List of public art in Kensington and Chelsea

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This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Belgravia

Part of Belgravia lies outside Kensington and Chelsea; for works not listed here see the List of public art in the City of Westminster
Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Notes Source
75px The Jeeves Ladies Sculptural group Outside Jeeves shop, Pont Street 1974 Kate McGill Based on the logo, depicting two gossiping Edwardian ladies out shopping, designed by Derrick Holmes for the dry cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia. Holmes also produced the maquette for the sculpture.[1]
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Brompton

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes
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More images		 Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman Brompton Oratory 1895 Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud Statue under canopy Campanella marble and Portland stone Grade II-listed Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner.[2]

Chelsea

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes
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More images		 Charles II Royal Hospital, Figure Court

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 1676 Grinling Gibbons Statue Gilt bronze Grade I-listed Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat, presented to the King in 1682 and installed in the Royal Hospital in 1692. Gilding removed 1782 and restored 2002.[3]
Millar Obelisk King's Road, Dovehouse Green 1751
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 Obelisk
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Chillianwallah Memorial Royal Hospital, South Grounds 1853 Charles Robert Cockerell Obelisk Grade II-listed [5]
120x120px Sir Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain Hans Place late 19th century Joseph Whitehead and Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion) Drinking fountain with relief sculpture
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 Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place.[6]
Chelsea War Memorial Sloane Square

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 1920 Sir Reginald Blomfield Cross Grade II-listed Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design.[7]
120x120px Fountain Wellington Square 1926
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 Fountain with sculpture
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 [8]
120x120px Venus Fountain Sloane Square 1953 Gilbert Ledward Fountain with sculpture Bronze Grade II-listed Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe.[9]
120x120px Girl with Doves Cadogan Square 1970 David Wynne Statue Bronze
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120x120px The Dancers Cadogan Square 1971 David Wynne Sculptural group Bronze
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Dancer with Bird Cadogan Square 1974 David Wynne Statue Bronze
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Young Girl Sloane Gardens 1980 Karin Jonzen Statue Bronze
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 [11]
120x120px The In-Pensioner Royal Hospital, North Front 2000 Philip Jackson Statue Bronze
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 Unveiled 4 May 2000.[12]
120x120px My Children Duke of York Square 2002 Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal) Sculptures Bronze
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 The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square.[13]
120x120px Sir Hans Sloane Duke of York Square 2005 Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack Statue
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 [14]
120x120px Chelsea Arts Club frontages 143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 various various Murals
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 [15][16][17]
Nell Gwyn Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue Architectural sculpture
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 [18]
120x120px Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids The Pheasantry, King's Road 1881 Amédée Joubert Architectural sculptures
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William Friese Greene King's Road, outside No. 208 Architectural sculpture (relief)
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Chelsea Embankment

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes
120x120px Memorial to George Sparks Chelsea Embankment, outside Chelsea Old Church 1880 Charles Barry, Jr. Drinking fountain
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 [21]
120x120px Thomas Carlyle Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 1882 Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm Statue Bronze statue on red granite pedestal Grade II-listed [22]
120x120px Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house)

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 1887 Ford Madox Brown Drinking fountain with bust Grey granite and bronze Grade II-listed Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Architect: John Pollard Seddon, in whose cottage in Bridlington Rossetti died in 1882.[23]
120x120px Carabiniers Boer War Memorial Built into the railings of Ranelagh Gardens, opposite Chelsea Bridge 1905 Adrian Jones Screen with relief panels Red brick, Portland stone and bronze [24]
Sculpture Of Atlanta-Chelsea.JPG Atalanta Near Albert Bridge 1907 Francis Derwent Wood Statue Bronze Grade II Installed on this site in 1929.[25]
120x120px Awakening Roper’s Gardens 1915 Gilbert Ledward Statue Bronze Installed on this site in 1965.[26]
Untitled bas relief Roper’s Gardens 1950 Sir Jacob Epstein Bas relief Portland stone Unveiled 3 June 1972.[27]
Chelsea thomas more statue 1.jpg Sir Thomas More Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk 1968 Leslie Cubitt Bevis Statue Unveiled 21 July 1969.[28]
Chelsea embankment memorial 1.jpg The Boy David Chelsea Embankment Gardens, east of Oakley Street 1971 Edward Bainbridge Copnall after Francis Derwent Wood Statuette on column Fibreglass statuette on a pink granite column Unveiled 8 May 1971. Previously Wood's half-size model of the figure for his Machine Gun Corps Memorial stood here; this was stolen in 1969.[29]
120x120px Boy with a Dolphin Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street 1974 David Wynne Sculptural group Bronze Unveiled 13 October 1975.[30]
Sir Hans Sloane Chelsea Physic Garden 1983 After John Michael Rysbrack Statue Replica of Rysbrack’s original of 1733, installed here in 1737 and moved to the British Museum in 1983.[31]
120x120px James Abbott McNeill Whistler Whistler’s Reach, near Battersea Bridge 2003 Nicholas Dimbleby Statue Bronze Unveiled 15 September 2005.[32]

Kensington

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Source
75px Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Statue Holland Park 1872 George Frederick Watts and Sir Joseph Boehm Unveiled 1926 [2]
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala Equestrian statue Queen's Gate

