List of public art in Birmingham
This is a list of public art in Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.
Central Birmingham/ Ladywood
Victoria Square
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Queen Victoria | Victoria Square 52.479536°N 1.903073°W |
1901 | , 1951Thomas Brock, William Bloye | statue | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Q47460184 | Recast by William Bloye from a marble statue by Thomas Brock[1][2][3] | ||
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River, and Youth | Victoria Square 52.479626°N 1.90322°W |
c. 1993 | Dhruva Mistry | statues | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Part of River, Youth, Guardians and Object (Variations)[4][5][3] In July 2015 the fountain was converted into a flower bed. Cofton Nursery removed it in November 2020. [6] | |||
Guardian Sphinx 1 | Victoria Square 52.479472°N 1.902429°W |
1993 | Dhruva Mistry | statue | Stone | Birmingham City Council | [5] | ||||
Guardian Sphinx 2 | Victoria Square 52.479693°N 1.901995°W |
1993 | Dhruva Mistry | statue | Stone | Birmingham City Council | [5] | ||||
Object (Variations) | Victoria Square | 1993 | Dhruva Mistry | statue | Stone | Birmingham City Council | One of two sculptures collectively known as Object (Variations).[5] | ||||
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Iron: Man | Victoria Square 52.479536°N 1.902484°W |
1993 | Antony Gormley | statue | Iron | Birmingham City Council | Q12060795 | The statue was moved into storage on 5 September 2017 until sometime in 2020 [7] The finishing touches to the Westside Metro extension around Victoria Square taking place in 2020 and the Iron:Man will eventually return in due course[8] Three years and when will the Iron:Man come back? [9][3] |
Chamberlain Square
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Chamberlain Memorial | Chamberlain Square 52.479877°N 1.904259°W |
1880 | John Henry Chamberlain | memorial | Stone | Grade II listed[10] | Birmingham City Council | Q5069586 | [3] Might be affected by the Paradise Circus redevelopment from 2015. But is part of the plans for the new look Chamberlain Square. | |
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Birmingham Man | Chamberlain Square 52.479089°N 1.905724°W |
1993 |
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statue | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Q47483006 | Depicts Thomas Attwood. There was also a Soapbox and pages on the steps with the words "Reform", "The Vote". and "The Prosperity".[11][12] It was moved into storage during November 2015 due to the Paradise Birmingham scheme. The statue will return when landscaping of Chamberlain Square is complete.[13] It returned on the 1st July 2020 [14][15][3] | ||
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James Watt | Chamberlain Square 52.479825°N 1.904566°W |
1868 | Alexander Munro | statue | Stone | Birmingham City Council | Q47467095 | Due to the Paradise, Birmingham redevelopment and the demolition of Birmingham Central Library in 2016, the statue was moved into storage in late September 2015 to the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre [16] The statue will return when landscaping of Chamberlain Square is complete.[13] | ||
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Joseph Priestley | Chamberlain Square 52.479923°N 1.904601°W |
1874 | Francis John Williamson | statue | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Q47467138 | Recast in bronze 1951. Due to the Paradise, Birmingham redevelopment and the demolition of Birmingham Central Library in 2016, the statue was moved into storage in late September 2015 to the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre.[16] The statue will return when landscaping of Chamberlain Square is complete.[13] | ||
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George Dawson | 1880 | Thomas Woolner | Statue | Stone | Grade II listed[17] | Birmingham City Council | Q26339369 | Formerly in Chamberlain Square (near Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery). Presently in storage at the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre. |
Bullring
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Statue of Horatio Nelson | Bull Ring 52.477281°N 1.893949°W |
1809 | Richard Westmacott | statue and railings | Bronze | Grade II* listed[18] | Birmingham City Council | Q7604486 | ||
City of a Thousand Trades | Bell Street Passage, Birmingham | 1987 | West Midlands Public Art Collective | Relief |
| commissioned by the then West Midlands County Council; lost[19] | |||||
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The Guardian | Bull Ring 52.477732°N 1.895273°W |
2003 | Laurence Broderick | Bronze | Q47489116 | |||||
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The Tree of Life | Edgbaston Street 52.476383°N 1.895424°W |
2005 | Lorenzo Quinn | Bronze | Commemorates civilian victims of the Blitz in Birmingham | |||||
Tree Sculpture | Spiceal Street, Bullring 52.476849°N 1.893783°W |
2011 | Wolfgang Buttress | sculpture | copper | Bullring | The 44ft tall tree was made with the reclaimed copper roof from the Spiral Cafe which was removed to make way for the new row of restaurants [20] | ||||
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24 hour Route | Ramps near the Bull Ring (either side of Rotunda Square) 52.478029°N 1.895602°W |
2004 | Anuradha Patel | Railings | Painted Steel | Birmingham City Council | An important pedestrian route between Birmingham New Street station and Birmingham Moor Street station [21] |
Old Square
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Tony Hancock | Old Square, Birmingham 52.481777°N 1.895411°W |
1996 | Bruce Williams | Steel | Birmingham City Council | [4] | |||
Old Square | Old Square, Birmingham 52.482292°N 1.895002°W |
1967 | Kenneth Budd | Mural | Fibreglass | Birmingham City Council | ||||
Bannatyne's mosaic | Bannatyne's – The Priory Queensway 52.481916°N 1.892894°W |
Mosaic | Tiles |
Steelhouse Conservation Area
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Wattilisk | Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts – Dalton Street / Newton Street 52.482739°N 1.892831°W |
1987 | Vincent Woropay | Sculpture | black Indian granite | Birmingham City Council | Depicts James Watt based on Egyptian obelisks and Native American totem poles [22] | ||
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Pitman and Murdoch Chambers sculptures | Pitman Chambers and Murdoch Chambers, 153–161 Corporation Street 52.482779°N 1.894026°W |
1896 | Benjamin Creswick | Sculpture | Stone | Grade II* listed[23] | |||
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Fountain sculpture outside The Wesleyan | The Wesleyan – Colmore Square 52.483191°N 1.896708°W |
Sculpture / fountain | Steel | The Wesleyan |
Birmingham New Street station
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Birmingham Figure | John Bright Street (near Hill Street and Navigation Street) 52.477779°N 1.901649°W |
1987 | Lea Grandjean | Sculpture | Stone Lepine Lime | Birmingham City Council | [24] The sculpture is getting a revamp in 2016 [25] | |||
