List of public art in the London Borough of Southwark

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

Stuart Williamson's statue of John Keats (2007), Guy's Hospital

Bankside

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Poured Lines	Southwark Street	2006	Ian Davenport	N/A	Painting	N/A	The largest outdoor painting in Britain.[1]
More images	Monument to the Unknown Artist	Sumner Street	2007	greyworld	N/A	Animatronic statue	N/A	[2]
More images	A Family in Residence	Neo Bankside	2012	Ivan Murray	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A

Bermondsey

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Royal Arms of George III	Façade of King's Arms pub, Newcomen Street	1728 c. 1728	N/A	N/A	Architectural sculpture (relief)	Grade II	Originally stood on a gateway that spanned the old London Bridge. Placed on the pub's façade soon after it was completed in 1890.[3]
More images	Statue of Thomas Guy	Guy's Hospital 51.5043°N 0.0879°W / 51.5043; -0.0879 (Statue of Thomas Guy)	1731	Peter Scheemakers	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[4]
	Memorial to James Braidwood	Tooley Street	1862	Samuel Henry Gardiner	N/A	Relief		[4]
More images	Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington	Tooley Street 51.5029°N 0.0781°W / 51.5029; -0.0781 (Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington)	1910	Sydney March	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[5]
	Statue of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield	Guy's Hospital 51.4866°N 0.0695°W / 51.4866; -0.0695	1949	Maurice Lambert	N/A	Statue	N/A	[6]
More images	Bust of Ernest Bevin	Tooley Street 51.5028°N 0.0779°W / 51.5028; -0.0779 (Bust of Ernest Bevin)	1955	Ernest Shone-Jones after Edwin Whitney-Smith	N/A	Bust	N/A	[7]
More images	The Navigators	Hay's Galleria	1987	David Kemp				[8]
	Waterfall	Horselydown Square	1991	Antony Donaldson		Fountain with sculpture	N/A	[9]
	Exotic Cargo	St Saviour's Dock footbridge, Butler's Wharf	1995	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[10]
More images	Statue of John Keats	Guy's Hospital	2007	Stuart Williamson	N/A	Statue	N/A	[6]
More images	The Bermondsey Lion	The Blue 51.4924°N 0.0636°W / 51.4924; -0.0636 (The Bermondsey Lion)	2011	Kevin Boys	N/A	Sculpture	N/A
More images	Dr Salter's Daydream Alfred Salter	Cherry Gardens 51.5006°N 0.0597°W / 51.5006; -0.0597 (Dr Salter's Daydream)	2014	Diane Gorvin	N/A	Sculptures	N/A	Replaces a group of the same name installed here in 1991. The seated statue of Dr Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council.[11] The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada.[12]
	Memorial to Albert Edward McKenzie	Tower Bridge Road	2015	Kevin Boys	Tim Wood	Sculpture	N/A	[13]
	Lady with a Greyhound	Avondale Square
More images	Mandela Way T-34 Tank	Mandela Way 51.4930°N 0.0827°W / 51.4930; -0.0827 (Mandela Way T-34 Tank)					N/A
	Jacob the Dray Horse	Circle Apartments, Queen Elizabeth Street 51.50160°N 0.07438°W / 51.50160; -0.07438 (Jacob the Dray Horse)

Camberwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of Robert Bentley Todd	King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill	1863	Matthew Noble				[14]
More images	Burgess Park War Memorial	55 Wells Way (formerly St George's Church) 51.481784°N 0.085481°W / 51.481784; -0.085481 (Burgess Park War Memorial)	1920	Arild Rosenkrantz	N/A	Statue	Grade II	Unveiled 19 September 1920.[15]
More images	Statue of William Booth	Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51.4679°N 0.0886°W / 51.4679; -0.0886 (Statue of William Booth)	1929	George Edward Wade	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[16]
More images	Statue of Catherine Booth	Outside William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park 51.4679°N 0.0888°W / 51.4679; -0.0888 (Statue of Catherine Booth)	1929	George Edward Wade	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[16]
More images	Run	Denmark Hill	2009	Leigh Dyer	N/A	Sculptures	N/A

