List of public art in the London Borough of Newham

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

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Bromley-by-Bow

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of Corbet Woodall	Twelvetrees Crescent 51.5233°N 0.0051°W / 51.5233; -0.0051	1913–26 c. 1913–26	Arthur George Walker	Statue	Grade II	[1]
	Gas Light and Coke Company War Memorial	Twelvetrees Crescent 51.5233°N 0.0050°W / 51.5233; -0.0050	?	?	Memorial column with gas lamp	Grade II	[2]

Canning Town

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to Bradley Stone	Peacock Gym, Caxton Street North	1995	Ann Downey	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 10 January 1995.[3]

Docklands

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Landed	Excel Centre, Royal Victoria Dock	2009	Les Johnson	Sculptural group	N/A

Forest Gate

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	The Preacher	Forest Gate Methodist Church, Woodgrange Road 51.5480°N 0.0253°E / 51.5480; 0.0253 (The Preacher)	1961	Peter Laszlo Peri	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[4]

Manor Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Bust of Andrew Carnegie	Rabbits Road wall of Carnegie Library, Manor Park	1904	Unknown	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	[5]

Plaistow

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	West Ham Corporation Tramways War Memorial	Greengage Street	c. 1920	J. F. Richards	War memorial	Grade II	[6]

Royal Docks

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Athena	Outside London City Airport	2012	Nasser Azam	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 5 July 2012. This is the tallest bronze sculpture in the UK, at 12 metres high. The sculptor grew up in the borough.[7]

Stratford

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Statue of William Shakespeare	University of East London Stratford Campus	1840	?	Statue	Grade II	A statue in Coade stone, originally made for the Opera House (now Her Majesty's Theatre) in Haymarket. Presented to Stratford by a local councillor, J. C. Carroll, in 1925.[8]
More images	Samuel Gurney Memorial Drinking Fountain	Broadway 51.5409°N 0.0017°E / 51.5409; 0.0017	1861	John Bell	Obelisk	Grade II	[9]
More images	Memorial to the Stratford Martyrs	St John the Evangelist Church, Broadway 51.5415°N 0.0026°E / 51.5415; 0.0026	1878	J. T. Newman	Memorial	Grade II	[10]
	Memorial to Edith Kerrison	The Grove	1936	Christine Gregory	Memorial	N/A	Kerrison was the first female councillor in West Ham.[11]
	Memorial to Gerard Manley Hopkins	Outside Stratford Library, The Grove	1994	?	Commemorative stone	N/A	Unveiled 28 July 1994, the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth, by Seamus Heaney. Hopkins's birthplace was at 87 The Grove; the house was bombed in World War II.[12]
	Railway Tree	Stratford High Street 51°32′21.93″N 0°0′1.33″W	1996	Malcolm Robertson	Sculpture	N/A	[13]
More images	ArcelorMittal Orbit	Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park	2012	Anish Kapoor (with Cecil Balmond)	Sculpture	N/A
	Carpenters Curve	Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park	2012	Clare Woods	Mural	N/A	[14]
More images	Stratford Shoal	Stratford Centre	2012	Studio Egret West	Sculpture	N/A	[15]
	Untitled	Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park	2012	D. J. Simpson	Mural	N/A	[14]
More images	Statue of Joan Littlewood	Gerry Raffles Square, outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East	2015	Philip Jackson	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 4 October 2015.[16]

Upton Park

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	World Cup Sculpture ("The Champions") Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson	Barking Road and Central Park Road	2003	Philip Jackson	Sculptural group	N/A

References

Historic England. "Statue of Sir Corbet Woodhall [sic] (1392548)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
Historic England. "War Memorial (1392547)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
"Monument to Bradley Stone", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 12 January 2016
Historic England. "'The Preacher', Forest Gate Methodist Church (1430832)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"Andrew Carnegie", VADS, retrieved 30 August 2020
Historic England. "Tramway Workers War Memorial (1388315)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Humphries, Will (5 July 2012), "Tallest bronze sculpture in UK unveiled", The Telegraph, retrieved 16 January 2019
Matthews 2018, pp. 251–252.
Historic England. "Gurney Memorial Drinking Fountain (1358001)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
Historic England. "Martyrs' Memorial (1190750)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
Matthews 2018, p. 250.
"Monument: Gerard Manley Hopkins – E15", London Remembers, retrieved 12 January 2016
"Railway Tree". PMSA. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
Olympic Park – Clare Woods & DJ Simpson Commissions, Contemporary Art Society, retrieved 30 August 2020
Frearson, Amy (12 June 2012), "The Stratford Shoal by Studio Egret West", Dezeen, retrieved 11 March 2018
Hemley, Matthew (6 October 2015), "Joan Littlewood sculpture unveiled outside Theatre Royal Stratford East", The Stage, retrieved 26 December 2019

Bibliography

Matthews, Peter (2018), London's Statues and Monuments, Oxford: Shire Publications

External links

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

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[1] Historic England. "Statue of Sir Corbet Woodhall [sic] (1392548)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

[2] Historic England. "War Memorial (1392547)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[3] "Monument to Bradley Stone", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 12 January 2016

[4] Historic England. "'The Preacher', Forest Gate Methodist Church (1430832)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

[5] "Andrew Carnegie", VADS, retrieved 30 August 2020

[6] Historic England. "Tramway Workers War Memorial (1388315)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

[7] Humphries, Will (5 July 2012), "Tallest bronze sculpture in UK unveiled", The Telegraph, retrieved 16 January 2019

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2018251–252-8] Matthews 2018, pp. 251–252.

[9] Historic England. "Gurney Memorial Drinking Fountain (1358001)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[10] Historic England. "Martyrs' Memorial (1190750)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2018250-11] Matthews 2018, p. 250.

[12] "Monument: Gerard Manley Hopkins – E15", London Remembers, retrieved 12 January 2016

[railway_tree-13] "Railway Tree". PMSA. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[CAS-14] Olympic Park – Clare Woods & DJ Simpson Commissions, Contemporary Art Society, retrieved 30 August 2020

[15] Frearson, Amy (12 June 2012), "The Stratford Shoal by Studio Egret West", Dezeen, retrieved 11 March 2018

[16] Hemley, Matthew (6 October 2015), "Joan Littlewood sculpture unveiled outside Theatre Royal Stratford East", The Stage, retrieved 26 December 2019

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