List of public art in Dorset facts for kids
This is a list of public art in Dorset, in England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Bournemouth
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Bournemouth - A History of Shaping the Future | Lansdowne Road 50°43′24″N 1°52′03″W / 50.723246°N 1.867461°W |
February 2016 | Rick Walker | Mural | 15 metres (49 ft) × 13 metres (43 ft) | ||||
A Life Lost to AIDS in Dorset | Pier Approach 50°43′01″N 1°52′34″W / 50.716817°N 1.876021°W |
Tiles | Tile designs created by students of Secondary Schools in Bournemouth and Poole during HIV/AIDS awareness workshops run by DAMSET (Dorset AIDS Memorial Schools Educational Trust). | ||||||
Statue of Lewis Tregonwell and Christopher Crabb Creeke | Exeter Road 50°43′01″N 1°52′40″W / 50.716819°N 1.877876°W |
1999 | Jonathan Sells | Statue | Stone | 3' x 2'6" x 7'6" | Depicts founder of Bournemouth Lewis Tregonwell (standing, holding a bucket and spade) and architect/surveyor Christopher Crabb Creeke (seated on a lavatory in reference to his post of Inspector of Nuisances). Tregonwell also holds the names of three Victoria Cross recipients from Bournemouth. | ||
Mosaic | Exeter Road 50°43′09″N 1°52′49″W / 50.7191°N 1.8803°W |
1996 | After Aubrey Beardsley | Mural | Mosaic tile | Mosaic based on a design by Aubrey Beardsley, who lived in a house "Muriel" which previously stood here. | |||
Blue Skies Jon Egging memorial | East Cliff 50°43′05″N 1°52′00″W / 50.7180°N 1.8666°W |
2012 | Tim Ward | Glass, stainless steel | 5 metres (16 ft) | Memorial to Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging, killed in a crash following a display at Bournemouth Air Festival. The memorial was moved to its current location in 2017 following a landslip. |
Bovington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Royal Tank Regiment Memorial (replica) | Bovington Tank Museum 50°41′42″N 2°14′33″W / 50.6949°N 2.2424°W |
Vivien Mallock after George Henry Paulin | Resin | Resin cast of the Royal Tank Regiment Memorial in Whitehall, London. |
Christchurch
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Christchurch Priory Commemorative Sculpture | Christchurch Priory 50°43′53″N 1°46′25″W / 50.7313°N 1.7737°W |
1994 | Jonathan Sells | Sculpture | Stone | Sculpture commemorating Ranulf Flambard, who began building the priory in 1094. |
Lyme Regis
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Mary Anning | Black Ven 50°43′31″N 2°55′49″W / 50.725256°N 2.930395°W |
May 2022 | Denise Dutton | Statue | Bronze | Statue of paleontologist Mary Anning. Crowdfunded by a campaign "Mary Anning Rocks", started by Dorset schoolgirl Evie Swire. |
Poole
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Robert Baden-Powell | The Quay 50°42′43″N 1°59′09″W / 50.71195°N 1.98592°W |
2008 | David Annand | Statue | Bronze | Depicts Robert Baden-Powell facing Brownsea Island, site of the first Scout camp. |
Weymouth and Osmington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Osmington White Horse | Osmington Hill, Osmington 50°39′27″N 2°24′16″W / 50.65741°N 2.40438°W |
1808 | Hill figure | Chalk | Scheduled monument | The rider is George III. | |||
Statue of Queen Victoria | Outside St John's Church, The Esplanade, Weymouth 50°37′07″N 2°27′03″W / 50.6187°N 2.4507°W |
1902 | George Blackall Simonds | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | 7 metres (23 ft) tall | Grade II | ||
Weymouth Cenotaph | The Esplanade, Weymouth 50°37′01″N 2°27′05″W / 50.6170°N 2.4513°W |
1921 | Francis William Doyle Jones | Cenotaph | Portland stone | 5.3 metres (17 ft) tall | Grade II |
Portland
Other
Dorset was once considered for a hill figure of Marilyn Monroe, but the figure was never made.
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