Dulwich

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Dulwich College War Memorial	Dulwich College 51.4402°N 0.0842°W / 51.4402; -0.0842 (Dulwich College War Memorial)	1920; 1990	N/A	W. H. Atkin-Berry; John Wells-Thorpe	Memorial cross with stelae	Grade II	Unveiled 17 June 1921 by Major General Sir Webb Gillman.[17]
More images	Dulwich Old College War Memorial	Dulwich Old College 51.4468°N 0.0859°W / 51.4468; -0.0859 (Dulwich Old College War Memorial)	1921	N/A	W. D. Caröe	Memorial cross	Grade II	[18]
More images	Memorial to Edward Alleyn	Dulwich Old College 51.4469°N 0.0860°W / 51.4469; -0.0860 (Memorial to Edward Alleyn)	2005	Louise Simson	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[19]
More images	Walking the Dog	Dulwich Picture Gallery	2009	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Presented by the Art Fund in 2011 to mark the Dulwich Picture Gallery's bicentenary.[20][21]
	Three Perpetual Chords	Dulwich Park	2015	Conrad Shawcross	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[22]

Elephant and Castle

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Elephant and Castle	Elephant and Castle	1898	?	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[23]
	Southwark Memorial	Walworth Square	2018	Kenny Hunter	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[24]

Kennington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3	Brandon Estate, Cooks Road 51.4825°N 0.1043°W / 51.4825; -0.1043 (Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3)	1961	Henry Moore	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[25]
More images	Segment of the Berlin Wall	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park	?	"Indiano" (Jürgen L. Grosse)	N/A	Segment of wall with graffiti	N/A	[26]
More images	Soviet War Memorial	Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 51.4962°N 0.1096°W / 51.4962; -0.1096 (Soviet War Memorial)	1999	Sergei Shcherbakov	Garry Breeze	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 9 May (Victory Day) 1999.[27]

Newington

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Statue of a king, possibly Alfred the Great	Trinity Church Square 51.4989°N 0.0936°W / 51.4989; -0.0936		?	N/A	Statue	Grade II	[28]
	The Black Friar	Friars House, Blackfriars Road / Pocock Street	1958	Edward Bainbridge Copnall		Relief		[29]

Peckham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	History of the Old Kent Road	The Everlasting Arms Ministries (formerly the North Peckham Civic Centre), 600–608 Old Kent Road 51.4833°N 0.0655°E / 51.4833; 0.0655 (History of the Old Kent Road)	1964	Adam Kossowski	N/A	Ceramic mural	Grade II	[30]

Rotherhithe

Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
Deal Porters	Canada Water	1990	Philip Bews	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	Unveiled 19 October 1990 by Jack Jones.[31]
Bust of James Walker	Greenland Dock	1990	Michael Rizzello	N/A	Bust	N/A	[32]
Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket	Cumberland Wharf	1991	Peter McLean	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A
Memorial to Christopher Jones	Churchyard of St Mary's Church	1995	Jamie Sargeant	N/A	Sculptural group	N/A	[32]

Southwark

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	The Sower	Red Cross Garden 51.5033°N 0.0948°W / 51.5033; -0.0948 (The Sower)	1896	After Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford	James Powell and Sons (glassmakers)	Mosaic	Grade II	[33]
	Plaque marking the approximate site of the Globe Theatre	Park Street	1909	Édouard Lantéri	N/A	Plaque with relief	N/A	Unveiled by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and commissioned by the Shakespeare Reading Society, of which Tree was President.[34]
More images	London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial	London Bridge station 51.5046°N 0.086°E / 51.5046; 0.086	1921	?	N/A	Plaques	N/A	Unveiled 5 October 1921.[35]
More images	St Saviour's War Memorial	Borough High Street, opposite Talbot's Yard 51.5043°N 0.0909°W / 51.5043; -0.0909 (Southwark War Memorial)	1922	Philip Lindsey Clark	N/A	Statue	Grade II*	[36]
More images	Minerva	Southwark Cathedral	1966	Alan Collins	N/A	Statue	N/A	[37]
More images	Southwark Gateway Needle	London Bridge, at south end 51.5062°N 0.0881°W / 51.5062; -0.0881 (Southwark Gateway Needle)	1999	N/A	Eric Parry	Sculpture	N/A	[38]
More images	Couple	More London Place	2003	Stephan Balkenhol	N/A	Statues	N/A	[39][40]
More images	Full Stop	More London	2003	Fiona Banner	N/A	Sculptures	N/A	[39][40]
More images	Evergreen	The Queen's Walk (More London)	2003	David Batchelor	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	[39][40]
	Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon	Churchyard of Southwark Cathedral	2006	Peter Randall-Page	N/A	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled 22 November 2006 by Elizabeth II.[41]
	Blue Men	Maya House, Borough High Street	2007	Ofra Zimbalista		Architectural sculpture	N/A
	Statue of Simon Milton	Outside One Tower Bridge	2016	Philip Jackson	N/A	Statue	N/A

