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The statue of Charles II by Grinling Gibbons at Royal Hospital Chelsea

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

Map of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Belgravia

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See the list of public art in Belgravia.

Brompton

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes

More images 		Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman Brompton Oratory 1895 Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud Statue under canopy Campanella marble and Portland stone Grade II Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner.[1]


Chelsea

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes

More images 		Statue of Charles II Royal Hospital, Figure Court

51°29′14″N 0°09′28″W / 51.4871°N 0.1577°W / 51.4871; -0.1577 (Charles II) 		1676 Grinling Gibbons Statue Gilt bronze Grade I 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.[2]
Millar Obelisk King's Road, Dovehouse Green 1751 ? Obelisk — [3]
Chillianwallah Memorial Royal Hospital, South Grounds 1853 Charles Robert Cockerell Obelisk Grade II [4]
Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids The Pheasantry, King's Road 1881 Amédée Joubert Architectural sculptures Grade II [5]
Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain Hans Place late 19th century Joseph Whitehead and Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion) Drinking fountain with relief sculpture — Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place.[6]
Christ, the Apostles, bishop, king and an angel with the Shield of the Trinity Over entrance to Holy Trinity, Sloane Street 1890 John Dando Sedding Architectural sculpture (relief) Grade I

More images 		Chelsea War Memorial Sloane Square

51°29′33″N 0°09′25″W / 51.4926°N 0.1570°W / 51.4926; -0.1570 (Chelsea War Memorial) 		1920 Reginald Blomfield Cross Grade II Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design.[7]
Fountain Wellington Square 1926 ? Fountain with sculpture — [8]
Portrait roundel of William Friese-Greene King's Road, outside No. 208 1934 Newbury Abbot Trent Architectural sculpture — [9]
Statue of Nell Gwyn Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue Architectural sculpture — [10]

More images 		Venus Fountain Sloane Square 1953 Gilbert Ledward Fountain with sculpture Bronze Grade II Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe.[11]
Girl with Doves Cadogan Square 1970 David Wynne Statue Bronze —
The Dancers Cadogan Square 1971 David Wynne Sculptural group Bronze — [12]
Dancer with Bird Cadogan Square 1974 David Wynne Statue Bronze — [12]
Young Girl Sloane Gardens 1980 Karin Jonzen Statue Bronze — [13]

More images 		The In-Pensioner Royal Hospital, North Front 2000 Philip Jackson Statue Bronze — Unveiled 4 May 2000.[14]
My Children Duke of York Square 2002 Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal) Sculptures Bronze — The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square.[15]

More images 		Statue of Hans Sloane Duke of York Square 2005 Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack Statue Portland stone — Unveiled 14 June 2007.[16][17]

More images 		In-Pensioner Royal Hospital, Light Horse Court 2009 Mary Catterall Statue Bronze — A gift of the sculptor.[18]
Chelsea Arts Club frontages 143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB

51°29′17″N 0°10′29″W / 51.48806°N 0.17472°W / 51.48806; -0.17472 		various various Murals — [19][20][21]


Chelsea Embankment

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes

More images 		George Sparkes Memorial Drinking Fountain Cheyne Walk 1880 Charles Barry Jr. Drinking fountain Granite — [22]

More images 		Statue of Thomas Carlyle Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street

51°29′00″N 0°10′09″W / 51.4832°N 0.1691°W / 51.4832; -0.1691 (Thomas Carlyle) 		1882 Joseph Edgar Boehm Statue Bronze statue on red granite pedestal Grade II [23]

More images 		Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house)

51°29′01″N 0°09′57″W / 51.4837°N 0.1658°W / 51.4837; -0.1658 (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Memorial) 		1887 Ford Madox Brown (bust) Drinking fountain with bust Grey granite and bronze Grade II Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Designed by the architect John Pollard Seddon; Rossetti had died in Seddon's cottage in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1882.[24]

More images 		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 — [25]

More images 		Awakening Roper's Gardens 1915 Gilbert Ledward Statue Bronze — Installed on this site in 1965.[26]

More images 		Atalanta Near Albert Bridge 1929 Francis Derwent Wood Statue Bronze Grade II Based on a plaster sculpture of 1907 and one in marble of 1909. A bronze was installed on this site in 1929.[27]

More images 		Woman Removing Her Dress Roper's Gardens 1950 Jacob Epstein Bas relief Portland stone — Unveiled 3 June 1972.[28][29]

More images 		Statue of Thomas More Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk 1968 Leslie Cubitt Bevis Statue — Unveiled 21 July 1969.[30]

More images 		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.[31]

More images 		Boy with a Dolphin Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street 1974 David Wynne Sculptural group Bronze — Unveiled 13 October 1975.[32]

More images 		Statue of James McNeill Whistler Whistler's Reach, near Battersea Bridge 2003 Nicholas Dimbleby Statue Bronze — Unveiled 15 September 2005.[33]

More images 		Bust of Ralph Vaughan Williams Chelsea Embankment Gardens 2012 Marcus Cornish Bust — Unveiled 5 September 2012.[34]

More images 		Statue of Hans Sloane Chelsea Physic Garden 2014 Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack Statue Portland stone — Unveiled 28 April 2014 by Lord Cadogan, a descendant of Sloane's.[35] Based on Rysbrack's marble original of 1733, moved from this site to the British Museum in 1983. This replica is the third to stand here; its predecessors in fibreglass and jesmonite both deteriorated quickly.[36]


Kensington

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See the list of public art in Kensington and the list of public art in Kensington Gardens.

Knightsbridge

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See the list of public art in Knightsbridge.

Ladbroke Grove

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Memorial to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash Canal Way 2001 Richard Healy Stele — [37]


References

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  1. ^ "Cardinal Newman, Statue, Brompton Oratory Complex". National Recording Project. PMSA. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 18
  3. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 20
  4. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 19
  5. ^ "Simon's Walks – At Home In Chelsea". At Home In Chelsea. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  6. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 37
  7. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 31
  8. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 26
  9. ^ "William Friese Greene". London Remembers. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  10. ^ "Rooftop Statues".
  11. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 30
  12. ^ a b Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 33
  13. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 28
  14. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 17
  15. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 27
  16. ^ Sir Hans Sloane statue. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  17. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 29
  18. ^ In Pensioner. Art UK. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  19. ^ "JtChatter".
  20. ^ "Chelsea Arts Club | Patrick Baty – Historical paint consultant".
  21. ^ "Chelsea Arts Club.. | BEGG". Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  22. ^ George Sparkes Memorial Drinking Fountain. Art UK. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  23. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 9
  24. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 13
  25. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 16
  26. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 1
  27. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 10
  28. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 2
  29. ^ Evelyn Silber (1986). The Sculpture of Epstein with a complete catalogue. Phaidon. ISBN 0714822620.
  30. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 6
  31. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 12
  32. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 11
  33. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 4
  34. ^ "Ralph Vaughan Williams – bust". London Remembers. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  35. ^ "Sir Hans Sloane Statue – Chelsea Physic Garden". Simon Smith Stone Carving. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  36. ^ Nolan & Starren 2012, no. 15
  37. ^ Matthews 2018, p. 225

Bibliography

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  • Matthews, Peter (2018). London's Statues and Monuments. Oxford: Shire Publications.
  • Nolan, David; Starren, Caroline (2012). On Public View: A journey around the sculpture of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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