List of public art in Greenwich
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This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Contents
Deptford
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to Margaret McMillan | Rachel McMillan Nursery School, McMillan Street Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1932 | Sir Herbert Baker (architect) | Grade II | [1] | ||||
120x120px | Peter the Great | Glaisher Street | 2001 | Mihail Chemiakin | Statue |
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Greenwich
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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George II | Old Royal Naval College Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1735 | John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | Grade II | [2] | ||
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The Immortality of Nelson | Nelson Pediment, Old Royal Naval College | 1809–12 | Benjamin West and Joseph Panzetta | Architectural relief sculpture | Coade stone | Grade I | [3][4] | |
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William IV | King William Walk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1845 | Samuel Nixon | Statue | Foggin Tor Devon granite | Grade II | Erected 18–19 December 1844 on King William Street in the City of London; taken down in 1935 and re-erected here, on a smaller pedestal, the following year. The principal work of this sculptor, who received insufficient recompense from the work's commissioners and came close to financial ruin.[5] | |
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Memorial to Joseph René Bellot | Cutty Sark Gardens Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1855 | Philip Hardwick | Obelisk | Grade II | [2] | ||
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Memorial to the New Zealand Campaign (1863–4) | King William Walk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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Obelisk | Grade II | [6] | ||
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General James Wolfe | Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1927 | Robert Tait McKenzie | Statue | Grade II | |||
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Sir Walter Raleigh | Old Royal Naval College Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1959 | William McMillan | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 28 October 1959 in Whitehall by the US Ambassador John Hay Whitney.[7] Moved to this site in 2001[8] as it was out of scale with other statues which had since been erected nearby.[9] The statue is close to the Discover Greenwich entrance within the grounds of the ORNC. | ||
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Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge | Greenwich Park | 1961–76 | Henry Moore | Sculpture | N/A | [10] | ||
120x120px | Dolphin Sundial | Titanic Memorial Garden, Royal Observatory | 1977–8 | Christopher Daniel and Edwin Russell | Sundial with sculpture | N/A | |||
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Captain James Cook | National Maritime Museum Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1994 | Arthur Weller | Statue | N/A | [11] | ||
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Prime Meridian marker | Royal Observatory | 1999 | Christina Garzia | Sculpture | N/A | |||
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The Throne of Earthly Kings | Devonport House | 2004 | François Hameury | Sculpture | N/A | [12] | ||
120x120px | Statue of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Trafalgar Tavern | 2009 | Lesley Povey | Statue | Bronze | N/A | [13] | |
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Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle | National Maritime Museum | 2010 | Yinka Shonibare | Sculpture | N/A | |||
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Yuri Gagarin | Royal Observatory | 2011 | Anatoly Novikov | Statue | Zinc alloy | N/A | [14] |
North Greenwich
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Quantum Cloud | Greenwich Peninsula Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Antony Gormley | Sculpture |
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120x120px | Slice of Reality | Greenwich Peninsula Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Richard Wilson | Sculpture |
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Woolwich
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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120x120px | Statue of a Barbarian or Deus Lunus | Royal Arsenal Brass Foundry, No 1 Street Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
late-Roman period (1st–3rd century AD) | ? | Roman statue | Turkish marble | ? | Dug up by British troops in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1801 and shipped to Woolwich | |
120x120px | Crucifix | St Mary's Gardens, Greenlaw Street Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
18th–19th century? | ? | crucifix | wood | ? | Originally part of the church interior; moved here in 1966 | |
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Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Royal Arsenal, Wellington Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1848 | Thomas Milnes | statue on pedestal | marble, Portland stone (plinth) | Grade II | Originally at the Tower of London, moved to the Arsenal in 1863 | |
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Lioness resting paw on urn | St Mary's Gardens, Woolwich Church Street Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1851 | ? | statue | stone | ? | Tom Cribb's tomb | |
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Crimean War Memorial | Royal Artillery Barracks, south end of parade ground Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1861 | John Bell | statue with pedestal surrounded by 12 cannon-bollards | bronze and stone | 3 m (without pediment) | ? | The figure of a woman distributing laurel wreaths, Honour, was cast from a Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol |
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Major Little Memorial | Woolwich Common, Academy Rd / Ha-ha Rd Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1861? | ? | obelisk | stone | ? | ||
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Second Boer War Memorial | Grand Depot Road, opposite Royal Artillery Barracks Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1902? | ? | obelisk | granite | ? | Memorial to the men of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the
Second Boer War (1899–1902) |
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120x120px | Statue of Alexander McLeod | Former Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society building, 125–161 Powis Street | 1903 | Alfred Drury | Statue in niche | Coade stone or terracotta? | Grade II | [16] | |
120x120px | World War I memorial | Royal Arsenal, Grand Store, Cadogan Road Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1919? | ? | relief | stone | ? | ||
120x120px | Maritime history of Woolwich | Woolwich Dockyard, Thames Path at Mast Pond Wharf Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1984–86 | Community project | mosaic floor piece | ceramic |
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The mosaics are the result of a community project led by the National Elfrida Rathbone Society through an arts workshop based at the Clock House Community Centre | |
120x120px | Workers of Woolwich | Woolwich Arsenal station, platform 1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1993 | Martin Williams | relief | terracotta |
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The work was commissioned by the British Rail’s Community Unit with the University of Greenwich and Greenwich Council, and is a tribute to the tens of thousands of workers at the Royal Arsenal | |
120x120px | The Woolwich Ship | Plumstead Road, opposite the Royal Arsenal Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1999 | Tom Grimsey | sculpture | steel | N/A | The sculpture celebrates the naval history of Woolwich; commissioned by Woolwich Development Agency & Greenwich Council | |
120x120px | History of Woolwich Dockyard | Woolwich Church Street, Kingsman Parade pedestrian tunnel Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Stephen Lobb, Greenwich Mural Workshop & pupils of Cardwell Primary School | mosaic mural | ceramic | N/A | The mosaics are the result of a project by the Greenwich Mural Workshop, with Stephen Lobb as the senior artist, working with Cardwell Primary School | |
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Assembly | Royal Arsenal, James Clavell Square Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2001 | Peter Burke | group of 16 statues | cast iron | 188cm | N/A | |
120x120px | Memorial to Dial Square, Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Arsenal Football Clubs | Royal Arsenal, outside the Dial Arch pub Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
c. 2005 | ? | sculpture | bronze, stone | N/A | ||
120x120px | Street Life | Woolwich Arsenal station, Green's End / Beresford Square Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2008 | Michael Craig-Martin | ceramic art, mural | ceramic | extends over two storeys | N/A | More than 2500 individually screen-printed tiles by Manor Architectural Ceramics in Warwick |
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Statue of Nike, goddess of victory | Royal Arsenal, No 1 Street, Main Guardhouse Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
9 Sept 2012 | Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis | statue | bronze | N/A | A gift of the people of Olympia to commemorate the 30th Olympiad in London in 2012 |
References
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- ↑ Blackwood 1989, p. 306
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- ↑ http://www.jimbatty.com/IMG/london/greenwich/5A122923.html
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- ↑ Matthews 2012, p. 199
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- ↑ http://www.richardwilsonsculptor.com/projects/slice%20of%20reality.html
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Bibliography
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