Iron Horse | Birmingham New Street station 52.47786°N 1.900827°W |
1987 | Kevin Atherton | sculpture | iron | Network Rail | 12 horses were commissioned in 1987 between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton | |||
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Birmingham Pub Bombings Memorial | The public square outside of Birmingham New Street station 52.477381°N 1.896960°W |
21 November 2018 | Anuradha Patel | Sculpture | Steel | 3 x 15 ft steel trees | Network Rail | Three huge sculptural steel trees in memory of the Birmingham Pub Bombings victims of 21 November 1974. [26] [27] Leaves will have 21 names, one for each life lost. [28] |
Great Charles Street Queensway
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Allegories of Art and Industry | Over the north-west door of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (The Feeney Gallery extension), Great Charles Street 52.4811°N 1.9050°W |
c. 1919 | William Bloye | Stone | Grade II* listed[29] | Birmingham City Council | [1] | |||
Aesculapius | Chest Clinic, Great Charles Street 52.4817°N 1.9047°W |
1930 | William Bloye | Stone | [1] |
Colmore Row Business Improvement District
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Charles Gore, First Bishop of Birmingham | Birmingham Cathedral 52.481132°N 1.899408°W |
1914 | Thomas Stirling Lee | statue | Bronze | Grade II listed[30] | ||||
Burnaby obelisk | Near the Temple Row side of the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral 52.480950°N 1.898242°W |
1885 | Robert Bridgeman of Lichfield | War memorial Obelisk | Portland stone | Grade II listed[31] | Burnaby was a military figure who stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate for Birmingham seat in Parliament in 1880. He died in 1885 at the Battle of Abu Klea, Sudan [32] | |||
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Angel Drinking Fountain | Birmingham Cathedral - Temple Row 52.481156°N 1.897473°W |
1850 | Drinking fountain | Bronze | Grade II listed[33] | Originally stood outside Christ Church at the junction of Colmore Row and New Street. After the church was demolished in 1899 it was moved to Temple Row (outside Birmingham Cathedral).[34] | |||
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History of Snow Hill | near the bottom of the steps, behind 1 and 9 Colmore Row | 2013 | Oliver Budd | Mural | mosaic | Birmingham City Council | Commemorates Birmingham Snow Hill station. Miniature version of original mural by Kenneth Budd, in St Chad's Circus, which was destroyed in 2007. | ||
Carousel | West Midlands Police Headquarters – Lloyd House – Snow Hill Queensway 52.483904°N 1.897598°W |
1962 | Raymond Forbes King | Sculpture | Painted Fibreglass | West Midlands Police | It was formerly the Carousel Restaurant [35] Lloyd House reopened as of 2017, but this has not returned | |||
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The Commuter | Birmingham Snow Hill station 52.483902°N 1.899831°W |
1996 | John McKenna | statue | Bronze | West Midlands Network | It was moved from the concourse to platform 1 and 2. Was moved again when the station was refurbished | ||
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'Wisdom, Fortitude, Charity, Faith' | Legal and General Assurance Building, 7 Waterloo Street 52.480405°N 1.900024°W |
1932 | William Bloye | Four bas relief panels | Portland Stone ashlar | Exterior high level bas-relief carvings.[1] | |||
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Capitals and pediment sculptures | New Oxford House, 16 Waterloo Street 52.479942°N 1.901489°W |
1935 | William Bloye | Stone | Exterior: two capitals, shield above door and upstairs pediment and putto.[1] | ||||
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Sun and lettering | Sun Insurance Building, Bennetts Hill 52.47991°N 1.90025°W |
1927 | William Bloye | Sun sculpture and lettering | Stone bas-relief[1] | ||||
Lorenzo Ghiberti | 79 – 83 Colmore Row 52.481241°N 1.900409°W |
1871 | J. A. Chatwin | sculpture | Stone | Grade II listed[36] | Royal Bank of Scotland | Built for William Spurrier in 1871-3. A silversmith | ||
Benvenuto Cellini | 79 – 83 Colmore Row 52.481241°N 1.900409°W |
1871 | J. A. Chatwin | sculpture | Stone | Grade II listed[36] | Royal Bank of Scotland | Built for William Spurrier in 1871-3. A silversmith | ||
Allegories of Science and Art | Great Western Arcade Temple Row end 52.481479°N 1.896736°W |
1875 | W. H. Ward | Sculpture | Stone, Darley Dale and Bath | Great Western Arcade | [37] |
Cannon Street
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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William Shakespeare 1564-1616 | Cannon Street, Birmingham 52.479558°N 1.898220°W |
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Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 | Cannon Street, Birmingham 52.479708°N 1.898051°W |
Sculpture | Birmingham City Council |
Ethel Street
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Winston Churchill House sculpture | Winston Churchill House, 8 Ethel Street 52.479042°N 1.900934°W |
1960s | Sculpture | Bronze | Bronze relief above the entrance of Winston Churchill House. |
Baskerville House
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Industry and Genius | Centenary Square Was: 52.4796°N 1.9072°W |
1990 | David Patten | Stone | Birmingham City Council | Commemorates John Baskerville.[3] Was removed to storage during May 2017 [38] and was later reinstalled outside of Baskerville House during January / February 2019. | |||
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King Edward VII Memorial | Centenary Square 52.479761°N 1.906921°W |
1913 | Albert Toft | statue | Stone | Grade II listed[39] | Birmingham City Council | Moved from Highgate Park for restoration in 2009. Reerected in Centenary Square, near Baskerville House in 2011. |
Hall of Memory
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Air Force | Hall of Memory Centenary Square 52.479371°N 1.907161°W |
1925 | Albert Toft | statue | Bronze | Grade I listed[40] | Birmingham City Council | |||
Army | Hall of Memory Centenary Square 52.479455°N 1.906974°W |
1925 | Albert Toft | statue | Bronze | Grade I listed[40] | Birmingham City Council | |||
Navy | Hall of Memory Centenary Square 52.479356°N 1.907028°W |
1925 | Albert Toft | statue | Bronze | Grade I listed[40] | Birmingham City Council | |||
Women's Services | Hall of Memory Centenary Square 52.479508°N 1.907051°W |
1925 | Albert Toft | statue | Bronze | Grade I listed[40] | Birmingham City Council | |||
Call – Frontline – Return | Hall of Memory Centenary Square 52.479508°N 1.907051°W |
1925 | William Bloye | statue | Stone | Grade I listed[40] | Birmingham City Council | High on the walls over the three doorways are the three carved Art Deco bas-relief plaques |
Library of Birmingham
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Spirit of Enterprise | 1991 | Tom Lomax | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Was in Centenary Square;[3] As of 2013 in storage at the Birmingham Museum Collections Centre | |||||
Forward | Centenary Square 52.479113°N 1.908175°W |
1991 | Raymond Mason | Statue | Fibreglass | [3] Statue was destroyed by arson on 17 April 2003 | |||||
