List of public art in Kensington and Chelsea
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This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Belgravia
- Part of Belgravia lies outside Kensington and Chelsea; for works not listed here see the List of public art in the City of Westminster
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Type | Location | Date | Sculptor | Notes | Source |
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75px | The Jeeves Ladies | Sculptural group | Outside Jeeves shop, Pont Street | 1974 | Kate McGill | Based on the logo, depicting two gossiping Edwardian ladies out shopping, designed by Derrick Holmes for the dry cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia. Holmes also produced the maquette for the sculpture.[1] |
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Brompton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman | Brompton Oratory | 1895 | Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud | Statue under canopy | Campanella marble and Portland stone | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner.[2] |
Chelsea
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Charles II | Royal Hospital, Figure Court Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1676 | Grinling Gibbons | Statue | Gilt bronze | Grade I-listed | Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat, presented to the King in 1682 and installed in the Royal Hospital in 1692. Gilding removed 1782 and restored 2002.[3] |
Millar Obelisk | King's Road, Dovehouse Green | 1751 |
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Chillianwallah Memorial | Royal Hospital, South Grounds | 1853 | Charles Robert Cockerell | Obelisk | Grade II-listed | [5] | ||
120x120px | Sir Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain | Hans Place | late 19th century | Joseph Whitehead and Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion) | Drinking fountain with relief sculpture |
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Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place.[6] | |
Chelsea War Memorial | Sloane Square Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1920 | Sir Reginald Blomfield | Cross | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design.[7] | ||
120x120px | Fountain | Wellington Square | 1926 |
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120x120px | Venus Fountain | Sloane Square | 1953 | Gilbert Ledward | Fountain with sculpture | Bronze | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe.[9] |
120x120px | Girl with Doves | Cadogan Square | 1970 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze |
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120x120px | The Dancers | Cadogan Square | 1971 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze |
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Dancer with Bird | Cadogan Square | 1974 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze |
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Young Girl | Sloane Gardens | 1980 | Karin Jonzen | Statue | Bronze |
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120x120px | The In-Pensioner | Royal Hospital, North Front | 2000 | Philip Jackson | Statue | Bronze |
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Unveiled 4 May 2000.[12] |
120x120px | My Children | Duke of York Square | 2002 | Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal) | Sculptures | Bronze |
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The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square.[13] |
120x120px | Sir Hans Sloane | Duke of York Square | 2005 | Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack | Statue |
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120x120px | Chelsea Arts Club frontages | 143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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Nell Gwyn | Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue | Architectural sculpture |
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120x120px | Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids | The Pheasantry, King's Road | 1881 | Amédée Joubert | Architectural sculptures |
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William Friese Greene | King's Road, outside No. 208 | Architectural sculpture (relief) |
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Chelsea Embankment
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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120x120px | Memorial to George Sparks | Chelsea Embankment, outside Chelsea Old Church | 1880 | Charles Barry, Jr. | Drinking fountain |
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120x120px | Thomas Carlyle | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1882 | Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue | Bronze statue on red granite pedestal | Grade II-listed | [22] |
120x120px | Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1887 | Ford Madox Brown | Drinking fountain with bust | Grey granite and bronze | Grade II-listed | Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Architect: John Pollard Seddon, in whose cottage in Bridlington Rossetti died in 1882.[23] |
120x120px | Carabiniers Boer War Memorial | Built into the railings of Ranelagh Gardens, opposite Chelsea Bridge | 1905 | Adrian Jones | Screen with relief panels | Red brick, Portland stone and bronze | [24] | |
Atalanta | Near Albert Bridge | 1907 | Francis Derwent Wood | Statue | Bronze | Grade II | Installed on this site in 1929.[25] | |
120x120px | Awakening | Roper’s Gardens | 1915 | Gilbert Ledward | Statue | Bronze | Installed on this site in 1965.[26] | |
Untitled bas relief | Roper’s Gardens | 1950 | Sir Jacob Epstein | Bas relief | Portland stone | Unveiled 3 June 1972.[27] | ||
Sir Thomas More | Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk | 1968 | Leslie Cubitt Bevis | Statue | Unveiled 21 July 1969.[28] | |||
The Boy David | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, east of Oakley Street | 1971 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall after Francis Derwent Wood | Statuette on column | Fibreglass statuette on a pink granite column | Unveiled 8 May 1971. Previously Wood's half-size model of the figure for his Machine Gun Corps Memorial stood here; this was stolen in 1969.[29] | ||
120x120px | Boy with a Dolphin | Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street | 1974 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze | Unveiled 13 October 1975.[30] | |
Sir Hans Sloane | Chelsea Physic Garden | 1983 | After John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | Replica of Rysbrack’s original of 1733, installed here in 1737 and moved to the British Museum in 1983.[31] | |||
120x120px | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Whistler’s Reach, near Battersea Bridge | 2003 | Nicholas Dimbleby | Statue | Bronze | Unveiled 15 September 2005.[32] |
Kensington
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Type | Location | Date | Sculptor | Architect / Designer | Notes | Source |
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75px | Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland | Statue | Holland Park | 1872 | George Frederick Watts and Sir Joseph Boehm | Unveiled 1926 | [2] | |
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala | Equestrian statue | Queen's Gate Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1891 | Sir Joseph Boehm | Originally stood in Waterloo Place, Westminster; moved to its current site in 1921. A replica of the statue to Napier in Kolkata. The boundary line with the City of Westminster bisects this statue. | [33] | ||
