List of public art in St Marylebone

This is a list of public artworks in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone in London, now a part of the City of Westminster. Architectural sculpture in the area is covered in the list of architectural sculpture in the City of Westminster.

Fitzrovia

Part of Fitzrovia lies outside the City of Westminster; for works not listed here see the List of public art in Camden.

Fitzrovia, so named since the 1930s when it became a haunt for bohemians, is situated to the north of Soho and east of Marylebone. Its eastern part is in the London Borough of Camden.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Untitled	Forecourt of the University of Westminster’s Cavendish Campus, New Cavendish Street	2001–4	Ben Joiner	Rock Townsend	Sculptures		Seven sculptures of varying degrees of abstraction, two of which are recognisable as flasks and one other as a funnel. They relate to the activities taking place inside the building behind, which houses the university’s department of Bio sciences.
	If Graffiti Changed Anything	Clipstone Street	2011	Banksy		Mural		The phrase is based on a quotation from the anarchist Emma Goldman: "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal". In the years since its creation the work has been covered by a Perspex sheet and has attracted other graffiti.

Lisson Grove

Lisson Grove, a residential area which urbanised as London expanded northwards in the 19th century, was designated a conservation area in 1990.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Echo	Rossmore Road	2004	Charles Hadcock		Sculpture

Marylebone

Marylebone is an inner-city area roughly defined as being bounded by Oxford Street to the south, Marylebone Road to the north, Edgware Road to the west and Great Portland Street to the east. Portland Place, part of the grand route from Regent’s Park to St James’s planned by John Nash (who is commemorated by a bust outside All Souls, Langham Place), has historically been an attractive place for the erection of memorials due to its width.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn	Park Crescent	1824	Sebastian Gahagan		Statue	Grade II	Unveiled 21 February 1824. The Duke, in robes and the collar of the Garter, stands with his right arm rested on two books, which lie on top of a truncated column. Among the symbols which appear on the column shaft is the Masonic all-seeing eye.
	Lord George Bentinck	Cavendish Square	1851	Thomas Campbell		Statue	Grade II	Erected 4 November 1851. Bentinck is depicted standing, in a contemporary frock coat. The pedestal appears to have been changed twice since the original installation, the first having been insufficiently lofty and the second excessively so.
	Memorial to Charles Wesley	Garden of Rest (St Mary-le-Bone Old Churchyard)	1858			Obelisk		Stands close to the site where Wesley was buried in 1788.
	William Pitt Byrne Memorial Fountain	Bryanston Square	1862		Julia Clara Byrne	Drinking fountain	Grade II	The fountain with plaque and urn finial stands upon a heap of differently coloured stones.
	Hamilton Memorial Drinking Fountain Sir James Hamilton, 2nd Baronet	Portman Square	1878			Drinking fountain	Grade II	Donated by Hamilton’s widow through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.
	Street Orderly Boy	Paddington Street Gardens	1881 c. 1881	Donato Barcaglia		Statue		Possibly the work Barcaglia exhibited in 1881 under the title Spazzacamino ("Chimney Sweep"). Donated to Marylebone council in 1943, when it was given its present title. Orderly boys were employed by the parish councils of London to clean the streets, but were probably unheard of in Italy.
	Wallace fountain Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet	Forecourt of the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square	1904 (cast of a design of 1872)	Charles-Auguste Lebourg		Drinking fountain	Grade II*	An example of the "large model" of drinking fountain donated by Wallace to the city of Paris from 1872. This cast was erected in Shoreditch in 1904, the gift of a local councillor. Re-erected on this site after restoration in 1960.
More images	Memorial to Quintin Hogg	Portland Place	1906	George Frampton		Sculptural group	Grade II	Unveiled 24 November 1906 on a site immediately opposite the Royal Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street; relocated in 1933. It also commemorates Hogg’s wife Alice and students of the Polytechnic killed in both World Wars.
	War memorial	Church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street	probably early 1920s		Walter Tapper?	Crucifix		No documentation for this sculpture appears to have survived.