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A Real Birmingham Family | Centenary Square 52.479113°N 1.908175°W |
2014 | Gillian Wearing | Statue | Bronze | Ikon Gallery & Library of Birmingham | Q18437761 | The statue was removed to storage in late May 2017 [41] and was returned during April 2019, but without grass surrounding it. [42] |
Symphony Hall
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Boulton, Watt and Murdoch | 1956 | William Bloye | statues | Gilded Bronze | Statues 285cm high | Birmingham City Council | Q4949742 | Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch [43] The statue has been in storage since late August 2017.[44] It's been in storage since 23 August 2017.[45] Due to the Symphony Hall redevelopment it won't be back in Centenary Square until sometime in 2021?[46][3] |
Broad Street
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Inner Spirit | Regency Wharf – Broad Street 52.478173°N 1.909734°W |
2001 | Amanda Brisbane | Sculpture | Between the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Regency Wharf | ||||||
Reflex Transformer | Reflex / 80s Bar – Broad Street 52.47811°N 1.910749°W |
2011 | Sculpture | Reflex Broad Street (Stonegate Pub Company) | Inspired by the 1980s Transformers cartoon and toy line | ||||||
Quayside Tower Reliefs | Podium of Quayside Tower, Broad Street 52.477277°N 1.911278°W |
1965 | William Mitchell | Abstract Reliefs | Concrete | Architect, John Madin commissioned Mitchell in 1965. There are approximately 20 panels on the podium structure. | |||||
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HSBC lions | HSBC UK, One Centenary Square 52.478808°N 1.907201°W |
2018 | Sculpture | Bronze | Pair of bronze lions outside the new HSBC UK offices at Arena Central. | |||||
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Black Sabbath Bench | Black Sabbath Bridge, Broad Street 52.477811°N 1.910858°W |
2019 | Tarek Abdelkawi | Bench | Bench above the Broad Street Tunnel. Bridge renamed Black Sabbath Bridge. The Black Sabbath Bench includes images of Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward.[47] Removed to storage from late October 2019 until December 2020 for the West Midlands Metro extension to Five Ways |
The ICC
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Battle of Gods and Giants | The ICC (opposite Brindleyplace) 52.478406°N 1.911511°W |
1990 | Roderick Tye | sculpture | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | It was intended to symbolise Birmingham's struggle to rebuild its centre. | |||
Smeaton 1792 | ICC Energy Centre 52.479219°N 1.912865°W |
1986 | sculpture | Birmingham City Council | Engineer of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal (between 1782 to 1789) | |||||
Telford 1834 | ICC Energy Centre 52.479219°N 1.912865°W |
1986 | sculpture | Birmingham City Council | Engineer of the Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line (from 1824 to 1827) |
Brindleyplace
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Aqueduct | Central Square, Brindleyplace 52.477988°N 1.9139°W |
1995 | Miles Davies | sculpture | Bronze phosphor | Brindleyplace | It was the winning entry in the Brindleyplace PLC competition with the Royal Society of British Sculptors. It is in two pieces, and is in the form of an aqueduct.[48] | |||
Pergola sculpture | Oozells Square, Brindleyplace 52.477412°N 1.912823°W |
1998 | Paul de Monchaux | sculpture | Stone | Brindleyplace | Directly opposite the Ikon Gallery | |||
Future | Cumberland Street – Brindleyplace 52.477032°N 1.912983°W |
2004 | Robert Bowers | sculpture / statue | Bronze | Brindleyplace | Located between 8 Brindleyplace and 10 Brindleyplace | |||
Gates | Sheepcote Street – Brindleyplace 52.476467°N 1.914586°W |
1995 | Miles Davies | sculpture | Bronze phosphor | Brindleyplace | On the roundabout on Sheepcote Street, close to Brunswick Square and the Brasshouse Language Centre |
The Cube
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Diving Sculpture | Waterfront Walk – Worcester & Birmingham Canal, opposite The Cube 52.4752°N 1.907826°W |
2006 | Cathy Lewis | statue | Bronze | Charles Church Developments | Near the Register Office – Holliday Wharf | |||
The Lovely People – Urban | The Cube 52.475213°N 1.906956°W |
2010 | Temper | statue | Bronze | The Cube | ||||
Pen nib | Washington Wharf opposite Waterfront Walk – Worcester & Birmingham Canal 52.474801°N 1.908166°W |
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The Mailbox
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Anglepoise | Entrance to The Mailbox, Birmingham 52.4758624°N 1.9045711°W |
2014 | Holmes Wood, consultancy | Sculpture |
Five Ways
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Joseph Sturge memorial | Five Ways Island in front of the Marriott Hotel (near Harborne Road) 52.472195°N 1.919195°W |
1862 | John Thomas | statue | Portland stone | Grade II listed[49] | Birmingham City Council | Q15980195 | Commemorates Joseph Sturge. Restored in 2007 | |
Stainless Steel Sculpture | Five Ways Island 52.472923°N 1.918478°W |
1973 | Alexander Mann | sculpture | Stainless steel | Birmingham City Council | |||||
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Claude Auchinleck | Outside Park Regis Hotel - Broad Street, Birmingham 52.473414°N 1.917035°W |
1965 | Fiore De Henriques | Statue | Bronze | Park Regis Hotel Birmingham | [50] Went into storage between 2013 and 2015 during the revelopment of the Five Ways Shopping Centre into the Park Regis Hotel. It was moved to a different location close to Broad Street in November 2015. The hotel will open by March 2016.[51] |
Ladywood
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Charles Blondin | Ladywood Middleway 52.4766°N 1.9251°W |
1993 | Paul Richardson | statue | Steel | Birmingham City Council | ||||
The Galloping Courier | Tesco – Spring Hill, Ladywood 52.485124°N 1.920191°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
The Nonsens | Ladywood Middleway, Spring Hill, Ladywood 52.484478°N 1.920468°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
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Peace Garden railings | St. Thomas' Peace Garden 52.4734°N 1.9060°W |
1995 | Anuradha Patel | Railings and gates | Steel | Steel gates and railings. With help from the students of Lea Mason Church of England Secondary School and other groups [52] | |||
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Cutting Edge | Northbrook Street 52.485661°N 1.932223°W |
2006 | Anuradha Patel | Railings | Steel | Steel railings above the Birmingham Canal Main Line.[53] |
Highgate
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Beorma Ingas Ham | Gooch Street Bridge, Highgate 52.466434°N 1.892721°W |
2006 | Steve Field RBSA | Pair of decorative arches | Steel | Birmingham City Council | On a bridge over the Rea, marking the spot nearby where Birmingham was first settled | ||
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Highgate entrance sculptures | Belgrave Middleway near Horton Square, Highgate 52.464937°N 1.892020°W |
