List of public art in the London Borough of Lambeth

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

South Bank Lion

Brixton

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Four allegorical figures	Lambeth Town Hall clock tower				Portland Stone	Grade II	The figures represent Justice, Science, Art and Literature
	Bust of Henry Tate	Brixton Library	1905	Thomas Brock	Bust	Bronze	Grade II	[1]
	Pile of bricks tile motif	Brixton tube station, Victoria line platforms	c. 1971	Hans Unger			N/A	[2]
	Foxes and Cherries	Electric Avenue	2010	Lucy Casson	fibreglass		N/A
	Brixton Speaks	Electric Avenue		Will Self, Jack Self			N/A
	Twins	Somerleyton Road, Coldharbour Lane	2016	Taslim Martin		cast iron and stainless steel	N/A	[3]
	Platforms Piece Peter Lloyd	Brixton railway station	1986	Kevin Atherton	Statue		N/A
	Brixton murals	Various locations in and around Brixton town centre					N/A
	David Bowie mural	Morley's department store, Tunstall Road	2013	James Cochran	Mural		N/A	[4]
	African and Caribbean War Memorial	Windrush Square	2017		Obelisk		N/A	Unveiled 22 June 2017. The design was announced to the public in 2014[5]
	The Brixton Heron	Roof of the Prince of Wales pub, corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane 51.4615593°N 0.1152009°W	2010	Maggi Hambling	Sculptural weather vane			Depicts a grey heron with a fish in its bill

Clapham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Drinking fountain	Clapham Common, between Long Road and The Pavement 51.4618°N 0.1406°W	1884	August von Kreling	Fountain with sculptural group	Bronze with granite plinth	Grade II	[6]

Kennington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Decorative column	Kennington Park 51.4835°N 0.1101°W	c. 1869	George Tinworth	Column	Terracotta	Grade II	[7]
	War memorial	St Mark's Church 51.4816°N 0.1124°W	1921	?	Memorial cross	Granite	Grade II	Unveiled 29 October 1921.[8]
More images	Kennington War Memorial	Kennington Park 51.4854°N 0.1083°W	1924	Thomas Arthur Lodge	Cenotaph	Stone	Grade II	Unveiled 19 July 1924.[9]
	Memorial to Len Hutton	Hobbs Gate, The Oval	1989–1993	Walter Ritchie	Relief sculpture	Brick	N/A	The cricketer is portrayed scoring his record-breaking innings of 364 runs against Australia in 1938.[10] This work is said to be Ritchie's masterpiece.[11]
	Memorial to Victims of the Kennington Park Air Raid Shelter Tragedy	Kennington Park 51.4837°N 0.1103°W	2006	Richard Kindersley	Memorial	Caithness stone	N/A	Unveiled 14 October 2006. Inscribed with a quotation from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993): history/ despite its/ wrenching/ pain/ cannot/ be unlived/ but/ if faced/ with/ courage/ need not/ be lived/ again.[12]
	Touchstone	Oval Triangle	2018	Peter Randall-Page	Sculpture	Granite	N/A	[13]

Lambeth

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Edward VI	Outside main entrance, St Thomas' Hospital 51.4998°N 0.1188°W	1682	Thomas Cartwright	Statue	Stone	Grade II*	[14]
More images	Statue of Robert Clayton	A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital 51.5004°N 0.1195°W	1702	Grinling Gibbons	Statue	Marble	Grade I	[15]
More images	Statue of Edward VI	St Thomas' Hospital 51.4992°N 0.1195°W	1736	Peter Scheemakers	Statue	Bronze	Grade II*	[16]
	Mr Doulton in His Studio Henry Doulton	Southbank House, 81 Black Prince Road	c. 1878	George Tinworth	Tympanum relief	Terracotta	Grade II	[17]
More images	Revolving Torsion	A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital	1972–1973	Naum Gabo	Sculpture with fountain	Stainless steel	Grade II*	[18]
More images	South of the River	Outside Becket House, Lambeth Palace Road	1975–1976	Bernard Schottlander	Sculpture	Stainless steel	Grade II	[19]
More images	Cross the Divide	Outside St Thomas' Hospital	2000	Rick Kirby	Sculptural group	Stainless steel	N/A	[20]
More images	International Memorial to Seafarers	International Maritime Organization, Albert Embankment	2001	Michael Sandle	Sculpture		N/A	Unveiled 27 September (World Maritime Day) 2001.[21]
More images	Special Operations Executive Memorial Violette Szabo	Lambeth Palace Road, opposite entrance to Lambeth Palace	2009	Karen Newman	Bust		N/A	Unveiled 4 October 2009 by the Duke of Wellington.[22]
More images	Statue of Mary Seacole	Outside St Thomas' Hospital	2009	Martin Jennings	Statue	Bronze	N/A	Unveiled 30 June 2016 by Floella Benjamin.[23][24]

