List of public art in the London Borough of Islington
This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Islington.
Map of public art in the London Borough of Islington
Barnsbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial | Thornhill Road Gardens, junction of Thornhill Road and Richmond Avenue 51°32′20″N 0°06′37″W / 51.5389°N 0.1102°W |
1920 | ? | War memorial with Celtic cross | Grade II | [1] | |
Huntingdon Arms sculpture | 115 Hemingford Road (former Huntingdon Arms pub) 51°32′27″N 0°06′49″W / 51.5409°N 0.1136°W |
? | Relief sculpture | — | [2] | ||
Animal Park | Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens 51°32′07″N 0°07′02″W / 51.5353°N 0.1171°W |
2006 | Monica Shanta Brown | Mosaics | — |
Canonbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Horizon | Canonbury Square, eastern section 51°32′37″N 0°06′00″W / 51.5437°N 0.0999°W |
2019 | David Harber | Armillary sphere | — |
Clerkenwell
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs
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Clerkenwell Green
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1779–1782 (building) | Joseph Nollekens | Relief sculptures | Grade II* | [3] | |
Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District |
Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road 51°31′29″N 0°06′40″W / 51.5246°N 0.1111°W |
1920 | ? | Aedicule
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Grade II | Unveiled 1 January 1920 at Wimpole Street Post Office, Marylebone. After that post office's closure in 1981 the memorial moved to the delivery offices in Rathbone Place; when they in turn closed in 2013 it moved to its current site.[4] | |
Edgerunner | Owens Field, Goswell Road 51°31′50.8″N 0°06′18″W / 51.530778°N 0.10500°W |
Paul Neagu | Sculpture | Unveiled 25 July 2012[5] |
Farringdon
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Samson and Deliah | Greenhill Rents 51°31′11″N 0°06′10″W / 51.5198°N 0.1027°W |
~1609–1610 | Peter Paul Rubens | Painting | — | Copy made for the National Gallery's "On Tour" exhibition in 2007.[6] | |
Memorial to Edward Johnston | Farringdon station | 2017 | Fraser Muggeridge | Mural | — | Unveiled 24 June 2019. Giant reversed wooden letters in the typeface Johnston designed for the London Underground.[7] | |
Avalanche | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | A sequence of large diamonds appearing to tumble down the escalator, alluding to the jewellers, goldsmiths and ironsmiths of nearby Hatton Garden.[8] | |
Spectre | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | Based on a drawing by etched glass found in Victorian pubs.[8]
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Finsbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Science and Agriculture | City, University of London, College Building | 1894 – c. 1896 | c.Paul Raphael Montford | Frieze | Grade II | [9] | |
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Finsbury War Memorial | Rosebery Avenue | 15 August 1921 | Thomas Rudge | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [10] |
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Faceted Column | Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N 0°05′15″W / 51.5204°N 0.0875°W |
1999 | Stephen Cox | Sculpture | — | [11] |
Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash | Finsbury Square | 2013 | ? | Memorial | — | Unveiled 28 July 2013.[12] | |
Mercury | Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ? | [13] | ||||
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 |
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Crossed pistols tile motif | Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | — | [14] | |
Balloon mosaics | Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms | 1983 | Annabel Grey | — | [15] | ||
Sustrans Portrait Bench | Outside Finsbury Park station 51°33′54″N 0°06′20″W / 51.5649°N 0.1056°W |
2013 | ? | Sculpture | — | Depicts Jazzie B, Edith Garrud and Florence Keen.[16][17] | |
Gillespie Park triptych | Seven Sisters Road, by the entrance to Gillespie Park 51°33′50″N 0°06′21″W / 51.5640°N 0.1058°W |
2013 | London School of Mosaic | Mosaic | — | Made with two local schools and approximately 20 volunteers; represents the flora and fauna of the park. Unveiled 2 December 2013.[18][19] | |
Elm Tree of Life | Finsbury Park station Wells Terrace entrance 51°33′55″N 0°06′27″W / 51.5653°N 0.1076°W |
2020 | Carrie Reichardt, Karen Francesca and ATM | Mosaic | — | Opened 22 October 2020.[20] | |
CIL Mosaic | City North Place, at junction with Goodwin Street 51°33′52″N 0°06′27″W / 51.5645°N 0.1075°W |
2021 | Carrie Reichardt | Mosaic | — | Opened during the week of 20 September 2021. Commissioned by the Business Design Centre Group (BDCG) to honour Sam Morris, founder of BDCG and City Industrial Limited (CIL).[21] |
Highbury
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial
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Highbury Fields | 1905 | Bertram Mackennal | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [22] |
Statue of Francis Bacon | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [22] | |
Statue of Edmund Spenser | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [22] | |
The Neighbours | Highbury Quadrant Estate 51°33′31″N 0°05′37″W / 51.5585°N 0.0936°W |
1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Sculptural group | Grade II | [23] | |
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Highbury Manor tile motif | Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Edward Bawden | — | [24] |
Highgate
