List of public art in Greenwich

This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Deptford

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
	Memorial to Margaret McMillan	Rachel McMillan Nursery School, McMillan Street 51°28′53″N 0°01′23″W / 51.4814°N 0.0230°W	1932	Sir Herbert Baker (architect)				Grade II	[1]
	Peter the Great	Glaisher Street	2001	Mihail Chemiakin	Statue			—

Greenwich

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
More images	George II	Old Royal Naval College 51°29′01″N 0°00′21″W / 51.48361°N 0.00595°W	1735	Rysbrack, John MichaelJohn Michael Rysbrack	Statue			Grade II	[2]
More images	The Immortality of Nelson	Nelson Pediment, Old Royal Naval College	1809–12	West, BenjaminBenjamin West and Joseph Panzetta	Architectural relief sculpture	Coade stone		Grade I	[3][4]
More images	William IV	King William Walk 51°28′48″N 0°00′24″W / 51.47989°N 0.00654°W	1845	Nixon, SamuelSamuel Nixon	Statue	Foggin Tor Devon granite		Grade II	Erected 18–19 December 1844 on King William Street in the City of London; taken down in 1935 and re-erected here, on a smaller pedestal, the following year. The principal work of this sculptor, who received insufficient recompense from the work's commissioners and came close to financial ruin.[5]
More images	Memorial to Joseph René Bellot	Cutty Sark Gardens 51°29′01″N 0°00′28″W / 51.48364°N 0.00786°W	1855	Hardwick, PhilipPhilip Hardwick	Obelisk			Grade II	[2]
More images	Memorial to the New Zealand Campaign (1863–4)	King William Walk 51°29′00″N 0°00′33″W / 51.4833°N 0.0091°W	after 1864	?	Obelisk			Grade II	[6]
More images	General James Wolfe	Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich Park 51°28′40″N 0°00′03″W / 51.47782°N 0.00085°W	1927	McKenzie, Robert TaitRobert Tait McKenzie	Statue			Grade II
More images	Sir Walter Raleigh	Old Royal Naval College 51°28′59″N 0°00′31″W / 51.48306°N 0.00867°W	1959	McMillan, WilliamWilliam McMillan	Statue			Grade II	Unveiled 28 October 1959 in Whitehall by the US Ambassador John Hay Whitney.[7] Moved to this site in 2001[8] as it was out of scale with other statues which had since been erected nearby.[9] The statue is close to the Discover Greenwich entrance within the grounds of the ORNC.
More images	Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge	Greenwich Park	1961–76	Moore, HenryHenry Moore	Sculpture			N/A	[10]
	Dolphin Sundial	Titanic Memorial Garden, Royal Observatory	1977–8	Daniel, ChristopherChristopher Daniel and Edwin Russell	Sundial with sculpture			N/A
More images	Captain James Cook	National Maritime Museum 51°28′50″N 0°00′17″W / 51.48051°N 0.0048°W	1994	Weller, ArthurArthur Weller	Statue			N/A	[11]
More images	Prime Meridian marker	Royal Observatory	1999	Garzia, ChristinaChristina Garzia	Sculpture			N/A
More images	The Throne of Earthly Kings	Devonport House	2004	Hameury, FrançoisFrançois Hameury	Sculpture			N/A	[12]
	Statue of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson	Trafalgar Tavern	2009	Povey, LesleyLesley Povey	Statue	Bronze		N/A	[13]
More images	Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle	National Maritime Museum	2010	Shonibare, YinkaYinka Shonibare	Sculpture			N/A
More images	Yuri Gagarin	Royal Observatory	2011	Novikov, AnatolyAnatoly Novikov	Statue	Zinc alloy		N/A	[14]

North Greenwich

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
More images	Quantum Cloud	Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′07″N 0°00′33″E / 51.50185°N 0.00913°E	2000	Gormley, AntonyAntony Gormley	Sculpture			N/A
More images	A Slice of Reality	Greenwich Peninsula 51°30′15″N 0°00′01″W / 51.50418°N 0.00028°W	2000	Wilson, RichardRichard Wilson	Sculpture			N/A	[15]
	Lenticular Dazzle Camouflage	Greenwich Peninsula 51°29′38″N 0°00′26″E / 51.493905°N 0.007183°E	2016	Conrad Shawcross	Sculpture	metal	49 m high	N/A	[16]

