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
Main article: Brixton
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Bust of Henry Tate Brixton Library 1905Thomas Brock BustBronze Grade II [1]
Justice, Science, Art and Literature Lambeth Town Hall clock tower c. 1905–1908 Portland stone Grade II
Youth Lambeth Town Hall c. 1935–1938Denis Dunlop ReliefPortland stone Grade II

More images		 Pile of bricks tile motif Brixton tube station, Victoria line platforms c. 1971Hans Unger N/A [2]

More images		 Platforms Piece
Joy Battick, Karin Heistermann and Peter Lloyd		 Brixton railway station 1986Kevin Atherton StatueBronze Grade II [3]
The Brixton Heron Roof of the Prince of Wales pub, corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane

51.4615593°N 0.1152009°W / 51.4615593; -0.1152009		 2010Maggi Hambling Sculptural weather vane N/A Depicts a grey heron with a fish in its bill.
Foxes and Cherries Electric Avenue 2010Lucy Casson Fibreglass N/A
Brixton Speaks Electric Avenue 2011Will Self, Jack Self N/A
David Bowie mural Morley's department store, Tunstall Road 2013James Cochran Mural N/A [4]
Twins Somerleyton Road, Coldharbour Lane 2016Taslim Martin Cast iron and stainless steel N/A [5]

More images		 African and Caribbean War Memorial Windrush Square 2017 Obelisk N/A Unveiled 22 June 2017. The design was announced to the public in 2014.[6]
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion Windrush Square 2021Adjaye Associates N/A [7]
Brixton murals Various locations in and around Brixton town centre N/A

Clapham
Main article: Clapham
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Drinking fountain Clapham Common, between Long Road and The Pavement

51.4618°N 0.1406°W / 51.4618; -0.1406 (Drinking fountain)		 1884August von Kreling Fountain with sculptural groupBronze with granite plinth Grade II [8]
War memorial St Mary's Roman Catholic Church

51.4615°N 0.1372°W / 51.4615; -0.1372 (St Mary's Church War Memorial)		 1919–1920Giles Gilbert Scott War memorialLimestone Grade II [9]

Kennington
Main article: Kennington
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Decorative column Kennington Park

51.4835°N 0.1101°W / 51.4835; -0.1101 (Decorative column)		 1869 c. 1869George Tinworth ColumnTerracotta Grade II [10]
War memorial St Mark's Church

51.4816°N 0.1124°W / 51.4816; -0.1124 (War memorial of St Mark's Church)		 1921? Memorial crossGranite Grade II Unveiled 29 October 1921.[11]

More images		 Kennington War Memorial Kennington Park

51.4854°N 0.1083°W / 51.4854; -0.1083 (Kennington War Memorial)		 1924Thomas Arthur Lodge CenotaphStone Grade II Unveiled 19 July 1924.[12]
Memorial to Len Hutton Hobbs Gate, The Oval 1989–1993Walter Ritchie Relief sculptureBrick N/A The cricketer is portrayed scoring his record-breaking innings of 364 runs against Australia in 1938.[13] This work is said to be Ritchie's masterpiece.[14]

More images		 Memorial to Victims of the Kennington Park Air Raid Shelter Tragedy Kennington Park

51.4837°N 0.1103°W / 51.4837; -0.1103 (Kennington Park Shelter Victims Memorial)		 2006Richard Kindersley MemorialCaithness 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.[15]
Touchstone Oval Triangle 2018Peter Randall-Page SculptureGranite N/A [16]

Lambeth
Main article: Lambeth
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Statue of Edward VI Outside main entrance, St Thomas' Hospital

51.4998°N 0.1188°W / 51.4998; -0.1188 (Edward VI (Thomas Cartwright))		 1682Thomas Cartwright after Nathaniel Hanwell StatueStone Grade II* [17]

More images		 Statue of Robert Clayton A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital

51.5004°N 0.1195°W / 51.5004; -0.1195 (Robert Clayton)		 1702Grinling Gibbons StatueMarble Grade I [18]

More images		 Statue of Edward VI St Thomas' Hospital

51.4992°N 0.1195°W / 51.4992; -0.1195 (Edward VI (Peter Scheemakers))		 1736Peter Scheemakers StatueBronze Grade II* [19]
Mr Doulton in His Studio
Henry Doulton		 Southbank House, 81 Black Prince Road 1878 c. 1878George Tinworth Tympanum reliefTerracotta Grade II [20]

