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


Beckenham

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Beckenham War Memorial (02).jpg Beckenham War Memorial Junction of High Street, Rectory Road, Beckenham Road and Croydon Road

51°24′25″N 0°01′56″W / 51.4070°N 0.03210°W / 51.4070; -0.03210 (Beckenham War Memorial)
1921 Newbury Abbot Trent Memorial Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 24 July 1921.

Bickley

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Bickley War Memorial (01).jpg Bickley War Memorial St George's churchyard

51°24′06″N 0°02′58″E / 51.4018°N 0.04937°E / 51.4018; 0.04937 (Bickley War Memorial)
1920 Newton, William GodfreyWilliam Godfrey Newton Memorial cross Limestone and bronze Grade II

Biggin Hill

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Biggin Hill War Memorial, TN16 - geograph.org.uk - 68641.jpg Biggin Hill War Memorial Main Road

51°18′59″N 0°01′59″E / 51.3163°N 0.0330°E / 51.3163; 0.0330 (Biggin Hill War Memorial)
1923 Memorial Stone Grade II
London Biggin Hill Airport 2.jpg Hurricane and Spitfire Main Road, at entrance to RAF chapel

51°19′37″N 0°01′23″E / 51.3270°N 0.0230°E / 51.3270; 0.0230 (Hurricane and Spitfire)
2010 (replacements) Sculpture

Bromley

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Bromley Town Pump (01).jpg Town pump High Street 1860s ? Water pump Cast iron N/A
War memorial St Luke's churchyard, Bromley Common

51°23′34″N 0°01′52″E / 51.3927°N 0.0311°E / 51.3927; 0.0311 (St Luke's Church War Memorial)
1920 c. 1920 ? Wheel-head cross with figure of Christ Portland stone and bronze Grade II
War memorial Holy Trinity churchyard, Bromley Common

51°22′48″N 0°02′33″E / 51.3801°N 0.0426°E / 51.3801; 0.0426 (Holy Trinity Church War Memorial)
1920 Hellicar, EvelynEvelyn Hellicar Memorial cross Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 29 July 1920.
Bromley Parish Church Memorial 2.jpg War memorial St Peter and St Paul's churchyard

51°24′18″N 0°00′46″E / 51.4050°N 0.0127°E / 51.4050; 0.0127 (Bromley Parish Church War Memorial)
1921 March, SydneySydney March Column with sculpture Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 20 March 1921.
Bromley War Memorial (Southwest View - 03).jpg Bromley War Memorial Martin's Hill

51°24′17.7″N 00°00′39.9″E / 51.404917°N 0.011083°E / 51.404917; 0.011083 (Bromley War Memorial)
1922 March, SydneySydney March Memorial Portland stone and bronze Grade II* Unveiled 29 October 1922.
Charles-darwin-mural-bromley.jpg Darwin Mural
Charles Darwin
High Street, on side of Daniel's

51°24′20″N 0°00′55″E / 51.4055°N 0.0154°E / 51.4055; 0.0154 (Bromley Town Pump and Charles Darwin Mural)
2008 Williams, BruceBruce Williams Mural Paint N/A

Chislehurst

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Chislehurst War Memorial (02).jpg Chislehurst War Memorial Bromley Road

51°24′45″N 0°04′25″E / 51.4124°N 00.0735°E / 51.4124; 00.0735 (Chislehurst War Memorial)
1920 Blomfield, ReginaldReginald Blomfield Memorial Stone Grade II Unveiled 17 October 1920. An example of Blomfield's much-used Cross of Sacrifice design; Blomfield visited Chislehurst and chose the site himself due to his friendship with Louis Birkett, the honorary secretary of the committee responsible for erecting the memorial.