Woolwich

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
	Statue of a Barbarian or Deus Lunus	Royal Arsenal Brass Foundry, No 1 Street 51°17′36″N 0°02′25″E / 51.2932°N 0.0404°E	late-Roman period (1st–3rd century AD)	?	Roman statue	Turkish marble		?	Dug up by British troops in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1801 and shipped to Woolwich
	Crucifix	St Mary's Gardens, Greenlaw Street 51°29′36″N 0°03′32″E / 51.4932°N 0.05881313°E	18th–19th century?	?	crucifix	wood		?	Originally part of the church interior; moved here in 1966
More images	Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	Royal Arsenal, Wellington Park 51°17′37″N 0°02′37″E / 51.2937°N 0.0435°E	1848	Milnes, ThomasThomas Milnes	statue on pedestal	marble, Portland stone (plinth)		Grade II	Originally at the Tower of London, moved to the Arsenal in 1863
More images	Lioness resting paw on urn	St Mary's Gardens, Woolwich Church Street 51°29′36″N 0°03′37″E / 51.493357°N 0.06018106°E	1851	?	statue	stone		?	Tom Cribb's tomb
More images	Crimean War Memorial	Royal Artillery Barracks, south end of parade ground 51°29′06″N 0°03′38″E / 51.48513°N 0.06050292°E	1861	Bell, JohnJohn Bell	statue with pedestal surrounded by 12 cannon-bollards	bronze and stone	3 m (without pediment)	?	The figure of a woman distributing laurel wreaths, Honour, was cast from a Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol
More images	Major Little Memorial	Woolwich Common, Academy Rd / Ha-ha Rd 51°28′55″N 0°03′41″E / 51.482047°N 0.06133977°E	1861?	?	obelisk	stone		?
More images	Second Boer War Memorial	Grand Depot Road, opposite Royal Artillery Barracks 51°17′36″N 0°02′25″E / 51.2932°N 0.0404°E	1902?	?	obelisk	granite		?	Memorial to the men of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War (1899–1902)
	Statue of Alexander McLeod	Former Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society building, 125–161 Powis Street	1903	Drury, AlfredAlfred Drury	Statue in niche	Coade stone or terracotta?		Grade II	[17]
	World War I memorial	Royal Arsenal, Grand Store, Cadogan Road 51°29′39″N 0°04′24″E / 51.494216°N 0.07334383°E	1919?	?	relief	stone		?
	Maritime history of Woolwich	Woolwich Dockyard, Thames Path at Mast Pond Wharf 51°17′38″N 0°01′56″E / 51.294011°N 0.032183°E	1984–86	Community project	mosaic floor piece	ceramic			The mosaics are the result of a community project led by the National Elfrida Rathbone Society through an arts workshop based at the Clock House Community Centre
	Workers of Woolwich	Woolwich Arsenal station, platform 1 51°17′32″N 0°02′57″E / 51.292354°N 0.0492°E	1993	Williams, MartinMartin Williams	relief	terracotta			The work was commissioned by the British Rail’s Community Unit with the University of Greenwich and Greenwich Council, and is a tribute to the tens of thousands of workers at the Royal Arsenal
	The Woolwich Ship	Plumstead Road, opposite the Royal Arsenal 51°29′28″N 0°04′15″E / 51.491106°N 0.07086162°E	1999	Grimsey, TomTom Grimsey	sculpture	steel		N/A	The sculpture celebrates the naval history of Woolwich; commissioned by Woolwich Development Agency & Greenwich Council
	History of Woolwich Dockyard	Woolwich Church Street, Kingsman Parade pedestrian tunnel 51°17′36″N 0°01′55″E / 51.293329°N 0.032076°E	2000	Lobb, StephenStephen Lobb, Greenwich Mural Workshop & pupils of Cardwell Primary School	mosaic mural	ceramic		N/A	The mosaics are the result of a project by the Greenwich Mural Workshop, with Stephen Lobb as the senior artist, working with Cardwell Primary School
More images	Assembly	Royal Arsenal, James Clavell Square 51°29′41″N 0°04′12″E / 51.49485°N 0.070059°E	2001	Burke, PeterPeter Burke	group of 16 statues	cast iron	188cm	N/A
	Memorial to Dial Square, Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Arsenal Football Clubs	Royal Arsenal, outside the Dial Arch pub 51°29′33″N 0°04′11″E / 51.492502°N 0.06978873°E	c. 2005	?	sculpture	bronze, stone		N/A
	Street Life	Woolwich Arsenal station, Green's End / Beresford Square 51°29′27″N 0°04′07″E / 51.490755°N 0.06852809°E	2008	Craig-Martin, MichaelMichael Craig-Martin	ceramic art, mural	ceramic	extends over two storeys	N/A	More than 2500 individually screen-printed tiles by Manor Architectural Ceramics in Warwick
More images	Statue of Nike, goddess of victory	Royal Arsenal, No 1 Street, Main Guardhouse 51°17′35″N 0°02′57″E / 51.2931°N 0.04910°E	9 Sept 2012	Kougioumtzis, Pavlos AngelosPavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis	statue	bronze		N/A	A gift of the people of Olympia to commemorate the 30th Olympiad in London in 2012

References

1. "Memorial to Margaret McMillan at Rachel McMillan Nursery School, Greenwich". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
2. Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
3. "Nelson Pediment", Discover Nelson in Greenwich, retrieved 10 April 2015
4. Historic England. "Royal Naval College South West Building King William's Quarter (1211426)". National Heritage List for England.
5. Cust, L. H.; Cavanagh, Terry. "Nixon, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20213. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. "Monument to Officers and Men Who Fell in New Zealand Campaign 1863–64 (At North East Part of College, Greenwich". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
7. Blackwood 1989, p. 306
8. "Sir Walter's legacy". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
9. "Sir Walter Raleigh's Statue". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 12 April 1999. col. 501–503.
10. "Standing Figure: Knife Edge", National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, retrieved 8 April 2015
11. http://www.jimbatty.com/IMG/london/greenwich/5A122923.html
12. "The Throne of Earthly Kings", The Greenwich Phantom, 7 November 2007, retrieved 8 April 2015
13. Matthews 2012, p. 199
14. "Yuri Gagarin statue at the Royal Observatory". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
15. http://www.richardwilsonsculptor.com/projects/slice%20of%20reality.html
16. "Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre Revealed". C.F. Møller Architects. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
17. "Alexander McLeod", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, retrieved 28 December 2015

Bibliography

• Blackwood, John (1989), London’s Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues, London and Oxford: Savoy Press, ISBN 978-0951429600
• Matthews, Peter (2012), London’s Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the Royal Borough of Greenwich at Wikimedia Commons