- Highgate is partly located outside the borough of Islington; for works not listed here see the relevant sections for the boroughs of Camden and Haringey.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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St Aloysius' College War Memorial | Hornsey Lane 51°34′13″N 0°08′20″W / 51.5703°N 0.1388°W |
after 1918 | ? | Canopied calvary with relief | Grade II | The Three Maries at the foot of the Cross.[25]
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Dick Whittington's cat | Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51°33′59″N 0°08′13″W / 51.5665°N 0.1369°W |
1964 | Jonathan Kenworthy | Sculpture | Grade II | [26] |
Holloway
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Prayer of Peace | Elthorne Park, Upper Holloway | 1986 | Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede | Sculpture | — | [27] | |
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Statue of Tony Adams | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[28] |
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Statue of Herbert Chapman | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[29] |
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Statue of Thierry Henry | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | Margot Roulleau-Gallais | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011.[30] |
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Statue of Dennis Bergkamp | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 22 February 2014.[31] |
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Statue of Ken Friar | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 28 February 2014.[32] |
Memorial to Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives
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Whittington Hospital | 2021 | ? | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 10 September 2021.[33] |
Newington Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft |
Newington Green 51°33′05″N 0°05′06″W / 51.5515°N 0.0851°W |
2020 | Maggi Hambling | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 10 November 2020.[34] |
Pentonville
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial at St Silas's Church | Risinghill Street 51°32′01″N 0°06′42″W / 51.5335°N 0.1117°W |
1917 | Arthur George Walker | Memorial cross | Grade II |
St Luke's
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Christ Healing the Blind Man | Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension | 1933–1935 (building) | Eric Gill | Relief sculpture | [35] | ||
Opening the Lockgate | Outside 250 City Road, opposite City Road Basin | 2020 | Ian Rank-Broadley | Sculptural group | — | 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.[36] |
St Mary's
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Frieze from Hall of Commerce, probably untitled, known as Commerce Welcoming All Nations and The Benefice of Commerce | Battishill Street Gardens, Napier Terrace. Originally in Edward Moxhay's Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle Street, demolished 1922. 51°32′23″N 0°06′15″W / 51.539821°N 0.104189°W |
1842 1975 (unveiled on present site) |
Musgrave Watson | Sculpted frieze | — | Frieze relocated for garden opening in 1975.[37][38] | |
Sculpture of hen with chicks | Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar, 109 St Paul's Road 51°32′46″N 0°06′07″W / 51.5461°N 0.1020°W |
1854 | ? | Relief sculpture | — | [39] | |
Sculpture of hounds chasing hare | 181 Upper Street (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub) 51°32′32″N 0°06′11″W / 51.5421°N 0.1031°W |
1856 | c.? | Relief sculpture | — | [40] | |
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Statue of Hugh Myddelton | Islington Green 51°32′09″N 0°06′13″W / 51.5357°N 0.1036°W |
1862 | John Thomas | Statue | Grade II | [41] |
Sculpture of three wheatsheaves | 56 Upper Street (formerly the Three Wheatsheaves pub) 51°32′08″N 0°06′15″W / 51.5355°N 0.1042°W |
1864 | c.? | Relief sculpture | — | [42] | |
Four caryatids
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116–118 Upper Street (formerly the Northern District Post Office) 51°32′18″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5384°N 0.1025°W |
1906 | c.? | Statues | Grade II | ||
Female figure | 75 and 75A Upper Street (originally the entrance to the Electric Theatre cinema, 1908–1916) 51°32′11″N 0°06′13″W / 51.5364°N 0.1037°W |
1908 | ? | Statue on dome | Grade II | The figure originally held an electric lighted globe.[43] | |
Memorial to Thomas Paine | Angel Court, Owen Street | 1991 | Kevin Jordan | Obelisk | — | [44] | |
Angel | Angel tube station | 1996 | Kevin Boys | Statue | — | [45] | |
Angel on the Green | Anderson Square garden 51°32′12″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5366°N 0.1026°W |
1999 | John Roberts | Statue | — | Unveiled 6 September 1999.[46] | |
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Angel Wings | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | — | [47] |
Halo | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | — | [47] | |
Islington Green War Memorial | Islington Green | 2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial) | John Maine | War memorial | — | [48] | |
Street Cat Bob
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Islington Green 51°32′11″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5363°N 0.1026°W |
2021 | Tanya Russell | Bronze sculpture | — | Unveiled 15 July 2021.[49] | |
Sculpture of Old Parr's head, plus other designs | 66 Cross Street / 290 Upper Street (formerly the Old Parr's Head pub) 51°32′23″N 0°06′08″W / 51.5396°N 0.1023°W |
? | Relief sculptures | — | [50] |