South Bank

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	South Bank Lion	Outside County Hall 51.5009°N 0.1198°W	1837 (restored 1951)	William F. Woodington	Statue	Coade stone	Grade II*	[25]
	The Motorcyclist	Shell Centre	1957	Siegfried Charoux	Statue	Cemented iron	N/A	[26]
	The Shell Fountain	Courtyard of the Shell Centre 51.5041°N 0.1163°W	1959–1963	Franta Belsky	Fountain with sculpture	Bronze	Grade II	[27]
More images	Zemran	First floor terrace, Royal Festival Hall	1971	William Pye	Sculpture	Stainless steel	Grade II	[28]
More images	Statue of Fryderyk Chopin	Royal Festival Hall	1975	Bronisław Kubica	Statue	Bronze	N/A	[29]
	Jubilee Oracle	Next to Jubilee Gardens	1980	"Alexander"	Sculpture	Bronze	N/A	[30]
	Passage Paving	Outside Royal Festival Hall	1983	Richard Harris	Sculpture	Concrete	N/A	[31]
	Pend	Outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall	1983–84	Anne Nicholson	Sculpture	Portland stone	N/A	[32]
	Arena	Walkway near the Royal National Theatre	1983–1988	John Maine	Sculpture	Stone	N/A	[33]
More images	International Brigades Memorial	Outside County Hall	1985	Ian Walters	Sculptural group	Bronze	N/A	[34]
More images	London Pride	Outside the National Theatre 51.507617°N 0.114764°W	1987 cast of a work of 1951	Frank Dobson	Sculptural group	Bronze	Grade II	[35]
More images	Bust of Nelson Mandela	Outside the Royal Festival Hall	1988 replica of an original of 1982	Ian Walters	Bust	Bronze	N/A	[36]
More images	Statue of Laurence Olivier	Outside the National Theatre	2007	Angela Conner	Statue	Bronze	N/A	Unveiled 22 May 2007, the centenary of Olivier's birth.[37]

Stockwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Stockwell War Memorial	Stockwell Road 51.4730°N 0.1220°W	1920	Frank T. Dear	War memorial	Portland stone	Grade II	[38]
	Swan tile motif	Stockwell tube station, Victoria line platforms	c. 1971	Abram Games	Tile motif		N/A	[39]
	Tradescant Family Memorial John Tradescant the Elder John Tradescant the Younger	St Stephen's Terrace	1988	Hilary Cartmel	Sculpture		N/A	[40]
	Stockwell Memorial Mural	Stockwell Memorial Gardens	2001	Brian Barnes and Myra Harris	Mural	Household paint	N/A	[41]
More images	Bronze Woman	Stockwell Memorial Gardens	2008	Aleix Barbat, after Ian Walters	Statue	Bronze	N/A	[42]
	Memorial to Jean Charles de Menezes	Outside Stockwell tube station	7 January 2010	Mary Edwards	Mosaic		N/A	[43]

Streatham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Dyce Drinking Fountain	Streatham Green 51.4283°N 0.1315°W	1862	William Dyce	Drinking fountain	Portland stone, red sandstone and marble	Grade II	[44]
More images	Streatham War Memorial	Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51.4233°N 0.1294°W	1921	Albert Toft	Statue	Bronze	Grade II	Unveiled 14 October 1922.[45]
	Streatham Civilians War Memorial	Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North 51.4231°N 0.1316°W	2006	Ekkehard Altenburger	War memorial pillar	Kilkenny limestone	N/A	Unveiled 21 October 2006. Inscribed GRIEF HAS NO BOUNDARIES, a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra.[46][47][48]
	Charioteer with 4 horses	Caesar's Night Club, Streatham Hill					N/A

