List of public art in the London Borough of Southwark facts for kids
This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Southwark.
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Bankside
Bermondsey
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to James Braidwood | Tooley Street | 1862 | Samuel Henry Gardiner | N/A | Relief | |||
Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington | Tooley Street 51°30′10″N 0°04′41″W / 51.5029°N 0.0781°W |
1910 | Sydney March | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
St John Horsleydown War Memorial | St John's Churchyard 51°30′08″N 0°04′42″W / 51.5022°N 0.0784°W |
1920 | c.? | N/A | Crucifix | Grade II | ||
Bermondsey and Rotherhithe War Memorial | West Lane 51°29′56″N 0°03′38″W / 51.4990°N 0.0605°W |
1921 | N/A | ? | Memorial column | Grade II | Unveiled October 1921. | |
22nd Battalion London Regiment (The Queen's) War Memorial | Old Jamaica Road 51°29′53″N 0°04′15″W / 51.4980°N 0.0709°W |
1921 | ? | ? | War memorial | Grade II | Unveiled 20 November 1921. | |
Bust of Ernest Bevin | Tooley Street 51°30′10″N 0°04′40″W / 51.5028°N 0.0779°W |
1955 | Ernest Shone-Jones after Edwin Whitney-Smith | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Lady with a Greyhound | Avondale Square | 1962 | Antony Weller | N/A | Sculpture | |||
'Jacob' – The Circle Dray Horse | The Circle, Queen Elizabeth Street 51°30′06″N 0°04′28″W / 51.50160°N 0.07438°W |
1987 | Shirley Pace | Statue | Grade II | Alludes to the brewery stables in the area in the 19th century and to the name of the historic parish Southwark St John Horsleydown, which may refer to a grazing ground. | ||
The Navigators | Hay's Galleria | 1987 | David Kemp | |||||
Waterfall | Horselydown Square 51°30′14″N 0°04′31″W / 51.5038°N 0.0754°W |
1991 | Antony Donaldson | Fountain with sculpture | N/A | |||
Exotic Cargo | St Saviour's Dock footbridge, Butler's Wharf | 1995 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
A Last Parting Look (for C.D.) Charles Dickens |
22 Leathermarket Street | 2006 | Joseph Kosuth | Installation | N/A | The text is a quotation from Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers. | ||
The Bermondsey Lion | The Blue 51°29′33″N 0°03′49″W / 51.4924°N 0.0636°W |
2011 | Kevin Boys | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Dr Salter's Daydream Alfred Salter |
Cherry Gardens 51°30′02″N 0°03′35″W / 51.5006°N 0.0597°W |
2014 | Diane Gorvin | N/A | Sculptures | N/A | Replaces a group of the same name installed here in 1991. The seated statue of Dr Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council. The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada. | |
Memorial to Albert Edward McKenzie | Tower Bridge Road | 2015 | Kevin Boys | Tim Wood | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Cornerstone | Tanner Street Park | 2020 | Austin Emery | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Mandela Way T-34 Tank | Mandela Way 51°29′35″N 0°04′58″W / 51.4930°N 0.0827°W |
N/A |
Camberwell
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Robert Bentley Todd | King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill | 1863 | Matthew Noble | |||||
Camberwell Beauty butterfly | Denmark Hill (on wall of Superdrug) | 20th century | N/A | Tile mural | N/A | |||
Two mermaid corbels | Wells Way | 1903 | Henry Gunthorp and Sylvester Horsman | Maurice Bingham Adams and William Oxtoby | Corbels | Grade II | ||
Camberwell Beauty butterfly | Wells Way | c. 1920 | ? | Maurice Bingham Adams | Tile mural | Grade II | The butterfly was used as the logo of the local stationery firm Samuel Jones & Co. The mural was relocated to its present site after the firm left its offices in Peckham in 1982. | |
Burgess Park War Memorial | 55 Wells Way (formerly St George's Church) 51°28′54″N 0°05′08″W / 51.481784°N 0.085481°W |
1920 | Arild Rosenkrantz | N/A | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 19 September 1920. | |
1st Surrey Rifles War Memorial | St Giles's churchyard, Camberwell Church Street 51°28′24″N 0°05′13″W / 51.4733°N 0.0870°W |
1921 | ? | N/A | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 6 November 1921. | |
Statue of William Booth | Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51°28′04″N 0°05′19″W / 51.4679°N 0.0886°W |
1929 | George Edward Wade | Giles Gilbert Scott | Statue | Grade II | ||
Statue of Catherine Booth | Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51°28′04″N 0°05′20″W / 51.4679°N 0.0888°W |
1929 | George Edward Wade | Giles Gilbert Scott | Statue | Grade II | ||
Memorial to Damilola Taylor | Oliver Goldsmith Primary School | 2001–2002 | Alexandra Brooke | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Run | Denmark Hill | 2009 | Leigh Dyer | N/A | Sculptures | N/A |
Dulwich
