties.^[24]
Riverside Light Installation	Riverside Building, University Hospital Lewisham	2007	?		Light installation	—	^[25]
Memorial to Asquith Gibbes	Lewisham Police Station	2019	Simon Smith		Relief	—	Unveiled 27 June 2019. Gibbes was the founder of the Lewisham Equality Council, in 1981.^[26] Inscribed "Race Equality/ Asquith Gibbes MBE/ 4 November 1934 – 16 July 2013"

Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
Statue of Robert Aske	Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School 51.4681°N 0.0436°W / 51.4681; -0.0436 (Statue of Robert Aske)	1825	William Croggon	—	Statue	Grade II	^[27]
Francis Drake and Robert Blake	Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)	1905	Henry Poole	H. V. Lanchester, James Stewart and E. A. Rickards	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	^[28]
Admiral Lord Nelson and an admiral of 1905	Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)	1905	Henry Poole	H. V. Lanchester, James Stewart and E. A. Rickards	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	^[28]
Water and Wine	Goldsmiths, University of London	1990	Michael Kenny	—	Sculpture	—	^[29]
Black Door	Goldsmiths, University of London		Svein Møxvold	—	Sculpture	—	^[30]