2001 | Steve Field RBSA | Pair of sculptures | Steel | Birmingham City Council | The left side has "aet thaere" on it. The right side has "ea" on it. |
Eastside / Aston University
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Hebe | James Watt Queensway 52.484385°N 1.892165°W |
1966 | Robert Thomas | statue | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Used to be in Holloway Circus, before being moved to James Watt Queensway, with a new surround, by Anuradha Patel.[54] | ||
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Inside Tempus Fugit | Aston University Library 52.485831°N 1.888826°W |
2004 | Ray Lonsdale | bust | Stainless steel | Aston University | Previously near the Aston University Day Hospital, now in front of the Aston University Library.[55] There is a figure of a small boy inside the head [56] | ||
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Peace Sculpture | The lake near Lakeside – Aston University 52.484005°N 1.889466°W |
1985 | William Pye | Sculpture / fountain | Stainless steel | Aston University | Commissioned by West Midlands County Council; originally for Ackers Park,[57][58] | ||
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Tipping Triangles | Behind the main building of Aston University 52.487022°N 1.888377°W |
1994 | Angela Conner | Sculpture / fountain | Stainless steel | 5.4m high | Aston University | Provides beauty and tranquillity whilst using the university's triangle symbol [59][60] | |
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Aston Stones | Various locations around Aston University 52.485714°N 1.887723°W |
1975 | - 1977John Maine | Sculpture | Portland stone | heights range from 1.05m to 1.35m | Aston University | A series of five abstract Portland stones on different parts of the campus [61] | |
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All the books I should have read | Near the new Aston Students Union, Lakeside, Aston University 52.485233°N 1.889364°W |
March 27, 2019 | Marko Mäetamm | Sculpture | Aston University | ||||
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Eastside City Park | Eastside City Park 52.4820°N 1.8877°W |
2012 | Patel Taylor | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | [62] |
Digbeth
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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J. F. Kennedy Memorial | Floodgate Street, Digbeth 52.474950°N 1.886312°W |
1968 | Kenneth Budd | Mosaic mural | 4.5 by 14 metres (15 by 46 ft) | Birmingham City Council | Q6105672 | Commemorates John F. Kennedy | ||
Green Man | Custard Factory – Gibb Street, Digbeth 52.475212°N 1.883821°W |
2002 | Tawny Gray | statue | Stone Vegetation | Custard Factory | |||||
Dragon | Custard Factory – Digbeth 52.475327°N 1.884337°W |
1993 | Tawny Gray | Sculpture | Mild steel | Custard Factory | [63] | ||||
Lion | Custard Factory – Digbeth 52.475246°N 1.884187°W |
Sculpture | Wood | Custard Factory | |||||||
The Deluge | Custard Factory – Digbeth 52.475115°N 1.884311°W |
2010 | Toin Adams | Sculpture | Bronze | Custard Factory | [64] | ||||
Canal Mural | Opposite The Bond – Grand Union Canal – Digbeth 52.478704°N 1.881228°W |
2014 | Paul Hirst & Graffiti 4 Hire | Mural | Spray paint | The Bond | Photo on Flickr The Bond mural |
Southside
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Horsefair, 1908 | Holloway Circus 52.474918°N 1.900173°W |
1967 | Kenneth Budd | Mosaic mural | Birmingham City Council | ||||
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Chinese Pagoda | Holloway Circus 52.474853°N 1.900416°W |
1998 | Chinese pagoda | Stone | Birmingham City Council | The pagoda was carved in Fujian, a province of China. It was donated to the city, and forms a landmark of the nearby Chinese Quarter. | |||
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Chinese Guardian dogs | Holloway Circus 52.474906°N 1.900645°W |
Sculpture | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | |||||
Marilyn Monroe | Missing - Hurst Street in the Gay Quarter 52.473735°N 1.896077°W |
Statue | Missing Bar | It has been on the wall of Missing since at least 2009 or earlier. | ||||||
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Rhinestone Rhino | Hurst Street and Bromsgrove Street in the Gay Quarter 52.473365°N 1.896056°W |
2012 | Emma Butler, Vikki Litton and Robbie Coleman | Sculpture | polystyrene mould, carved into a rhino shape and then coated in fibreglass. | Southside BID | Unveiled in time for Birmingham Pride in June 2012 [65] |
Jewellery Quarter
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Clockwork | Jewellery Quarter station, Vyse Street, Hockley (Jewellery Quarter) 52.4894°N 1.912775°W |
2004 | Mick Thacker and Mark Renn | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||
Padlock | Newhall Hill – Jewellery Quarter 52.482547°N 1.910892°W |
2000 | Mick Thacker and Mark Renn | sculpture | Steel | [66] | ||||
RBSA bronze plaques | Royal Birmingham Society of Artists – 4 Brook Street, Jewellery Quarter 52.484891°N 1.907520°W |
1919 | William Bloye | Bronze plaques | Bronze | Royal Birmingham Society of Artists | Formerly at the Society's old headquarters on New Street[1] | |||
The Jewellery Quarter – Newhall Street Gateway | Newhall Street with Lionel Street, Jewellery Quarter 52.483116°N 1.905140°W |
2003 | Anuradha Patel | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | ||||
The Jewellery Quarter – Vyse Street Gateway | Vyse Street with Great Hampton Street, Jewellery Quarter 52.491351°N 1.911202°W |
2003 | Anuradha Patel | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | ||||
The Jewellery Quarter – Hall Street Gateway | Hall Street with Great Hampton Street, Jewellery Quarter 52.488958°N 1.907824°W |
2003 | Anuradha Patel | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | ||||
Manangel | The Jam House – 3 – 5 St Paul's Square, Jewellery Quarter 52.484955°N 1.904872°W |
2001 | David Begbie | Sculpture | wire-mesh | The Jam House | Looks like a netted angel. It was missing since August 2016 [67] but as of January 2017 it is back | |||
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Peaky Blinders | Assay Lofts - Charlotte Street at St Paul's Square 52.484320°N 1.905803°W |
2019 | Paul Margetts | Statue | Bronze | Eleven Property Group | Sitting on a ledge of an open window.[68] Assay Lofts complete and ready to open in December 2019 [69] |
Gun Quarter
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Swing | It was at St Chad's Circus | 1988 | Kevin Atherton | Sculpture | Mild steel (electro-plated) | Birmingham City Council | Was in St Chad's Circus from 1990, but the site has since been redeveloped and has been removed [70] |
Acocks Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Acocks Green Village in Bloom - Gold | Acocks Green Village Green 52.446270°N 1.823506°W |
May 2017 | Veronica Treadwell | Sculpture | Acocks Green Village BID | Based on the design of a tree. Represents a canal, then a railway [71] | |||
Fox and Holly | Corner of Olton Boulevard East and Shaftmoor Lane in Acocks Green 52.443973°N 1.834728°W |
2003 | Rosemary Terry | Public transport interchange | Wood & Steel | West Midlands Network | Named after the Fox Hollies area that it is in. The name dates back to 1465. | |||
