List of public art in the London Borough of Camden

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

Bloomsbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of George I	Atop the spire of St George's Church 51.51762°N 0.12498°W	1730		Nicholas Hawksmoor	Architectural sculpture	Grade I	[1]
More images	Statue of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Queen Square 51.52207°N 0.12274°W	c. 1775	?	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[2]
More images	Statue of Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford	Russell Square 51.52118°N 0.12543°W	1809	Richard Westmacott	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]
More images	Statue of Charles James Fox	Bloomsbury Square 51.51929°N 0.12327°W	1816	Richard Westmacott	N/A	Statue	Grade II*	[4]
More images	Statue of John Cartwright	Cartwright Gardens 51.52685°N 0.12670°W	1831	George Clarke	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]
More images	The Progress of Civilisation	Tympanum of the British Museum	1851	Richard Westmacott	Robert Smirke	Architectural sculpture	Grade I	[5]
More images	Drinking fountain with a figure of the Woman of Samaria	Guilford Place opoosite Coram's Fields 51.52348°N 0.11945°W	1870	?	Henry Darbishire	Drinking fountain with sculpture	Grade II	[6]
More images	Euterpe	St George's Gardens 51°31′34″N 0°7′14.3″W	1898	?	N/A	Statue (formerly architectural sculpture)	Grade II	Terracotta statue from the demolished Apollo Inn on Tottenham Court Road by Charles Fitzroy Doll.[7]
More images	Lions	King Edward VII Galleries, British Museum, Montague Place	1909	George Frampton	John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait		Grade I	[8]
	Statue of Joseph Priestley	30 Russell Square (formerly the Institute of Chemistry)	1914	Gilbert Bayes	John James Burnet	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[9][10]
More images	The Rangers', 12th London Regiment War Memorial	Chenies Street	1923	N/A	Leonard Culliford	Cenotaph	Grade II	Unveiled 10 November 1923.[11]
More images	Memorial to Louisa Aldrich-Blake	Tavistock Square 51°31′29″N 0°7′40.9″W	1926	Arthur George Walker	Edwin Lutyens	Memorial with bust	Grade II	[12][13]
More images	Bust of Hippocrates	University College London Building, Gower Place/Gower Street 51°31′30.41″N 0°8′8.09″W	1930			Architectural sculpture	N/A	[14]
More images	Memorial to Richard Trevithick	Gower Street	1933	Leonard Stanford Merrifield	N/A	Relief plaque	N/A	[15]
	Bust of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough	London House (Goodenough College), Mecklenburgh Square	1936	William McMillan	Herbert Baker	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[16][17]
	Bust of Thomas Coram	Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square	c. 1937	William McMillan	J. M. Shepherd	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[3]
More images	The Spirit of Brotherhood	Congress House, Great Russell Street 51.51750°N 0.12858°W	1958	Bernard Meadows	David Aberdeen	Architectural sculpture	Grade II*	[18]
More images	Statue of Thomas Coram	Outside the Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square 51.52513°N 0.12149°W	1963	William McMillan	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]
More images	Statue of Mahatma Gandhi	Tavistock Square 51.52504°N 0.12904°W	1968	Fredda Brilliant	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[13]
	Beneath the Skin	Outside Bupa House, Bloomsbury Way	1991	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A
More images	Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone	Tavistock Square	1994	Hugh Court	N/A	Commemorative stone	N/A	[13]
More images	Statue of Thiruvalluvar	Outside School of Oriental and African Studies	1996		N/A	Statue	N/A
More images	The Green Man	Woburn Square 51°31′23.1″N 0°7′45.5″W	1999	Lydia Kapinska	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves (1931).[19]
	Peter Pan	Great Ormond Street Hospital	2000	Diarmuid Byron O'Connor	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[20]
More images	Memorial to Andrew Meller	Queen Square 51°31′18.2″N 0°7′20.7″W	2001	Patricia Finch	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[21]
More images	Bust of Virginia Woolf	Tavistock Square 51°31′27.9″N 0°7′44″W	2004 (cast of an original of 1931)	Stephen Tomlin	N/A	Bust	N/A	[13][22]
	Tinker Bell	Great Ormond Street Hospital	2005	Diarmuid Byron O'Connor	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[20]
	Lions and unicorns fighting for the crown	On the spire of St George's Church 51.51762°N 0.12498°W	2006	Tim Crawley	Nicholas Hawksmoor	Architectural sculpture	Grade I	[23]
	Sundial	Torrington Square 51°31′18.8″N 0°7′46.5″W	2008		N/A	Armillary sphere	N/A
	Sam Patricia Penn	Queen Square 51°31′16″N 0°7′19.4″W	2009 (after an original of 1997)	?	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Patricia Penn (1914–1992) was a nurse who campaigned against the demolition of historic buildings in the 1970s. The original sculpture donated to the square in her memory was stolen in 2007.[24]
More images	Bust of Rabindranath Tagore	Gordon Square	2011	Shenda Amery	N/A	Bust	N/A	[9]
More images	Bust of Noor Inayat Khan	Gordon Square	2012	Karen Newman	N/A	Bust	N/A	[25]
	Bust of Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson	Queen Square 51.522121°N 0.122524°W	2017	Nick Roberson	N/A	Bust	N/A	[26]