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 1891 Sir Joseph Boehm Originally stood in Waterloo Place, Westminster; moved to its current site in 1921. A replica of the statue to Napier in Kolkata. The boundary line with the City of Westminster bisects this statue. [33]
ImperialCollegeLondon.jpg Alfred Beit Bust Royal School of Mines, Kensington 1910 Paul Raphael Montford [34]
ImperialCollegeLondon.jpg Julius Wernher Bust Royal School of Mines, Kensington 1910 Paul Raphael Montford [34]
75px Kensington War Memorial Memorial Kensington Church Street, southern end 1922 (unveiled) F. W. Pomeroy Major Hubert C. Cortette Unveiled 1 July 1922 by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. [35]
75px Ernest Shackleton Statue Royal Geographical Society buildings, Exhibition Road side 1927–32

unveiled 1932

 Charles Sargeant Jagger [36]
75px Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Statue Queen's Gate 1961 Donald Potter
75px Volodymyr the Great Statue Holland Park Ave 1988 Leonard Moll
David Livingstone Royal Geographical Society buildings, Kensington Gore side
The Royal Geographical Society, Kensington.jpg Sir Clements Markham Bust Royal Geographical Society, Kensington
Twelve Faces of Man Thurloe Place
Béla Bartók Statue South Kensington Tube Station (currently relocated) Imre Varga

Kensington Gardens

See the list of public art in Kensington Gardens.

South Kensington

Image Title / individual commemorated Type Location Date Sculptor Architect / Designer Notes Listing
Memorial to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial Darwin Centre courtyard, Natural History Museum 2011
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 Carmody Groarke Architects Unveiled 6 July 2011 by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.[37] 4.1m³ of granite with one corner cut away, the largest single block of stone to be transported in Great Britain since the building of Stonehenge. Michael Holland, the memorial's principal organiser, lost his mother, wife and daughter in the tsunami.[38]
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Bronze statue of Alfred Russel Wallace.jpg Alfred Russel Wallace Statue Outside the Darwin Centre 2 building, near the wildlife garden, Natural History Museum 2013 Anthony Smith
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 Unveiled 7 November 2013, the centenary of Wallace’s death, by Sir David Attenborough. The statue depicts Wallace at the moment of his discovery of the golden birdwing butterfly in the Bacan islands of Indonesia.[39]
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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum, photographed in about 1960
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Detail of two of Alfred Drury’s relief panels above the main portal. The full inscription is taken from Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses: “The excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose”.
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Statue of William Morris by Arthur George Walker on the Exhibition Road façade
Subject Notes Type Location Date Sculptor Architect Source
Queen Victoria
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 Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
Albert, Prince Consort
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 Statue Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
St George
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 Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
St Michael
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 Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
9 allegorical figures
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 Relief panels Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
Inspiration and Knowledge
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 Statues in niches Cromwell Road façade 1905 Alfred Drury Aston Webb [40]
Truth and Beauty
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 Reliefs in spandrels Cromwell Road façade 1905 Sir George Frampton Aston Webb [40]
Edward VII
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 Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Sir William Goscombe John Aston Webb [40]
Alexandra of Denmark
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 Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Sir William Goscombe John Aston Webb [40]
Grinling Gibbons Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 William Silver Frith Aston Webb [41]
John Bacon Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 William Silver Frith Aston Webb [42]
John Flaxman Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Bertram Pegram Aston Webb [43]
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Bertram Pegram Aston Webb [44]
John Henry Foley Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 James Gamble Aston Webb [40]
Alfred Stevens Sculptor Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 James Gamble Aston Webb [45]
William Hogarth Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Reuben Sheppard Aston Webb [46]
Sir Joshua Reynolds Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Reuben Sheppard Aston Webb [47]
Thomas Gainsborough Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Stanley Nicholson Babb Aston Webb [48]
George Romney Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Stanley Nicholson Babb Aston Webb [49]
Richard Cosway Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Ernest Gillick Aston Webb [50]
J. M. W. Turner Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Ernest Gillick Aston Webb [51]
John Constable Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Vincent Hill Aston Webb [52]
George Frederic Watts Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Richard Reginald Goulden Aston Webb [53]
Frederic, Lord Leighton Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Gilbert Bayes Aston Webb [54]
Sir John Everett Millais Painter Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 James Stevenson (“Myrander”) Aston Webb [40]
William of Wykeham Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 J. Wenlock Rollins Aston Webb [55]
John Thorpe Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 J. Wenlock Rollins Aston Webb [45]
Inigo Jones Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Oliver Wheatley Aston Webb [40]
Sir Christopher Wren Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Oliver Wheatley Aston Webb [56]
Sir William Chambers Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Gilbert Bayes Aston Webb [57]
Sir Charles Barry Architect Statue in niche Cromwell Road façade 1905 Gilbert Bayes Aston Webb [58]
St Dunstan Craftsman Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Frank Lynn Jenkins Aston Webb [40]
William Torell Metalworker Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Frank Lynn Jenkins Aston Webb [40]
William Caxton Printer Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Paul Raphael Montford Aston Webb [40]
George Heriot Goldsmith Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Paul Raphael Montford Aston Webb [40]
Huntingdon Shaw Smith Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Abraham Broadbent Aston Webb [40]
Thomas Tompion Clockmaker Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Abraham Broadbent Aston Webb [40]
Thomas Chippendale Furniture maker Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Albert Hodge Aston Webb [40]
Josiah Wedgwood Potter Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Albert Hodge Aston Webb [40]
Roger Payne Bookbinder Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Arthur George Walker Aston Webb [40]
William Morris Textile designer Statue in niche Exhibition Road façade 1905 Arthur George Walker Aston Webb [40]

Knightsbridge

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Memorial to the victims of the 1983 Harrod’s bombing Harrod’s 1985 George Cook Stele and plaque The memorial to the police officers killed erected by the Police Memorial Trust, that of the civilians killed by the borough council.[59]

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