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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St Peter's Church War Memorial | St Peter's churchyard, Lordship Lane 51°26′35″N 0°04′03″W / 51.4431°N 0.0675°W |
after 1918 | ? | N/A | Rectangular pillar with flagpole | Grade II | ||
St Stephen's Church War Memorial | St Stephen's churchyard, College Road 51°25′56″N 0°04′42″W / 51.4323°N 0.0784°W |
after 1918 | ? | N/A | Celtic cross | Grade II | ||
Dulwich College War Memorial | Dulwich College 51°26′25″N 0°05′03″W / 51.4402°N 0.0842°W |
1920; 1990 | N/A | W. H. Atkin-Berry; John Wells-Thorpe | Memorial cross with stelae | Grade II | Unveiled 17 June 1921 by Major General Sir Webb Gillman. | |
Southwark Military Hospital War Memorial | Former Dulwich Hospital 51°27′32″N 0°04′51″W / 51.4589°N 0.0807°W |
1920; 2009 | ? | N/A | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 16 October 1920, on a site about 20m to the west of its current location. Only the base is original, the cross and shaft having been lost after the memorial was put into storage in the 1950s. Restored and reinstalled on this site in 2009. | |
Dulwich Old College War Memorial | Dulwich Old College 51°26′48″N 0°05′09″W / 51.4468°N 0.0859°W |
1921 | N/A | W. D. Caröe | Memorial cross | Grade II | ||
Memorial to Edward Alleyn | Dulwich Old College 51°26′49″N 0°05′10″W / 51.4469°N 0.0860°W |
2005 | Louise Simson | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | ||
Walking the Dog | Dulwich Picture Gallery | 2009 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Presented by the Art Fund in 2011 to mark the Dulwich Picture Gallery's bicentenary. | |
Three Perpetual Chords | Dulwich Park | 2015 | Conrad Shawcross | N/A | Sculpture | N/A |
Elephant and Castle
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Elephant and Castle | Elephant and Castle | 1898 | ? | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Borough of Southwark World War II Memorial | Walworth Town Hall, Walworth Road | 1949 | ? | N/A | Tablets | Grade II | Unveiled 11 June 1949. | |
Michael Faraday Memorial | Elephant and Castle roundabout 51°29′42″N 0°06′02″W / 51.4950°N 0.1006°W |
1959–1961 | N/A | Rodney Gordon | Sculpture | Grade II | ||
Southwark Memorial | Walworth Square | 2018 | Kenny Hunter | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Big King | Morley College | ? | Glenn Hellman | N/A | Architectural sculpture | N/A |
Kennington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 | Brandon Estate, Cooks Road 51°28′57″N 0°06′15″W / 51.4825°N 0.1043°W |
1961 | Henry Moore | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Segment of the Berlin Wall | Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park | ? | "Indiano" (Jürgen L. Grosse) | N/A | Segment of wall with graffiti | N/A | ||
Soviet War Memorial | Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 51°29′46″N 0°06′35″W / 51.4962°N 0.1096°W |
1999 | Sergei Shcherbakov | Garry Breeze | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 9 May (Victory Day) 1999. |
Newington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Alfred the Great | Trinity Church Square 51°29′56″N 0°05′37″W / 51.4989°N 0.0936°W |
Late 1st – early 2nd century (lower half); early 19th century (upper half) | ? | N/A | Statue | Grade II | The lower half is a remnant of a colossal Roman statue, most likely of the goddess Minerva. Previously thought to be either a medieval statue commissioned by Richard II for Westminster Hall, or entirely 18th- or 19th-century. | |
The Black Friar | Friars House, Blackfriars Road / Pocock Street | 1958 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall | Relief |
Peckham
Rotherhithe
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bluecoat Boy and Girl statues | Façade of 70 St Marychurch Street, near St Mary's Church 51°30′03″N 0°03′15″W / 51.50097°N 0.05407°W |
after 1700 | ? | N/A | Statues | Grade II | ||
Two caryatides | Southwark Park | 1897 | Henry Poole | Murray and Foster (original building) | Caryatides (now freestanding) | N/A | Originally flanked the entrance of Rotherhithe Town Hall, which was demolished after being heavily damaged in the Blitz. Relocated to the Heygate Estate in 1974, then to this site in 2011. | |
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial | Holy Trinity churchyard 51°30′01″N 0°02′05″W / 51.5003°N 0.0348°W |
after 1918 | ? | N/A | Cross atop a fluted pillar | Grade II | ||
St Mary's Church War Memorial | St Mary's churchyard 51°30′04″N 0°03′15″W / 51.5012°N 0.0542°W |
after 1918 | ? | N/A | Memorial cross | Grade II | ||
Norwegian Seamen's War Memorial | St Olav's Church 51°29′56″N 0°03′37″W / 51.4990°N 0.0604°W |
1927 | ? | N/A | War memorial | Grade II | ||
Curlicue | Greenland Dock 51°29′46″N 0°01′58″W / 51.4961°N 0.0327°W |