Alfred Beit | Bust | Royal School of Mines, Kensington | 1910 | Paul Raphael Montford | [34] | |||
Julius Wernher | Bust | Royal School of Mines, Kensington | 1910 | Paul Raphael Montford | [34] | |||
75px | Kensington War Memorial | Memorial | Kensington Church Street, southern end | 1922 (unveiled) | F. W. Pomeroy | Major Hubert C. Cortette | Unveiled 1 July 1922 by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. | [35] |
75px | Ernest Shackleton | Statue | Royal Geographical Society buildings, Exhibition Road side | 1927–32
unveiled 1932 |
Charles Sargeant Jagger | [36] | ||
75px | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Statue | Queen's Gate | 1961 | Donald Potter | |||
75px | Volodymyr the Great | Statue | Holland Park Ave | 1988 | Leonard Moll | |||
David Livingstone | Royal Geographical Society buildings, Kensington Gore side | |||||||
Sir Clements Markham | Bust | Royal Geographical Society, Kensington | ||||||
Twelve Faces of Man | Thurloe Place | |||||||
Béla Bartók | Statue | South Kensington Tube Station (currently relocated) | Imre Varga |
Kensington Gardens
South Kensington
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Type | Location | Date | Sculptor | Architect / Designer | Notes | Listing |
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Memorial to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami | Memorial | Darwin Centre courtyard, Natural History Museum | 2011 |
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Carmody Groarke Architects | Unveiled 6 July 2011 by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.[37] 4.1m³ of granite with one corner cut away, the largest single block of stone to be transported in Great Britain since the building of Stonehenge. Michael Holland, the memorial's principal organiser, lost his mother, wife and daughter in the tsunami.[38] |
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Alfred Russel Wallace | Statue | Outside the Darwin Centre 2 building, near the wildlife garden, Natural History Museum | 2013 | Anthony Smith |
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Unveiled 7 November 2013, the centenary of Wallace’s death, by Sir David Attenborough. The statue depicts Wallace at the moment of his discovery of the golden birdwing butterfly in the Bacan islands of Indonesia.[39] |
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Subject | Notes | Type | Location | Date | Sculptor | Architect | Source |
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Queen Victoria |
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Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
Albert, Prince Consort |
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Statue | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
St George |
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Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
St Michael |
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Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
9 allegorical figures |
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Relief panels | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
Inspiration and Knowledge |
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Statues in niches | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Alfred Drury | Aston Webb | [40] |
Truth and Beauty |
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Reliefs in spandrels | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Sir George Frampton | Aston Webb | [40] |
Edward VII |
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Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Sir William Goscombe John | Aston Webb | [40] |
Alexandra of Denmark |
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Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Sir William Goscombe John | Aston Webb | [40] |
Grinling Gibbons | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | William Silver Frith | Aston Webb | [41] |
John Bacon | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | William Silver Frith | Aston Webb | [42] |
John Flaxman | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Bertram Pegram | Aston Webb | [43] |
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Bertram Pegram | Aston Webb | [44] |
John Henry Foley | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | James Gamble | Aston Webb | [40] |
Alfred Stevens | Sculptor | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | James Gamble | Aston Webb | [45] |
William Hogarth | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Reuben Sheppard | Aston Webb | [46] |
Sir Joshua Reynolds | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Reuben Sheppard | Aston Webb | [47] |
Thomas Gainsborough | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Stanley Nicholson Babb | Aston Webb | [48] |
George Romney | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Stanley Nicholson Babb | Aston Webb | [49] |
Richard Cosway | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Ernest Gillick | Aston Webb | [50] |
J. M. W. Turner | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Ernest Gillick | Aston Webb | [51] |
John Constable | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Vincent Hill | Aston Webb | [52] |
George Frederic Watts | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Richard Reginald Goulden | Aston Webb | [53] |
Frederic, Lord Leighton | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Gilbert Bayes | Aston Webb | [54] |
Sir John Everett Millais | Painter | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | James Stevenson (“Myrander”) | Aston Webb | [40] |
William of Wykeham | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | J. Wenlock Rollins | Aston Webb | [55] |
John Thorpe | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | J. Wenlock Rollins | Aston Webb | [45] |
Inigo Jones | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Oliver Wheatley | Aston Webb | [40] |
Sir Christopher Wren | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Oliver Wheatley | Aston Webb | [56] |
Sir William Chambers | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Gilbert Bayes | Aston Webb | [57] |
Sir Charles Barry | Architect | Statue in niche | Cromwell Road façade | 1905 | Gilbert Bayes | Aston Webb | [58] |
St Dunstan | Craftsman | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Frank Lynn Jenkins | Aston Webb | [40] |
William Torell | Metalworker | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Frank Lynn Jenkins | Aston Webb | [40] |
William Caxton | Printer | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Paul Raphael Montford | Aston Webb | [40] |
George Heriot | Goldsmith | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Paul Raphael Montford | Aston Webb | [40] |
Huntingdon Shaw | Smith | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Abraham Broadbent | Aston Webb | [40] |
Thomas Tompion | Clockmaker | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Abraham Broadbent | Aston Webb | [40] |
Thomas Chippendale | Furniture maker | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Albert Hodge | Aston Webb | [40] |
Josiah Wedgwood | Potter | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Albert Hodge | Aston Webb | [40] |
Roger Payne | Bookbinder | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Arthur George Walker | Aston Webb | [40] |
William Morris | Textile designer | Statue in niche | Exhibition Road façade | 1905 | Arthur George Walker | Aston Webb | [40] |
Knightsbridge
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to the victims of the 1983 Harrod’s bombing | Harrod’s | 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.[59] |
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