More images		 Revolving Torsion A garden outside St Thomas' Hospital 1972–1973Naum Gabo Sculpture with fountainStainless steel Grade II* [21]

More images		 South of the River Outside Becket House, Lambeth Palace Road 1975–1976Bernard Schottlander SculptureStainless steel Grade II [22]

More images		 Cross the Divide Outside St Thomas' Hospital 2000Rick Kirby Sculptural groupStainless steel N/A [23]

More images		 International Memorial to Seafarers International Maritime Organization, Albert Embankment 2001Michael Sandle Sculpture N/A Unveiled 27 September (World Maritime Day) 2001.[24]

More images		 Special Operations Executive Memorial
Violette Szabo		 Lambeth Palace Road, opposite entrance to Lambeth Palace 2009Karen Newman Bust N/A Unveiled 4 October 2009 by the Duke of Wellington.[25]

More images		 Statue of Mary Seacole Outside St Thomas' Hospital 2009Martin Jennings StatueBronze N/A Unveiled 30 June 2016 by Floella Benjamin.[26][27]

South Bank
Main article: South Bank
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 South Bank Lion Outside County Hall

51.5009°N 0.1198°W / 51.5009; -0.1198 (South Bank Lion)		 1837 (restored 1951)William F. Woodington StatueCoade stone Grade II* [28]
The Motorcyclist Shell Centre 1957Siegfried Charoux StatueCemented iron N/A [29]
The Shell Fountain Courtyard of the Shell Centre

51.5041°N 0.1163°W / 51.5041; -0.1163 (Shell Fountain)		 1959–1963Franta Belsky Fountain with sculptureBronze Grade II [30]

More images		 Zemran First floor terrace, Royal Festival Hall 1971William Pye SculptureStainless steel Grade II [31]

More images		 Statue of Fryderyk Chopin Royal Festival Hall 1975Bronisław Kubica StatueBronze N/A [32]
Jubilee Oracle Next to Jubilee Gardens 1980"Alexander" SculptureBronze N/A [33]
Passage Paving Outside Royal Festival Hall 1983Richard Harris SculptureConcrete N/A [34]
Pend Outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall 1983–1984Anne Nicholson SculpturePortland stone N/A [35]
Arena Walkway near the Royal National Theatre 1983–1988John Maine SculptureStone N/A [36]

More images		 International Brigades Memorial Outside County Hall 1985Ian Walters Sculptural groupBronze N/A [37]

More images		 London Pride Outside the National Theatre

51.507617°N 0.114764°W / 51.507617; -0.114764 (London Pride)		 1987 cast of a work of 1951Frank Dobson Sculptural groupBronze Grade II [38]

More images		 Bust of
Nelson Mandela		 Outside the Royal Festival Hall 1988 replica of an original of 1982Ian Walters BustBronze N/A [39]

More images		 Statue of Laurence Olivier Outside the National Theatre 2007Angela Conner StatueBronze N/A Unveiled 22 May 2007, the centenary of Olivier's birth.[40]

Stockwell
Main article: Stockwell
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Stockwell War Memorial Stockwell Road

51.4730°N 0.1220°W / 51.4730; -0.1220 (Stockwell War Memorial)		 1920Frank T. Dear War memorialPortland stone Grade II [41]

More images		 Swan tile motif Stockwell tube station, Victoria line platforms c. 1971Abram Games Tile motif N/A [42]
Tradescant Family Memorial
John Tradescant the Elder
John Tradescant the Younger		 St Stephen's Terrace 1988Hilary Cartmel Sculpture N/A [43]
Stockwell Memorial Mural Stockwell Memorial Gardens 2001Brian Barnes and Myra Harris MuralHousehold paint N/A [44]

More images		 Bronze Woman Stockwell Memorial Gardens 2008Aleix Barbat, after Ian Walters StatueBronze N/A [45]
Memorial to Jean Charles de Menezes Outside Stockwell tube station 7 January 2010Mary Edwards Mosaic N/A [46]

Streatham
Main article: Streatham
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes

More images		 Dyce Drinking Fountain Streatham Green

51.4283°N 0.1315°W / 51.4283; -0.1315 (Dyce Drinking Fountain)		 1862William Dyce Drinking fountainPortland stone, red sandstone and marble Grade II [47]

More images		 Streatham War Memorial Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North