Fox and Hollybush | Lidl – Olton Boulevard East, Acocks Green 52.444116°N 1.834154°W |
1927 | William Bloye | relief sculpture | sandstone | It used to be on the wall of now demolished Fox and Hollybush pub. Now on the left of Lidl, in the Fox Hollies area of Acocks Green. | ||||
Fox Hollies Lidl sculpture | Lidl – Summer Road & Olton Boulevard East, Acocks Green 52.444198°N 1.834239°W |
Sculpture / railings | Painted steel | |||||||
Sculpture of a bird on the Great Western pub | Great Western – 10 Yardley Road, Acocks Green 52.450171°N 1.819085°W |
Stone | ||||||||
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John Bridgeman play sculpture | Curtis Gardens, Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Green 52.440554°N 1.835103°W |
c1960 | John Bridgeman | Sculpture | Concrete | Grade II listed since 2015[72][73] | Birmingham City Council | ||
Westley Vale Millennium Green mural | Westley Vale Millennium Green - The Avenue, Acocks Green 52.449140°N 1.815860°W |
2015 | Hoakser | Mural | Spray paint | Westley Vale Millennium Green, Community First & Arts in the Yard | See photo on Flickr Westley Vale Millennium Green mural |
Aston
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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William McGregor | Villa Park – Trinity Road, Aston 52.508744°N 1.886341°W |
2009 | Sam Holland | statue | Bronze | Aston Villa | ||||
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Face to Face | Waterlinks Boulevard with Park Circus, Aston 52.501829°N 1.882975°W |
1993 | Ray Smith | Sculpture | Painted steel | 600 x 400cm | Birmingham City Council | One of the Gateway to Heartlands sculptures [74] |
Newtown
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Lucas' Lion, Wheel, and Flambear emblem | 36, Wheeler Street, Newtown 52.49603°N 1.90376°W |
November 1998 | John McKenna | Stainless steel | Midland Area Housing Association | On the side of house, built on the site of the former Lucas factory.[75][76] | ||||
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Joseph Lucas Monument | Great King Street North, Newtown 52.494549°N 1.908981°W |
1994 | Sculpture | Slate | 3m x 60cm x 1m | It's on the site of what was the Tom Bowling Lamp Factory that was in Little King Street from 1872.[75][77] | |||
Burbury Park sculpture | Burbury Park, Newtown 52.497115°N 1.904381°W |
Stainless steel | ||||||||
Mondobongo | Corner of High Street and Burlington Street in Newtown 52.498694°N 1.895002°W |
Mark Renn & Mick Thacker | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | |||||
An even bigger splash! | Newtown Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre, High Street, Newtown 52.499162°N 1.895976°W |
Mark Renn & Mick Thacker | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network |
Bartley Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Talking about the Weather | Field Lane, Bartley Green opposite Romsley Road 52.434333°N 2.004596°W |
2004 | Pamina Stewart, Mark Renn & Mick Thacker | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | |||
Bus bench sculpture | Corner of Romsley Road and Field Lane, Bartley Green 52.434678°N 2.005113°W |
Bench | Painted Steel | West Midlands Network | Is near the Bartley Green bus terminus area | |||||
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The Globe | Newman University, Genners Lane, Bartley Green 52.433050°N 1.994405°W |
May 2012 | Julie Edwards & Ron Thompson of Planet Art | Globe sculpture | Stainless steel | Newman University | The Globe represents how Newman University is recognised globally with international links and worldwide connections [78] | ||
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Remains of a Pyramid | Senneleys Park, Bartley Green 52.436911°N 1.986123°W |
1989 | - 1991Avtarjeet Dhanjal | Sculpture | Portland stone | 10 x 10 x 2.5m high | Birmingham City Council | The bronze figure is missing [79] |
Billesley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Swan of Swan Corner | Roundabout at Brook Lane (between Coldbath Road and Wheelers Lane), Billesley 52.431192°N 1.876752°W |
2014 | swan sculpture | Wood | Swan Corner | Unveiled by members of Swan Corner on 18 November 2014 [80]
As of January 2017, the head and half of the neck is missing |
Bordesley Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Juggernaut | Victoria Street, Bordesley Green 52.47654°N 1.856401°W |
2004 | Mick Thacker and Mark Renn | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||
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Sleeping Iron Giant | Garrison Lane, Bordesley Green 52.476064°N 1.860902°W |
1992 | Ondre Nowakowski | Sculpture | Iron, sintered, Polyester resin, on steel reinforced frame | 1.4 x 2.44m | Birmingham City Council | A metaphor for a site with an historic background of manufacturing industry.[81] |
Bournville
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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George Cadbury | Friends Meeting House – Linden Road, Bournville 52.430372°N 1.935903°W |
1924 | Francis Wood | bust | Bronze | Bournville Village Trust | Seen from the Bournville Village Green | |||
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Terpischore | Cadbury Factory grounds – Bournville Lane, Bournville 52.427796°N 1.932671°W |
1932 | William Bloye | Statue on a fountain | Bronze | Cadbury | [82] |
Castle Vale
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Sentinel | Spitfire Island 52.513297°N 1.798673°W |
2000 | Tim Tolkien | Steel |
Cotteridge
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Feathers Of Freedom | Near Sophies – Pershore Road South, Cotteridge 52.415796°N 1.930945°W |
2001 | Paula Woof | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | There is also similar feathers sculpture as the entrance of the overflow car park at Kings Norton Station | |||
Cotteridge Park mural | Railway bridge leading into Cotteridge Park near Breedon Road, Cotteridge 52.419742°N 1.926491°W |
2012 | Daniel "Newso" Lickiss | Mural | Spray paint | Friends of Cotteridge Park, Birmingham City Council & Network Rail | Created to prevent vandalism and graffiti on the bridge [83] Please see the photos here on Flickr Cotteridge Park – railway bridge – artwork – dogs – dalmatian |
Duddeston
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Face #1 | Duddeston Station 52.487873°N 1.871457°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Face #2 | Duddeston Station 52.487873°N 1.871457°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Face #3 | Duddeston Station 52.487873°N 1.871457°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Hand | Duddeston Station 52.487873°N 1.871457°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Red Amber Green | Duddeston Station 52.487873°N 1.871457°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Diving Bodies | Duddeston Station 52.488673°N 1.871071°W |
sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
Youth | Melvina Road, Duddeston 52.491864°N 1.870223°W |
1958 | Harry Seager | statue | Concrete | Birmingham City Council | [84] |
Edgbaston