Vauxhall

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
	Agriculture, Engineering, Pottery	Vauxhall Bridge	1907	F. W. Pomeroy	Statues
	Following the Leader Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz	Darley House, Vauxhall Gardens Estate, Laud Street 51.488036°N 0.120039°W	1949	Peter Laszlo Peri	Relief sculpture	Coloured concrete	Grade II	[49]
	Boys Playing Football	Wareham House, South Lambeth Estate, Fentiman Road 51.480521°N 0.118925°W	1951–1952	Peter Laszlo Peri	Relief sculpture	Coloured concrete	Grade II	[50]
	Mother and Children Playing	Horton House, South Lambeth Estate 51.480854°N 0.119853°W	1951–1952	Peter Laszlo Peri	Relief sculpture	Coloured concrete	Grade II	[51]
	Vauxhall Gardens tile motif	Vauxhall tube station, Victoria line platforms	c. 1971	George Smith	Murals	Tiles	N/A	[52]
	Underline	Vauxhall tube station		Giles Round, Design Work Leisure	Murals	Tiles	N/A	[53]

Waterloo

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Designation	Notes
More images	Victory Arch London and South Western Railway War Memorial	Entrance arch of Waterloo station 51.503752°N 0.113879°W	1919–1922	Charles Whiffen	War memorial	Portland stone	Grade II	Opened 21 March 1922.[54][55]
	Battle of Waterloo Memorial	Waterloo station	2015	Jason Brooks	War memorial		N/A	Unveiled 10 June 2015 by the Duke of Wellington. The bronze plaque is based on the reverse of the Waterloo Medal.[56]

References

1. Historic England. "Bust of Sir Henry Tate, outside Tate Library, Brixton Oval (1434203)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
2. Porter, Laura, "Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Brixton", Go London, archived from the original on 12 August 2014, retrieved 11 August 2014
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4. Dickens, Tim (24 June 2013), "David Bowie Brixton mural officially unveiled", Brixton Blog, retrieved 11 January 2016
5. Blake, Shez Chung (12 November 2014), "African and Caribbean War Memorial unveiled at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton – photos", Brixton Buzz, retrieved 2 July 2016
6. Historic England. "Drinking Fountain Approximately 500 Metres to South East of Church of Holy Trinity (1122676)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
7. Historic England. "Decorative column on west side of Kennington Park (1080382)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
8. Historic England. "First World War Memorial at the Church of St Mark, Kennington (1449576)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
9. Historic England. "Kennington War Memorial (1441730)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
10. "Sir Leonard Hutton Memorial, Oval Cricket Ground, Kennington Oval", National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 1 September 2012, retrieved 6 July 2017
11. Rogers, Byron (19 February 1997), "Obituary: Walter Ritchie", The Independent, retrieved 6 July 2017
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13. "Touchstone", Peter Randall-Page, retrieved 13 April 2019
14. Historic England. "Stone Statue of Edward VI at North Entrance to Ward Block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth (1319933)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
15. Historic England. "Statue of Robert Clayton at North Entrance to Ward Block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth (1319925)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
16. Historic England. "Bronze Statue of Edward VI at North Entrance to Ward Block of North Wing at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth (1080372)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
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18. Historic England. "Revolving Torsion (1430741)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
19. Historic England. "South of the River (1430830)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
20. "Portfolio", Rick Kirby Sculpture, retrieved 9 February 2016
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25. Historic England. "The South Bank Lion at East End of Westminster Bridge, Lambeth (1068742)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
26. "The Motorcyclist, Sculpture, Belvedere Rd., The Shell Centre, Lambeth", National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 10 May 2017, retrieved 31 January 2016
27. Historic England. "Fountain in Courtyard of Shell Centre (1379937)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
28. Historic England. "Zemran sculptures (1431364)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
29. Restoration of Chopin Statue at Royal Festival Hall, The Polish Heritage Society, May 2011, retrieved 1 February 2016
30. "Jubilee Oracle, Sculpture, The Queen's Walk", National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 10 May 2017, retrieved 31 January 2016
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37. Matthews 2012, pp. 189–190.
38. Historic England. "Stockwell War Memorial (1263507)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
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48. "Artist's CV and list of commissions", Ekkehard Altenburger, retrieved 21 September 2019
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Bibliography

• Matthews, Peter (2012), London's Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications

External links

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