Shoreditch
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of John Wesley | Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51°31′25″N 0°05′14″W / 51.5237°N 0.0872°W |
1891 | John Adams-Acton | Statue | Grade II | [41] |
References
- ^ "Thornhill Road Gardens". War Memorials Online. War Memorials Trust. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Huntingdon Arms, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Clerkenwell Conference Centre (1298072)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Postal Workers' War Memorial (1420357)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Brannen, Aimee (28 July 2012). "Huge sculpture unveiled in Islington". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "The National Gallery's Grand Tour". The Guardian. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Edward Johnston: London Underground unveils memorial for the iconic designer". typeroom. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ a b Artwork at Farringfon: 'Avalanche' and 'Spectre' by Simon Periton, 2018. Crossrail. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Northampton Square area: Northampton Square and adjacent streets". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of London. Vol. 46. London: London County Council. pp. 304–321. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ Finsbury War Monument London Remembers. Accessed 4 August 2014
- ^ Planning approval
- ^ "Moorgate tube disaster – Finsbury Square". London Remembers. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ Rooftop Statues.
- ^ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Finsbury Park Accessed 3 August 2014.
- ^ The Mosaics at Finsbury Park Accessed 20 August 2014.
- ^ M@ (12 September 2019). "What Connects Michael Caine, Ronnie Corbett And Nicola Adams? London's Portrait Benches". Londonist. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ Stubbs, Dan (26 April 2013). "Soul II Soul's Jazzie B honoured with jazzy bench". NME. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ Dean, Jon (6 December 2013). "Mosaic 'first small step' in transforming Finsbury Park". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ "Gillespie Park triptych (2013)". London School of Mosaic. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ "Elm Tree of Life Mosaic Created at Finsbury Park Station". Inspiring City. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ Schofield, Blanca (27 September 2021). "Mosaic unveiled near Finsbury Park station entrance at City North". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Statues in Islington Accessed 18 July 2011
- ^ Historic England. "'The Neighbours' sculpture at Highbury Quadrant Estate (1031596)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Highbury and Islington Accessed 3 August 2014
- ^ "St Aloysians". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Historic England. "Whittington Stone, about 15 metres south of the junction with Mandala Avenue (1298038)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ O'Kane 2002, p. 159.
- ^ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012). "Tony Adams". From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012). "Herbert Chapman". From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012). "Thierry Henry". From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012). "Dennis Bergkamp". From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Stride, Chris; Thomas, Ffion; Wilson, John (2012). "Ken Friar". From Pitch to Plinth: The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Bartholomew, Emma (13 September 2021). "Statue to honour Windrush nurses unveiled outside Whittington Hospital". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ Topping, Alexandra (10 November 2020). "'Insulting to her': Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture sparks backlash". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Cherry & Pevsner 2002, p. 611.
- ^ "New Sculpture Celebrates Heritage Of The Regent's Canal". Londonist. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Relief: Battishill Gardens". London Remembers. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ Musgrave Watson frieze in Battishill Gardens Accessed 20 December 2010
- ^ "Hen & Chickens, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Hare and Hounds, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- ^ "Three Wheatsheaves, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ISBN 0-902260-21-9.
- ^ Rights of Man in Islington – UK Attraction Accessed 18 July 2011
- ^ Angel. Art UK. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Buckman, David (21 November 2002). "Obituary: John Roberts; Unworldly Sculptor in a Classical and Medieval Tradition" (PDF). The Independent. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ a b CV: Wolfgang and Heron CV. Public Art Online. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Art in the Open Resource – Islington Green Accessed 4 August 2014
- ^ Street Cat Bob: Statue unveiled to animal that inspired books and films. BBC. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Old Parr's Head, Islington". Pubs History. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
Bibliography
- Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). London: North. The Buildings of England. Vol. 4. London and New Haven: Yale University Press.
- O'Kane, Paul (2002). Donnell, Alison (ed.). "Jegede, Emmanuel Taiwo". Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 158–159.
External links
- Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Islington at Wikimedia Commons