Camden Town

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Richard Cobden	Camden High Street 51.53474°N 0.13891°W	1868	Wills Brothers	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]
More images	Matilda Fountain Matilda Kent	Gloucester Gate 51.53552°N 0.14741°W	1878	Joseph Durham	N/A	Fountain with sculpture	Grade II	[27]
	Memorial to Charles Dibdin	St Martin's Gardens	1889	?	N/A	Celtic cross	Grade II	[28]
	Generations	Maitland Park Villas 51°32′51.5″N 0°9′22″W	1971	Geoffrey Harris	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[29]
	Seated figure	Westminster Kingsway College on Longford Street 51.526041°N 0.141376°W	1976	Jean Bullock	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[30]
More images	Cat statues	Entrance to former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road 51.5334°N 0.1395°W	1996				N/A
	Black cat motifs	Façade of former Carreras Cigarette Factory, Hampstead Road 51.5335°N 0.1398°W	1996				N/A
More images	Burma Railway Memorial Far East Prisoners of War	Junction of Crowndale Road, Eversholt Street and Mornington Street	2012		Chris Roche (1104 Architects)	War memorial	N/A	Unveiled 21 September 2012[31] by the Viscount Slim, whose father Field Marshal Slim was a commander of the Burma Corps. A granite plaque with an illustration by Ronald Searle, who had been an FEPOW, mounted on a cruciform base of railway sleepers and sections of rail track, alluding to the Burma Railway.[32]
More images	Statue of Amy Winehouse	Camden Stables Market	2014	Scott Eaton	N/A	Statue	N/A	[33]
	Horses	Camden Stables Market 51.54196°N 0.14729°W				Sculpture	N/A

Covent Garden

Euston Road

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Caryatids	St Pancras New Church 51.52742°N 0.12990°W		John Charles Felix Rossi	William Inwood and Henry William Inwood	Architectural sculpture	Grade I
	Britannia	St Pancras railway station, Pancras Road side 51.53025°N 0.12455°W			George Gilbert Scott	Architectural sculpture	Grade I
More images	Statue of Robert Stephenson	Euston railway station 51.52786°N 0.13257°W	1871	Carlo Marochetti	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[34]
More images	London and North Western Railway War Memorial	Outside Euston railway station 51.5272°N 0.13258°W	1921	Ambrose Neale	Reginald Wynn Owen	War memorial	Grade II*	[35]
	Euston Arch tile motif	Euston tube station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Tom Eckersley		Ceramic mural	N/A	[36]
	Five crowns on a cross tile motif	King's Cross St Pancras tube station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Tom Eckersley		Ceramic mural	N/A	[36]
More images	Piscator Erwin Piscator	Forecourt of Euston railway station	1980	Eduardo Paolozzi		Sculpture	N/A	[37]
More images	Newton Isaac Newton	Forecourt of the British Library 51.52904°N 0.12762°W	1995	Eduardo Paolozzi		Sculpture	Grade I	[37]
More images	Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw	Shaw Theatre (entrance on Ossulston Street) 51°31′43.9″N 0°7′40.8″W	2002 (after an original of 1971)	Keith Grant		Sculpture	N/A	[38]
	Archangel Michael Victims of the 7 July 2005 bombings	St Pancras New Church 51°31′36.9″N 0°7′48.4″W	2004	Emily Young	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[39]
	Monolith and Shadow	University College Hospital	2005	John Aiken		Sculpture	N/A	[40]
More images	The Meeting Place	St Pancras railway station	2007	Paul Day	N/A		N/A	[41]
More images	Statue of John Betjeman	St Pancras railway station	2007	Martin Jennings	N/A	Statue	N/A	[42]
	Unity	Unison headquarters	2011	Wendy Taylor		Sculpture	N/A	[43]
	Statue of Matthew Flinders	Euston railway station	2014	Mark Richards	N/A	Statue	N/A	[44]
More images	Statue of Nigel Gresley	King's Cross railway station	2016	Hazel Reeves	N/A	Statue	N/A	[45]

Fitzrovia

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	"Warren" tile motif	Warren Street tube station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Alan Fletcher		Ceramic mural	N/A	[36]
More images	View	Fitzroy Square 51°31′22.6″N 0°8′22.7″W	1977	Naomi Blake	N/A	Sculpture	N/A
	Fitzrovia Mural	Whitfield Gardens 51.520765°N 0.135089°W	1980	Simon Barber and Mick Jones	N/A	Mural	N/A	The mural depicts "various unnamed characters of Fitzrovia and greedy speculators". Barber painted the bottom half and Jones (son of the trade unionist Jack Jones) the top half. As of 2013 the work was in poor condition.[46]
More images	Statue of Francisco de Miranda	Corner of Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street	1990 (after an original of 1895)	After Rafael de la Cova	N/A	Statue	N/A	Stands close to 58 Grafton Way ("Casa Miranda"), where the Venezuelan revolutionary lived with his English wife from 1802 to 1810.[47]
	The One and The Many	Fitzroy Place	2015	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[48]