References

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"Dulwich College WW! and WW2 – Cross", National Recording Project, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 4 March 2019
Historic England. "War memorial at Dulwich Old College (1393811)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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Our trunk road talisman, Elephant and Castle Partnership, retrieved 13 March 2019
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Historic England. "St Saviour's War Memorial, Southwark (1378368)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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Bibliography

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

Pearson, Lynn (2006), Public Art Since 1950, Princes Risborough: Shire Publications

External links

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

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[1] Davies, Serena (19 August 2006), "Dance to the music of lines", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 10 October 2018

[2] "Animatronic statue comes to Bankside", London SE1, 20 November 2007, retrieved 4 March 2019

[3] Historic England. "Kings Arms Public House with Refixed Coat of Arms (1385719)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 February 2019.

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2012192-4] Matthews 2012, p. 192.

[5] Historic England. "Statue on island site in front of South London College and railings (1385976)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 May 2018.

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2012193-6] Matthews 2012, p. 193.

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2012191-7] Matthews 2012, p. 191.

[8] "The Navigators". Atlas Obscura.

[FOOTNOTEPearson20064-9] Pearson 2006, p. 4.

[10] "Exotic Cargo", Peter Randall-Page, retrieved 6 April 2019

[11] Statue Of Dr Salter Stolen From Bermondsey, Londonist, 24 November 2011, retrieved 10 May 2014

[12] "Dr. Salter's Daydream", Philip Bews • Diane Gorvin Sculpture for public sites, retrieved 30 May 2018

[13] "Albert McKenzie VC memorial unveiled in Tower Bridge Road", London SE1, 23 October 2015, retrieved 28 June 2020

[14] "Sir Robert Bentley Todd, Statue, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill", National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 20 May 2018, retrieved 6 July 2017

[15] Historic England. "Burgess Park War Memorial (1444721)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 March 2019.

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2012222-16] Matthews 2012, p. 222.

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[18] Historic England. "War memorial at Dulwich Old College (1393811)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

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[21] "Walking the Dog", Peter Randall-Page, retrieved 24 March 2019

[22] Dulwich Park – Conrad Shawcross Commission, Contemporary Art Society, retrieved 10 March 2019

[23] Our trunk road talisman, Elephant and Castle Partnership, retrieved 13 March 2019

[24] Walworth Square – Kenny Hunter Commission, Contemporary Arts Society, retrieved 13 March 2019

[Henry_Moore-25] Henry Moore in London Accessed 6 January 2010

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[27] Soviet War Memorial, Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies, retrieved 16 March 2017

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[29] "The Black Friar, Relief, Pocock St.", Public Monuments and Sculptures Association, archived from the original on 2016-06-23

[30] Historic England. "Mural depicting the History of Old Kent Road (1442278)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[31] "The 'Deal porters' sculpture at Rotherhithe", PortCities, retrieved 28 June 2020

[FOOTNOTEMatthews2012195-32] Matthews 2012, p. 195.

[33] "Red Cross Garden 2", London Remembers, retrieved 16 April 2019

[34] "Globe Theatre plaque", London Remembers, retrieved 13 July 2019

[35] "London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and Southern Railway", War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 7 March 2019

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[38] "Southwark Gateway Needle", London Remembers, retrieved 25 February 2019

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London Borough of Southwark
Districts	Bankside Bermondsey Borough/Southwark Camberwell Crystal Palace Denmark Hill Dulwich Dulwich Village East Dulwich Elephant and Castle Herne Hill Honor Oak Newington Nunhead Peckham Peckham Rye Rotherhithe South Bank South Bermondsey Surrey Quays Sydenham Hill Upper Norwood Walworth West Dulwich
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