1989 | William Pye | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Bust of James Walker | Greenland Dock 51°29′44″N 0°02′27″W / 51.49542°N 0.04074°W |
1990 | Michael Rizzello | N/A | Bust | N/A | ||
Deal Porters | Canada Water | 1990 | Philip Bews | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | Unveiled 19 October 1990 by Jack Jones. | |
Sunshine Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket | Cumberland Wharf 51°30′09″N 0°03′07″W / 51.5024°N 0.0519°W |
1991 | Peter McLean | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | ||
Memorial to Christopher Jones | St Mary's churchyard | 1995 | Jamie Sargeant | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | ||
Sustrans Portrait Bench | Greenland Dock 51°29′43″N 0°02′26″W / 51.49530°N 0.04047°W |
2013 | ? | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Depicts Phyllis Pearsall, Michael Caine, and Barry Mason (represented by a bicycle and cormorant). |
Southwark
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Royal Arms of George III | Façade of King's Arms pub, Newcomen Street | 1728 | c.N/A | N/A | Architectural sculpture (relief) | Grade II | Originally stood on a gateway that spanned the old London Bridge. Placed on the pub's façade soon after it was completed in 1890. | |
Statue of Thomas Guy | Guy's Hospital 51°30′15″N 0°05′16″W / 51.5043°N 0.0879°W |
1734 | Peter Scheemakers | N/A | Statue | Grade II | ||
The Sower | Red Cross Garden 51°30′12″N 0°05′41″W / 51.5033°N 0.0948°W |
1896 | After Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford | James Powell and Sons (glassmakers) | Mosaic | Grade II | ||
Plaque marking the approximate site of the Globe Theatre | Park Street | 1909 | Édouard Lantéri | N/A | Plaque with relief | N/A | Unveiled by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and commissioned by the Shakespeare Reading Society, of which Tree was President. | |
Guy's Hospital War Memorial | Guy's Hospital, St Thomas Street 51°30′11″N 0°05′20″W / 51.5030°N 0.0890°W |
1921 | N/A | William Walford | Memorial arch | Grade II | Unveiled 16 July 1921 by the Duke of York (the future George V). | |
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial | London Bridge station 51°30′17″N 0°05′10″E / 51.5046°N 0.086°E |
1921 | ? | N/A | Plaques | N/A | Unveiled 5 October 1921. | |
London Hop Trade War Memorial | Borough High Street 51°30′15″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5043°N 0.0908°W |
1922 | Omar Ramsden | N/A | Plaque | N/A | Unveiled 19 January 1922. | |
St Saviour's War Memorial | Borough High Street, opposite Talbot's Yard 51°30′15″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5043°N 0.0909°W |
1922 | Philip Lindsey Clark | N/A | Statue | Grade II* | Unveiled 16 November 1922. | |
Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield | Guy's Hospital 51°29′12″N 0°04′10″W / 51.4866°N 0.0695°W |
1949 | Maurice Lambert | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Minerva | Southwark Cathedral | 1966 | Alan Collins | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
The Holy Family | Cathedral Street | 1981 | Kenneth Hughes | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | ||
Opus | Nancy Sear Building (Morley College), King Edward Walk | 1982–1983 | Wendy Taylor | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Southwark Gateway Needle | London Bridge, at south end 51°30′22″N 0°05′17″W / 51.5062°N 0.0881°W |
1999 | N/A | Eric Parry | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Couple | More London Place | 2003 | Stephan Balkenhol | N/A | Statues | N/A | ||
Full Stop | More London | 2003 | Fiona Banner | N/A | Sculptures | N/A | ||
Evergreen | The Queen's Walk (More London) | 2003 | David Batchelor | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon | Churchyard of Southwark Cathedral | 2006 | Peter Randall-Page | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled 22 November 2006 by Elizabeth II. | |
Blue Men | Maya House, Borough High Street | 2007 | Ofra Zimbalista | Architectural sculpture | N/A | |||
Statue of John Keats | Guy's Hospital | 2007 | Stuart Williamson | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Statue of Simon Milton | Outside One Tower Bridge | 2016 | Philip Jackson | N/A | Statue | N/A | ||
Corten Head | Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street | 2017 | Sokari Douglas Camp | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | ||
Blue Moon | Vinegar Yard, corner of St Thomas Street and Fenning Street 51°30′10″N 0°05′03″W / 51.5029°N 0.0841°W |
2019 | Joe Rush and the Mutoid Waste Company | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | A train carriage with ants formed from repurposed scrap metal crawling over it. |
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