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Edgbaston Interchange | Priory Road, Edgbaston, near Bristol Road (and Century Tower) 52.455746°N 1.909746°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | Removed due to the construction of the A38 Cycleway for Birmingham Cycle Revolution (which opened in Summer 2019) | |||||
Map of Edgbaston | Morrisons – near Harborne Road, Edgbaston 52.471475°N 1.921268°W |
2013 | sculpture | Steel | Morrisons | Fountain with leaf design on the reverse | ||||
Robert Peel | Outside Tally Ho – Pershore Road, Edgbaston 52.454546°N 1.907328°W |
1855 | Peter Hollins | statue | Bronze | Grade II listed[85] | Birmingham City Council | Originally on Congreve Street, then moved to Council House Square in 1873 (now Victoria Square). Moved to Calthorpe Park in 1926. Then to Pershore Road in 1963. Original plinth still in Calthorpe Park. |
Cannon Hill Park
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial | Cannon Hill Park 52.453264°N 1.90099°W |
1905 | Albert Toft | war memorial statue | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Refurbished in 2012 | ||
Golfer | Golden Putter Mini-Golf, Cannon Hill Park 52.452937°N 1.901794°W |
2014 | statue | Birmingham City Council | A new 36 hole course opened at Cannon Hill Park in 2014 [86] | |||||
Nature Centre Sign | Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, Pershore Road, Edgbaston 52.450345°N 1.910847°W |
1990 | Sheila Carter and Family | Sculpture | Wrought iron, egg-shell black finish and gold leaf highlights | Birmingham City Council | A large circle representing the months of the year.[87] | |||
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Infinite Wave | Cannon Hill Park 52.449438°N 1.903875°W |
2019 | George King Architects | Memorial sculpture | Stainless steel | Memorial to the British victim of the 2015 Bardo National Museum attack and 30 British victims of the 2015 Sousse attacks in Tunisia, unveiled on 4 March 2019 by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.[88][89] |
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Mother and Child | Birmingham Women's Hospital 52.453697°N 1.942062°W |
1999 | Terry McDonald | statue | Fiberglass and resin | Birmingham Women's Hospital | ||||
The Future | Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 52.451473°N 1.94124°W |
2013 | Richard Thornton | sculpture | Stainless steel | Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham | A competition was held in 2012 to name it.[90] In the shape of a Double Helix. Celebrates the coming together of the previous hospitals on one site [56] | |||
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The Good Samaritan | Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 52.451350°N 1.940686°W |
1963 | Uli Nimptsch | statue | Bronze | Moved in 2014 to a path between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University of Birmingham in Edgbaston [91] |
University of Birmingham
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Equestrian Statue Of George I | Barber Institute of Fine Arts – Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston 52.450072°N 1.92715°W |
1722 | John van Nost the Elder | statue | Bronze | Grade II listed[92] | Barber Institute of Fine Arts | Commissioned for Dublin in 1717. Brought by Thomas Bodkin, first director of the Barber Institute in 1937, and brought to its present location [93] | |
Beethoven, Virgil, Michelangelo, Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Watt, Faraday and Darwin | Over the main entrance of the Aston Webb building, Chancellor’s Court, University of Birmingham 52.449261°N 1.930518°W |
1907 | Henry Pegram | frieze of nine life-size statues | Darley Dale stone | University of Birmingham | [93] | |||
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Faraday | Westgate, University of Birmingham 52.450534°N 1.936202°W |
2000 | Sir Eduardo Paolozzi | statue | Bronze | University of Birmingham | [93] | ||
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Semi abstract sculpture | University Road West, University of Birmingham 52.450398°N 1.935131°W |
Peter Leadbeater | sculpture | wood | University of Birmingham | A celebration of the various branches of the university's endeavours as well as various logo that have reliant connection to the university [94] | |||
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Ancestor 1 | University Square, University of Birmingham 52.451030°N 1.930908°W |
1970 | Dame Barbara Hepworth | sculpture | Bronze | University of Birmingham | [93] | ||
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Girl in a Hat | Chancellor's Court, University of Birmingham 52.449787°N 1.931377°W |
1972 | Bernard Sindall | statue | Bronze | University of Birmingham | It was presented by Sir Robert & Lady Aitken on 22 October 1974 [93] | ||
Engineering Frieze | School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham 52.448993°N 1.933668°W |
1954 | William Bloye | Frieze | Stone | University of Birmingham | [93] | |||
The Wrestlers | School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham 52.449411°N 1.933539°W |
1950 | Edward Bainbridge-Copnall | Sculpture | Granite | University of Birmingham | [93] | |||
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Mermaid Fountain | Mermaid Square, the Guild of Students, University of Birmingham 52.449274°N 1.927206°W |
1961 | William Bloye | Sculpture | Bronze and stone | University of Birmingham | [93] | ||
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Woman for Heidelberg | Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham 52.449456°N 1.924796°W |
1987 | Michael Sandle | Statue | Bronze | University of Birmingham | [93] It's in the Business School Garden |
Erdington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Sir Josiah Mason | Island at Chester Road and Orphanage Road in Erdington 52.531575°N 1.825115°W |
1951 | William Bloye | bust | Bronze | Birmingham City Council | Recast by William Bloye in 1951, from an 1885 statue by Francis John Williamson (now lost).[1] | |||
Insect and Celtic Cross | Erdington Station 52.527844°N 1.839714°W |
1998 | Ronald Rae | sculpture | Stone | West Midlands Network | [95] | |||
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The Feast | McDonald's – corner of Chester Road and Sutton Road, Erdington 52.533068°N 1.828880°W |
Anuradha Patel | Screen | Represents a community coming together to celebrate [96] |
Garretts Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Fire Fighters | Sheldon Community Fire Station - Garretts Green Lane, Garretts Green 52.477325°N 1.780816°W |
1954 | Robert Pancheri | Mural | Stone | West Midlands Fire Service | The fire station opened in December 1956. It was the first fire station to open in Birmingham after World War II.[97] |
Great Barr
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Moonstones | Periphery of Asda supermarket, Queslett Road 52.55273°N 1.90862°W |
Steve Field | Carvings | Sandstone | Set of eight memorials to members of the Lunar Society | ||||
Beech Beacon | Shipway – Walsall Road, Great Barr 52.54455°N 1.931045°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
The Towers | Tower Hill, Great Barr 52.53567°N 1.92044°W |