Hampstead

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Virgin and Child	St Mary's Church, on façade of tower 51.556967°N 0.18045°W	c. 1850		William Wardell	Statue in niche	Grade II*
	Roebuck	Tympanum of the Roebuck pub, Pond Street 51.5538°N 0.1674°W	Late 1860s	?	?	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[49]
	Drinking fountain	Rosslyn Hill 51.554977°N 0.17362°W	c. 1875	?	?	Drinking fountain	Grade II	[50]
	Drinking fountain William Warburton Pearce	South End Green 51.5542°N 0.1654°W	1880	J. H. Evins (designer)	J. Holland (builder)	Drinking fountain	Grade II	[51]
More images	Chalybeate well Susanna Noel	Well Walk 51.559177°N 0.17345°W	1882	H. S. Legg			Grade II
	Woman	Outside 28A High Street 51.55591°N 0.17672°W				Architectural sculpture	N/A	[52]

Hampstead Heath

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Hampstead War Memorial	Junction of Spaniards Road and North End Way 51.562792°N 0.179597°W	1922	N/A	Reginald Blomfield	Obelisk	Grade II	[53][54]
	Mural	Platforms of Hampstead Heath railway station	2011	Johnson Tiles and Clare Woods	N/A	Ceramic mural	N/A	[55]

Highgate

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet	Waterlow Park 51.56919°N 0.14503°W	1900	Frank Taubman	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[56]
More images	Tomb of Karl Marx	Highgate Cemetery 51.56623°N 0.14379°W	1956	Laurence Bradshaw	N/A	Bust	Grade I	[57]

Holborn

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of Thomas More	Thomas More Chambers, 51 and 52 Carey Street	1886	Robert Smith	George Sherrin	Statue in niche	Grade II	[58][59]
More images	Statue of John Bunyan	Baptist Church House, Southampton Row	1903	Richard Garbe	Arthur Keen	Statue in niche	Grade II*	[60]
	Statue of Edward I	114 and 115 High Holborn	c. 1903–1904	Richard Garbe	Arthur Keen	Architectural sculpture	Grade II
	Statue of Edward VII	114 and 115 High Holborn	c. 1903–1904	Richard Garbe	Arthur Keen	Architectural sculpture	Grade II
	Bust of Charles Dickens	Holborn Bars, High Holborn	1907	Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald	Alfred Waterhouse	Bust		[61]
More images	Statue of Francis Bacon	South Square, Gray's Inn	1912	F. W. Pomeroy	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[62]
More images	Memorial to Margaret Ethel MacDonald	Lincoln's Inn Fields	1914	Richard Reginald Goulden		Memorial seat with sculpture	Grade II	[63]
More images	Lincoln's Inn War Memorial	New Square, Lincoln's Inn	1921			War memorial	Grade II	Unveiled 16 March 1921.[64]
	Memorial to Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden	Lincoln's Inn Fields	1929	Arthur George Walker (lost bust)	Edwin Lutyens	Pedestal in the form of a seat	Grade II	[65][66]
	Bust of John Hunter	Lincoln's Inn Fields	1979	Nigel Boonham	N/A	Bust	N/A	[67]
More images	Bust of Bertrand Russell	Red Lion Square	1980	Marcelle Quinton	N/A	Bust	N/A	[68]
More images	Camdonian	Lincoln's Inn Fields	1980	Barry Flanagan	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[69]
More images	Statue of Fenner Brockway	Red Lion Square	1985	Ian Walters	N/A	Statue	N/A	[3]
	Dolphin	Between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields	1989	Anna Richtner Pentney		Architectural sculpture	N/A
More images	Square the Block	London School of Economics New Academic Building, corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street 51°30′54″N 0°7′6.8″W	2009	Richard Wilson		Architectural sculpture	N/A	[70]
	Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial	Lincoln's Inn Fields				War memorial	N/A	[71]

Regent's Park

Part of Regent's Park lies outside the borough of Camden; for works not listed here see see the list of public art in St Marylebone.

Regent's Park is one of London's Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Readymoney Drinking Fountain	Broad Walk 51.5328°N 0.1507°W	1869	Henry Ross	Robert Keirle	Drinking fountain	Grade II	A gift from the Indian industrialist Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck.[72] The fountain straddles the boundary line between Camden and Westminster.

Swiss Cottage

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Sigmund Freud	Belsize Lane/Fitzjohns Avenue 51.54620°N 0.17560°W	1970 (current location since 1998)	Oscar Nemon	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[3]

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External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Camden at Wikimedia Commons