51.4233°N 0.1294°W / 51.4233; -0.1294 (Streatham War Memorial)		 1921Albert Toft StatueBronze Grade II Unveiled 14 October 1922.[48]
Streatham Civilians War Memorial Memorial Gardens, Streatham Common North

51.4231°N 0.1316°W / 51.4231; -0.1316 (Streatham Civilians War Memorial)		 2006Ekkehard Altenburger War memorial pillarKilkenny limestone N/A Unveiled 21 October 2006. Inscribed GRIEF HAS NO BOUNDARIES, a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra.[49][50][51]
Charioteer with 4 horses Caesar's Night Club, Streatham Hill N/A

Vauxhall
Main article: Vauxhall
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes
Agriculture, Engineering and Pottery Vauxhall Bridge 1907F. 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 / 51.488036; -0.120039		 1949Peter Laszlo Peri ReliefColoured concrete Grade II [52]
Boys Playing Football Wareham House, South Lambeth Estate, Fentiman Road

51.480521°N 0.118925°W / 51.480521; -0.118925		 1951–1952Peter Laszlo Peri ReliefColoured concrete Grade II [53]
Mother and Children Playing Horton House, South Lambeth Estate

51.480854°N 0.119853°W / 51.480854; -0.119853		 1951–1952Peter Laszlo Peri ReliefColoured concrete Grade II [54]

More images		 Vauxhall Gardens tile motif Vauxhall tube station, Victoria line platforms c. 1971George Smith MuralsTiles N/A [55]

More images		 Bust of Basaveshwara Albert Embankment, opposite the junction with Tinworth Street 2015Sridhar Murthy BustBronze N/A Unveiled 14 November 2015 by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India.[56][57]
Underline Vauxhall tube station Giles Round, Design Work Leisure MuralsTiles N/A [58]

Waterloo
Main article: Waterloo, London
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 DateArtist / designer TypeMaterial Designation Notes
War memorial St John's Church

51.5045°N 0.1124°W / 51.5045; -0.1124 (War memorial at St John's Church, Waterloo)		 1919? CrucifixBronze and wood Grade II [59]

More images		 Victory Arch
London and South Western Railway War Memorial		 Entrance arch of Waterloo station

51.503752°N 0.113879°W / 51.503752; -0.113879 (Victory Arch)		 1919–1922Charles Whiffen War memorialPortland stone Grade II Opened 21 March 1922.[60][61]
Memorial to Eva Hubback Morley College 1963David Rowles-Chapman ReliefStone N/A [62]

More images		 Blake's Lambeth Tunnels alongside Archbishop's Park, near Waterloo station 2005–2015Southbank Mosaics after William Blake MosaicsMosaic N/A 70 mosaics based on the work of Blake, who lived for ten of his most productive years in Lambeth, at 13 Hercules Buildings.[63]
Mosaic portraits
Emma Cons, Violette Szabo, Jude Kelly, Octavia Hill, Lilian Baylis, Mary Seacole, Eva Hubback, Natalie Bell, Margaret Mellor, Heather Rabbatts, Mrs Mallet, Annie McCall, Caroline Martineau, Hester Thrale		 Morley College 2012Southbank Mosaics MosaicsMosaic N/A Unveiled 3 July 2012.[64]

More images		 Battle of Waterloo Memorial Waterloo station

51.5033°N 0.1117°W / 51.5033; -0.1117 (Battle of Waterloo Memorial)		 2015Jason 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.[65]

See also

References
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  2. Porter, Laura. "Victoria Line Tile Motifs – Brixton". Go London. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  3. Historic England. "Platforms Piece (1438640)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  4. Dickens, Tim (24 June 2013). "David Bowie Brixton mural officially unveiled". Brixton Blog. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  5. Cuppage, Jane. "JUST MAKE IT: Tas' Twin Sculpture". Camberwell College of Arts blog. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  6. 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.
  7. Ravenscroft, Tom (26 April 2021). "Adjaye Associates unveils Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion in Brixton". Dezeen. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
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  10. Historic England. "Decorative column on west side of Kennington Park (1080382)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  11. Historic England. "First World War Memorial at the Church of St Mark, Kennington (1449576)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  12. Historic England. "Kennington War Memorial (1441730)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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  16. "Touchstone". Peter Randall-Page. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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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  29. "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.
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  32. Restoration of Chopin Statue at Royal Festival Hall. The Polish Heritage Society. May 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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