1936 | William Bloye | Stone | Front of pub. Bloye was responsible for all the stone carving on this brick building[1] | |||||
The Towers | Tower Hill, Great Barr 52.53553°N 1.92072°W |
1936 | William Bloye | Stone | Rear of pub. Bloye was responsible for all the stone carving on this brick building[1] |
Harborne
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Huntsman and Dog | The Green Man, High Street, Harborne 52.46138°N 1.94301°W |
c. 1940 | William Bloye | pub sign | Wood | Painted wooden pub sign.[1] | ||||
The Olympic Diamond | High Street, Harborne 52.460174°N 1.944817°W |
2012 | The children of St Mary's Catholic Primary School and Harborne Primary School. | mosaic | Commemorates the London 2012 Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen [98] |
Hall Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Dragon bench sculpture | Hall Green Library – Stratford Road, Hall Green 52.433768°N 1.846332°W |
Students of Hall Green School (?) | bench sculpture | Wood | Hall Green Library | Might be based on Smaug from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (who lived nearby in Sarehole in the early 1900s (as a small boy). | ||||
Middle Earth | Hall Green Library – Stratford Road, Hall Green 52.433649°N 1.846326°W |
Mural | Hall Green Library | Mural inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien who lived nearby in the early 1900s in the Sarehole area | ||||||
Dragonfly heart Mosaic | Greet Mill Meadow - Shire Country Park - Stratford Road, Hall Green 52.443154°N 1.855466°W |
mosaic | Glass tiles | Birmingham City Council | Not far from the Stratford Road bridge and the River Cole | |||||
Fish Mosaic | Greet Mill Meadow - Shire Country Park - Green Road, Hall Green 52.436741°N 1.855766°W |
mosaic | Glass tiles | Birmingham City Council | Close to the flooded part of the River Cole on Green Road |
Handsworth
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Tulip Tree | Barn Lane and Soho Road, Handsworth 52.503758°N 1.937298°W |
Public transport interchange | Wood | West Midlands Network | ||||||
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Under the Sun | Soho Hill, corner of St. Michaels Road 52.500784°N 1.923367°W |
2010 | Saranjit Birdi | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | |||
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SS Journey | Handsworth Park 52.510906°N 1.922555°W |
6 October 2017 | Luke Perry | Sculpture | Bronze and steel | Friends of Handsworth Park | Part of the Handsworth Park Arts Trail | ||
Handsworth Park | November 2018 | Claire Cotterill | Mosaic mural | Ceramic | On an external wall of the "Sons of Rest" building, commemorates that movements foundation in the park.[100][101] |
Hockley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Climbing wall | Hockley Flyover 52.4954°N 1.9153°W |
1968 | William Mitchell | Cast concrete | Birmingham City Council | [102] | |||
Coin Stack | Soho Hill – Hockley Circus – Hockley 52.496024°N 1.915815°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network |
Kings Heath
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Wing Wheel | Alcester Road South, Kings Heath (opposite The Crown pub) 52.421178°N 1.891827°W |
2004 | Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | The Kings Heath Interchange. Relates to the theme of journey and literal references to transport |
Kings Norton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Feathers | Kings Norton Station overflow car park 52.413557°N 1.935618°W |
Paula Woof | Sculpture | Steel | West Midlands Network | Pair of steel feathers above height barriers. Also a feather above a mosaic on the ground | ||||
Kings Norton Past to Present | Far footbridge – Kings Norton Station 52.413977°N 1.935331°W |
2012 | Daniel "Newso" Lickiss (with Adeela Ahmad of Kings Norton Girls School and Oliver Blackburn, of Kings Norton Boys School) | Mural | Spray paint | West Midlands Network, Birmingham City Council & Network Rail | Footbridge given a makeover by local graffiti artist [103] See photo on Flickr Kings Norton Past to Present |
Kingstanding
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Mysterious Green Man | Roundabout between Kingstanding Road and Kings Road, Kingstanding 52.552728°N 1.88399°W |
2004 | Jason Cleverly | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||
The Multi Faceted Green Man | Roundabout between Kingstanding Road and Rough Road, Kingstanding 52.553363°N 1.883805°W |
2004 | Jason Cleverly | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network |
Longbridge
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Genie of Industry | Longbridge Lane, Longbridge 52.395518°N 1.982321°W |
John McKenna | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | It's close to Longbridge Station, was formerly on the other side of the road (was moved in 2014) |
Lozells
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Royal Oak | Former pub – Lozells 52.502687°N 1.900501°W |
c. 1936 | William Bloye | Stone | Decoration around the doorway of a former pub (now a shop). Formerly brightly painted.[1] |
Moseley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Spirit | Alcester Road, Moseley outside Boots 52.44662°N 1.888312°W |
2003 | Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||
Cascading Mountain | Corner of Yardley Wood Road and Wake Green Road in Moseley 52.442842°N 1.871585°W |
2004 | Anuradha Patel | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||
Moseley Bog and Joy's Wood gates and height barrier | Moseley Bog – Yardley Wood Road, Moseley 52.436234°N 1.868888°W |
2012 | Adrian Moakes | Gates and height barrier | Steel | Birmingham City Council | Unveiled in December 2012 [104] |
Nechells
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Lanchester Car Monument | Bloomsbury Village Green – Heartlands (Nechells) 52.4930°N 1.8729°W |
1995 | Tim Tolkien | Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council | Commemorates the work of Frederick William Lanchester | ||
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White Curl | Dartmouth Middleway corner with Richard Street, Heartlands (Nechells) 52.490642°N 1.886119°W |
1992 | Suzi Gregory | Sculpture | Mild steel, painted white | 7 x 2 m | Birmingham City Council | One of the Gateway to Heartlands sculptures [105] |
Northfield
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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All Seasons Tree | Northfield Station 52.408045°N 1.966128°W |
1993 | Rosemary Terry | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | |||
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Town and Country | Northfield Station 52.408137°N 1.965445°W |
1993 | Rosemary Terry | Sculpture | Disused railway sleepers | West Midlands Network | Eleven components based on images of the town and country. The town at one end, the country at the other.[106] There is also a similar sculpture near the entrance to the station car park | ||
Black Horse | Black Horse pub garden 52.412036°N 1.973911°W |
Sculpture | Steel | Made from car parts from the nearby Longbridge plant |
Perry Barr
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Boar's Head | The Boar's Head, Perry Barr 52.529153°N 1.895465°W |
