List of public art in Covent Garden

This is a list of public art in Covent Garden, a district in the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden.

City of Westminster

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Augustus Harris Memorial Drinking Fountain	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Catherine Street)	1897	Thomas Brock	Sidney R. J. Smith	Wall monument with drinking fountain and sculpture	Grade I	Unveiled 1 November 1897. The bust of Harris is in a niche flanked by brackets adorned with a Masonic motif. Below is a relief of infants personifying Comedy and Tragedy, reclining over a rusticated basement, within which are a lion's head water spout and basins. A lyre crowns the pediment and other musical instruments are represented in bronze reliefs on the columns.[1]
	Memorial to David Garrick	27 Southampton Street	1901	Henry Charles Fehr	Charles Fitzroy Doll	Plaque with relief sculpture	N/A	A profile portrait of the actor is flanked by figures of the Tragic and Comic Muses. Inscribed DAVID GARRICK/ LIVED HERE/ 1750–1772/ ΜΕΛΠΟΜΕΝΗ/ ΘΑΛΕΙΑ[2]
More images	Young Dancer	Broad Court, off Bow Street 51.5136°N 0.1225°W	1988	Enzo Plazzotta	N/A	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 16 May 1988. A gift to Westminster City Council by the sculptor's estate.[3]
	Neptune Fountain	Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden 51.5114°N 0.1235°W	1995	Philip Thomason	Donald Insall	Fountain with sculpture	N/A	Part of the southern gate of the church, reconstructed to Inigo Jones's design after it had been removed in 1877. The material used is a very close match to Coade stone,[4] the recipe for which has been lost.
	Sculpture	Maiden Lane	1998	Eamonn Hughes	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[5]
	Market Memorial	Southampton Street	2006	Glynis Jones Owen	Covent Garden Housing Project Architects	Bronze relief panel	N/A	Commemorates the fruit traders who worked at Covent Garden Market from 1670 to 1974. The deliberately crude style is intended to be in the spirit of the chapbooks popular in the 18th century.[6][7]
More images	The Conversion of Saint Paul	Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden	2010	Bruce Denny	N/A	Equestrian sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 20 March 2015 by Judi Dench.[8] Originally commissioned for an exhibition of 2010 marking the tercentenary of the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.[9]
More images	Memorial to Agatha Christie	Corner of Great Newport Street and Cranbourn Street 51.5118°N 0.1274°W	2012	Ben Twiston-Davies	N/A	Memorial with sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 18 November 2012. Marks the 60th year of the run of Christie's play The Mousetrap, the longest in theatrical history, which is staged nearby at St Martin's Theatre. The memorial takes the form of a book as Christie is also the world's best-selling novelist.[10] Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, the Orient Express and a country house are depicted in relief on the book's cover.[11]
	Diamond Jubilee Memorial Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II	Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden	2012	?	N/A	Relief set into pavement	N/A	A small, brick labyrinth encircling a relief of an over-sized coin.[12]

London Borough of Camden

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Drinking fountain Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria	High Holborn	1897	?	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	Presented by the St Giles Board of Works through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.[13]
More images	Seven Dials Monument	Seven Dials	1988–89	N/A	Andrew ("Red") Mason after Edward Pierce	Column	N/A	Unveiled 29 June 1989 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of William III and Mary II's accession. The original Sundial Pillar was erected by Thomas Neale in the early 1690s; it was pulled down in 1773 in order to deter "undesirables" from congregating around it.[14]
More images	ob 08	Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street	2008	Steven Gontarski	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	The bright red abstract sculpture, which stands 5 metres high, is made of painted and lacquered glass-fibre-reinforced plastic. Gontarski wished to "create a heart in the midst of an urban development".[15]
	William	Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street	2010	Rebecca Warren	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Adapted from a smaller work by the sculptor also titled William. The fluid, anonymous figure is intended to "speak of the ever-shifting present" and not of the past, and thus have the opposite qualities to most public sculpture.[15][16]

References

1. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 22–23.
2. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 255–256
3. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 10
4. Ward-Jackson 2011, p. 249
5. Goodwin, Katey (15 February 2015), A sculpture right under our noses, Art UK, retrieved 13 December 2016
6. Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 256–257
7. Bradley & Pevsner 2003, p. 344
8. "Dame Judi Dench Statue Unveiling – 20th March 2015", Vimeo, 27 March 2015, retrieved 9 February 2017
9. "The Conversion of St. Paul", Bruce Denny, retrieved 21 March 2015
10. "Agatha Christie memorial", Ben Twiston-Davies Sculpture, archived from the original on 20 August 2013, retrieved 2 June 2013
11. Flood, Alison (10 August 2012), "Agatha Christie memorial to be erected", The Guardian, retrieved 2 June 2013
12. "London's Labyrinths And Mazes", Londonist, October 2014, retrieved 5 May 2015
13. Historic England. "Drinking Fountain at junction with Shaftesbury Avenue (1113173)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
14. Completing the Renaissance: The Sundial Pillar & the streets, The Seven Dials Trust, retrieved 28 August 2012
15. Central Saint Giles Art, archived from the original on 12 February 2014, retrieved 28 August 2012
16. "Top Ten Public Contemporary Art Works In London", Artlyst, 20 October 2011, retrieved 2 April 2020

Bibliography

• Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003), London 6: Westminster, The Buildings of England, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-09595-1CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, 14, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, ISBN 978-1-84631-691-3CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)