List of public art in the London Borough of Islington

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

Clerkenwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs	Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green	1779–1782 (building)	Joseph Nollekens	Relief sculptures	Grade II*	[1]

Finsbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Science and Agriculture	City, University of London, College Building	c. 1894–1896	Paul Raphael Montford	Frieze	Grade II	[2]
More images	Finsbury War Memorial	Rosebery Avenue	15 August 1921	Thomas Rudge	War memorial with statue	Grade II	[3]
More images	Faceted Column	Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51.5204°N 0.0875°W	1999	Stephen Cox	Sculpture	N/A	[4]
	Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash	Finsbury Square	2013	?	Memorial	N/A	Unveiled 28 July 2013.[5]
	Mercury the God	Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square					[6]
	2 figures of Triton the God	Triton Court, Finsbury Square
	4 females	Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square

Finsbury Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Crossed pistols tile motif	Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Tom Eckersley		N/A	[7]
	Balloon mosaics	Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms	1983	Annabel Grey		N/A	[8]

Highbury

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Boer War Memorial	Highbury Fields	1905	Bertram Mackennal	War memorial with statue	Grade II	[9]
	Statue of Francis Bacon	Islington Central Library, Holloway Road	1906	Frederick Schenck	Statue in niche	Grade II	[9]
	Statue of Edmund Spenser	Islington Central Library, Holloway Road	1906	Frederick Schenck	Statue in niche	Grade II	[9]
	The Neighbours	Highbury Quadrant Estate 51.5585°N 0.0936°W	1957	Siegfried Charoux	Sculptural group	Grade II	[10]
	Highbury Manor tile motif	Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms	1968	Edward Bawden		N/A	[11]

Highgate

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Dick Whittington's cat	Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51.5665°N 0.1369°W	1964	Jonathan Kenworthy	Sculpture	Grade II	[12]

Holloway

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Tony Adams	Emirates Stadium	2011	MDM	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 9 December 2011.[13]
More images	Statue of Herbert Chapman	Emirates Stadium	2011	MDM	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 9 December 2011.[14]
More images	Statue of Thierry Henry	Emirates Stadium	2011	Margot Roulleau-Gallais	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 9 December 2011.[15]
More images	Statue of Dennis Bergkamp	Emirates Stadium	2014	MDM	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 22 February 2014.[16]
More images	Statue of Ken Friar	Emirates Stadium	2014	MDM	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 28 February 2014.[17]

Islington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Commerce Welcoming All Nations	Battishill Street Gardens	1842 (carved) 1975 (unveiled on present site)	Musgrave Watson			[18]
More images	Statue of Hugh Myddelton	Islington Green 51.5357°N 0.1036°W	1862	John Thomas	Statue	Grade II	[19]
	Memorial to Thomas Paine	Angel Court, Owen Street	1991	Kevin Jordan	Obelisk	N/A	[20]
More images	Angel Wings	N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington	2003	Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron	Sculpture	N/A	[21]
	Halo	N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington	2003	Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron	Sculpture	N/A	[21]
	Islington Green War Memorial	Islington Green	2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial)	John Maine	War memorial	N/A	[22]
	Angel	Angel tube station		Kevin Boys	Statue	N/A
	Hare and Hounds architectural sculpture	Upper Street, on No. 181 (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub)					[23]

Newington Green

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft	Newington Green 51.5515°N 0.0851°W	2020	Maggi Hambling	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 10 November 2020.[24]

St Luke's

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Christ Healing the Blind Man	Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension	1933–1935 (building)	Eric Gill	Relief sculpture		[25]
	Opening the Lockgate	Outside 250 City Road, opposite City Road Basin	2020	Ian Rank-Broadley	Sculptural group	N/A	Commemorates the bicentenary of the Regent's Canal. The first of three works by the sculptor commissioned for the development; the others will be installed in 2021 and 2023.[26]

Shoreditch

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of John Wesley	Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51.5237°N 0.0872°W	1891	John Adams-Acton	Statue	Grade II	[19]

References

1. Historic England. "Clerkenwell Conference Centre (1298072)". National Heritage List for England.
2. Temple, Philip, ed. (2008), "Northampton Square area: Northampton Square and adjacent streets", South and East Clerkenwell, Survey of London, London: London County Council, 46, pp. 304–321, retrieved 18 August 2015
3. Finsbury War Monument London Remembers. Accessed 4 August 2014
4. Planning approval
5. "Moorgate tube disaster – Finsbury Square", London Remembers, retrieved 27 December 2019
6. http://knowledgeoflondon.com/rooftops.html
7. Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Finsbury Park Accessed 3 August 2014.
8. The Mosaics at Finsbury Park Accessed 20 August 2014.
9. Statues in Islington Accessed 18 July 2011
10. Historic England. "'The Neighbours' sculpture at Highbury Quadrant Estate (1031596)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
11. Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Highbury and Islington Accessed 3 August 2014
12. Historic England. "Whittington Stone, circa 15 metres south of the junction with Mandala Avenue (1298038)". National Heritage List for England.
13. Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Tony Adams", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
14. Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Herbert Chapman", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
15. Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Thierry Henry", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
16. Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Dennis Bergkamp", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
17. Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012), "Ken Friar", From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 13 December 2015
18. Musgrave Watson frieze in Battishill Gardens Accessed 20 December 2010
19. Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
20. Rights of Man in Islington – UK Attraction Accessed 18 July 2011
21. CV: Wolfgang and Heron CV, Public Art Online, archived from the original on 24 September 2015, retrieved 28 August 2015
22. Art in the Open Resource – Islington Green Accessed 4 August 2014
23. "Hare and Hounds, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
24. Topping, Alexandra (10 November 2020), "'Insulting to her': Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture sparks backlash", The Guardian, retrieved 12 November 2020
25. Cherry & Pevsner 2002, p. 611.
26. "New Sculpture Celebrates Heritage Of The Regent's Canal", Londonist, 27 March 2020, retrieved 28 June 2020

Bibliography

• Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002), London: North, The Buildings of England, 4, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

External links

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