c. 1938 | William Bloye | Wood | Painted pub sign comprising a model boar's head, on a pole.[1] Taken from the arms of the Gough-Calthorpe family of nearby Perry Hall | |||||
Running stag | Perry Barr Stadium 52.519192°N 1.897717°W |
1929 | William Bloye; attributed[1] | Bas-relief | Stone | Logo of Birchfield Harriers.[1] Attributed.[1] | ||||
Holy Family | St Matthew's, Perry Beeches 52.539307°N 1.895437°W |
Nicholas Mynheer | Sculpture | Stone | St Matthew's, Perry Beeches | Installed 2011, but made earlier.[107] |
Quinton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Children's play sculpture | Four Dwellings Academy, Quinton Road West, Quinton 52.455878°N 2.001690°W |
John Bridgeman | Sculpture | Concrete | Four Dwellings Academy | Seen on the grounds of Four Dwellings Academy on the lawn at the corner of Quinton Road West and Dwellings Lane |
Saltley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Circular Dance | Washwood Heath Road, Saltley 52.4919°N 1.859306°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network |
Selly Oak
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Cantoo | Selly Oak Station 52.441976°N 1.936239°W |
Eric Klein Velderman & Paula Woof | pyramid sculpture | Steel cage, filled with coal | West Midlands Network | A monument to the industries of the area[108] |
Sheldon
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
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Dakota Bust | Corner of Coventry Road and Sheaf Lane in Sheldon 52.452011°N 1.782194°W |
2004 | Pete Whitehouse | Public transport interchange | Steel and aluminium | West Midlands Network | |||
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Wheatsheaf | Travelodge, Hobs Moat Road, Sheldon 52.451373°N 1.78237°W |
2003 | Claire Davies | Public transport interchange | Stainless steel and brass | West Midlands Network |
Small Heath
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Pomegranate Dress | Coventry Road, Small Heath 52.469001°N 1.856862°W |
2004 | Jennifer Collier | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | Commissioned by Centro in 2003. A metal fabricated dress [109] |
South Yardley
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Library Emblem | South Yardley Library, Yardley Road, South Yardley 52.461°N 1.816°W |
1938 | William Bloye | library emblem | Stone | Birmingham City Council | [110] |
Sparkbrook
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Mirror Image | Near Aldi – Stratford Road, Sparkbrook 52.459232°N 1.871639°W |
John Vaughan | Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | ||||||
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Thomas Attwood | Was formerly in Larches Green, Sparkbrook | 1859 | Peter Hollins | statue | Marble | Grade II listed[111] | Birmingham City Council | Q26340380 | The statue formerly stood in Calthorpe Park. It was heavily vandalised and was moved to storage in 2008.[112] |
Sparkhill
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Bulrushes | Springfield Primary School – corner of College Road and Stratford Road in Sparkhill 52.443399°N 1.856741°W |
Public transport interchange | Steel | West Midlands Network | It is in the Springfield part of Sparkhill near the no 1 and 6 bus routes | |||||
The Bear | The Bear – Stratford Road, Sparkhill 52.448235°N 1.861201°W |
c. 1937 | William Bloye | Bas-relief | Pub sign, depicting feature of the arms of Warwickshire, in which the area was located at the time of installation.[1] | |||||
The Antelope | Hajees Spices – Stratford Road, Sparkhill 52.453362°N 1.865753°W |
c. 1929 | William Bloye | Bas-relief pub sign | Designed by Bloye, sculpted by his assistant, Tom Wright[1] | |||||
The Mermaid | (Formerly) The President Restaurant – Stratford Road, Sparkhill 52.456861°N 1.868761°W |
c. 1960 | William Bloye | Bas-relief pub sign | The President Restaurant burnt down twice.[113] The sculpture is no longer on the building |
Stockland Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Peace Dove | Brookvale Park 52.521530°N 1.868958°W |
2004 | Michael Scheuermann | Sculpture | Stone | Birmingham City Council | Referred to as "Peace Monument" on the artist's website.[114][115] | ||
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Duck and Reed sculptures | Brookvale Park 52.516584°N 1.861267°W |
Sculpture | Steel | Birmingham City Council |
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Sutton Coldfield
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Sutton Coldfield Library Mural | Sutton Coldfield Library - Red Rose Centre 52.562269°N 1.823012°W |
1974 | Mural | Birmingham City Council | |||||
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War Memorial | Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, King Edward's Square, Sutton Coldfield 52.566067°N 1.824304°W |
1922 | Francis Doyle-Jones | War memorial statue | Bronze | Grade II listed[116] | Birmingham City Council | ||
Cycle Park | Sutton Coldfield Station 52.565024°N 1.825351°W |
Sculpture | Network West Midlands | |||||||
Sutton Coldfield coat of arms | Vesey Gardens, Sutton Coldfield 52.564515°N 1.821853°W |
Coat of arms | The arms were officially granted in 1935. They were later incorporated into Birmingham from 1974 [117] | |||||||
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Nicola Dixon Memorial | Trinity Hill, Sutton Coldfield 52.563817°N 1.821294°W |
2001 | Sculpture | Birmingham City Council | Nicola Dixon was a 17 year old school girl murdered on New Year's Eve 1996. The memorial was unveiled by her parents in 2001 based on one her own pieces of artwork [118] | ||||
Between The Parade and Newhall Walk Retail Park, Sutton Coldfield 52.561359°N 1.824128°W |
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The Rollerskaters | Hollyfield Primary School, Sutton Coldfield 52.562065°N 1.800926°W |
1982 | John Robinson | Statue | Bronze | Previously in the Gracechurch shopping centre [119] | ||||
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Wyndley Swimming Baths | 1921 | Statue | Bronze | Plaque reads: "This statue which formerly stood in Sutton Park, was presented to the borough in 1921 by the Boldmere Swimming Club in memory of club members who fell in the 1914-1918 war". |
Winson Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Traveller | Summerfield Community Centre – Dudley Road, Winson Green 52.486599°N 1.938775°W |
2001 | Juginder Lamba | Public transport interchange | Wood | West Midlands Network | [120] An arm has been missing since 2015 or 2016. | ||
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James Watt's Mad Machine | Winson Green Outer Circle Tram Stop 52.498959°N 1.937968°W |
1998 | Tim Tolkien et al | sculpture | West Midlands Network | ||||
Icarus | Norman Street, Winson Green 52.491456°N 1.934709°W |
1990 | Juginder Lamba and Tony Phillips | Sculpture | Portland stone and wood | The Centre of the Earth | [121][122] |
Yardley Wood
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Spirit of Knowledge | Yardley Wood Library, Highfield Road, Yardley Wood 52.41856°N 1.85970°W |
1936 | William Bloye | Relief Sculpture | Stone | Birmingham City Council | [1] |
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