Crystal Palace

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Mantellodon in Crystal Palace Park.jpg Prehistoric animals
Anoplotherium, Dicynodon, Hylaeosaurus✻, Ichthyosaurus, Labyrinthodon, Mantellodon✻, Megaloceros, Megalosaurus✻, Megatherium, Mosasaurus, Palaeotherium, Plesiosaurs, Pterodactyl, Teleosaurus

Dinosaurs

Crystal Palace Park

51°25′03″N 0°04′03″W / 51.4175°N 0.0675°W / 51.4175; -0.0675 (Crystal Palace Dinosaurs)
1852–1855 Hawkins, Benjamin WaterhouseBenjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Statues Re-constituted stone Grade I
Joseph Paxton bust - geograph.org.uk - 658285.jpg Bust of Joseph Paxton Crystal Palace Park

51°25′16″N 0°04′15″W / 51.4210°N 0.0707°W / 51.4210; -0.0707 (Joseph Paxton)
1869 William F. Woodington Bust Carrara marble Grade II
Guy the Gorilla in Crystal Palace Park (cropped).jpg Gorilla
Guy the Gorilla
Adjacent to Lower Lake, Crystal Palace Park

51°25′08″N 0°03′53″W / 51.4188°N 0.0646°W / 51.4188; -0.0646 (Gorilla)
1961 Wynne, DavidDavid Wynne Statue Belgian marble Grade II

Keston

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Western Face of the Keston War Memorial.jpg Keston War Memorial Heathfield Road

51°21′29″N 0°01′55″E / 51.3580°N 0.0320°E / 51.3580; 0.0320 (Keston War Memorial)
1920 March, SydneySydney March Stylised Latin cross Portland stone and bronze Grade II Unveiled 10 March 1920.

Mottingham

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
East Face of the Mottingham War Memorial.jpg Mottingham War Memorial Junction of Mottingham Road and West Park

51°26′15″N 0°02′35″E / 51.4374°N 0.0430°E / 51.4374; 0.0430 (Mottingham War Memorial)
1920 Hubbard, GeorgeGeorge Hubbard Memorial Stone Grade II

Orpington

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
The Orpington War Memorial.jpg Orpington War Memorial Junction of High Street, Spur Road, Sevenoaks Road and Station Road

51°22′23″N 0°05′51″E / 51.3731°N 0.0975°E / 51.3731; 0.0975 (Orpington War Memorial)
1921 Comyn, Charles HeatonCharles Heaton Comyn Memorial Stone Grade II Unveiled 28 August 1921.

Penge

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
War Memorial, Holy Trinity Church (geograph 3139504 cropped).jpg War memorial Holy Trinity churchyard

51°25′07″N 0°02′55″W / 51.4186°N 0.04856°W / 51.4186; -0.04856 (Holy Trinity Church War Memorial)
1921 ? Memorial cross Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 19 February 1921.
Penge War Memorial (geograph 2303458 cropped).jpg Penge War Memorial High Street

51°24′59″N 0°03′21″W / 51.4165°N 0.0559°W / 51.4165; -0.0559 (Penge War Memorial)
1925 ? Celtic cross Granite Grade II Unveiled 25 September 1925.

Petts Wood

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
Willett memorial.JPG Willett, WilliamWilliam Willett Memorial Sundial Petts Wood

51°24′11.8″N 0°5′0″E / 51.403278°N 0.08333°E / 51.403278; 0.08333 (William Willett Memorial Sundial)
1927 Sundial Stone

St Mary Cray

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
St Mary Cray War Memorial (I) (cropped).jpg St Mary Cray War Memorial St Mary's churchyard

51°23′42″N 0°06′54″E / 51.3951°N 0.1149°E / 51.3951; 0.1149 (St Mary Cray War Memorial)
1919 ? Celtic cross Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 29 December 1919.

Shortlands

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
War Memorial, Kingswood Road, Shortlands, Kent (geograph 1942133 cropped).jpg Shortlands War Memorial Junction of Kingswood Road and Church Road

51°24′05″N 0°00′01″W / 51.4015°N 0.0002°W / 51.4015; -0.0002 (Shortlands War Memorial)
1921 Caröe, W. D.W. D. Caröe Celtic cross Leckhampton stone Grade II Unveiled 9 October 1921.

West Wickham

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Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
West Wickham War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 3188711.jpg West Wickham War Memorial Corkscrew Hill

51°22′16″N 0°00′32″W / 51.3712°N 0.0088°W / 51.3712; -0.0088 (West Wickham War Memorial)
1921 ? Memorial cross Granite Grade II Unveiled 12 June 1921 on the High Street; moved to this site in 1939.
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