More images	Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White	Portland Place	1922	John Tweed		Equestrian statue	Grade II	Unveiled 19 December 1922. The statue was the focus of the Boer War Veterans Association’s annual commemoration of the Relief of Ladysmith; a wreath was laid at its foot on 28 February every year until 1970.
More images	Memorial to Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister	Portland Place		Thomas Brock; completed by Frank Arnold Wright		Memorial with bust and other sculpture	Grade II	Unveiled 13 March 1924. Only the colossal bust of Lister was completed by Brock, who died in 1922. The group of Humanity with a nude male youth was completed by Wright, a studio assistant.
More images	John F. Kennedy Memorial	1 Park Crescent	1965	Jacques Lipchitz		Bust		Unveiled 15 May 1965 by Robert F. Kennedy. The fruit of a fundraising campaign by the Sunday Telegraph. Lipchitz struggled with the commission as Kennedy was not alive to take sittings. Displeased with the finished work, he was absent at the unveiling.
	Tile motif	Oxford Circus tube station, Victoria line platforms	1967–9 c. 1967–9	Hans Unger		Tile motif		The motif depicts the convergence of the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines within a circle representing Oxford Circus. The platform was damaged in a fire in 1984.
	Sherlock Holmes murals	Baker Street tube station platforms	1979	Robin Jacques		Murals		Murals depicting scenes from seven of Conan Doyle’s stories.
	Sherlock Holmes motifs	Baker Street tube station platforms	1983 c. 1983	Michael Douglas and Pamela Moreton		Tile motifs and enamel panels		The scheme consists of motifs of the detective’s head in profile and murals depicting scenes from his adventures. The designs were by Douglas, the over-glaze printing by Moreton.
	Mother and Child	Outside the Portland Hospital for Women and Children, Great Portland Street	1983	David Norris		Sculptural group		A glass surround and back-lights were added during improvements to the hospital’s forecourt in 2010.
	Mosaics and enamel panels	Oxford Circus tube station, Central and Bakerloo line platforms	1983; 1985	Nicholas Munro		Mosaics and enamel panels		Munro, a student at the Royal College of Art, based the designs on his (not entirely favourable) impressions of the station. The designs on the Central line platforms refer to the game of Snakes and Ladders and those on the Bakerloo line depict commuters in a maze.
	Arch motifs	Marble Arch tube station platforms	1985	Annabel Grey		Enamel panels		A series of sixteen colourful triumphal arch designs enamelled onto steel sheets. Each arch is made of nine separate steel sheets which had to be fired about ten times at an enamel sign factory in Sydenham.
More images	The Window Cleaner	Capital House, Chapel Street	1990	Allan Sly		Statue		30 November 1990. Sly’s brief was "for a figure expressing a wry sense of humour"; thus the window cleaner looks up at the 15 or so storeys of Capital House, for which his small ladder will be of little use.
	Cristos	St Christopher’s Place	1993	William Pye		Fountain with sculpture		Unveiled 13 July 1993. The piece refers obliquely to the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child across a river; here the water, in the sculptor’s words, "becomes the bridge itself", coursing down the arches of an open bronze structure into four small basins at the bottom and thence into grills in the pavement.
	Raoul Wallenberg Monument	Great Cumberland Place	1997	Philip Jackson		Statue with screen		Unveiled 26 February 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II. Wallenberg stands in front of a screen formed from stacked passports; his head is turned towards the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Another cast of the memorial is in Buenos Aires.
More images	Sherlock Holmes	Marylebone Road, outside Baker Street tube station	1999	John Doubleday		Statue		23 September 1999. No site was available on Baker Street itself, but the Abbey National building society, whose head office was on the putative site of No. 221B, agreed to fund the statue.
	Under Circumstances	Outside 20 Manchester Square	1999	Tony Cragg		Sculpture		Part of a series of works by the sculptor called Rational Beings, created by following the contours of a drawn line with stacked circles of polysterene. Here the resulting three-dimensional shape has been carved in Belgian granite.
More images	General Władysław Sikorski	Outside the Polish Embassy, Portland Place	2000	Faith Winter	Michael Goss	Statue		Unveiled 24 September 2003 by the Duke of Kent. Tomasz Zamoyski, a prominent Polish expatriate, first conceived the idea for the statue to complement the existing statues of Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle in London. The British and Polish governments each gave £5,000 towards the cost.
	Tyburn, Lethewards has sunk	Cramer Street	2000	Robert Dawson		Tile murals		Installed as part of Westminster City Council’s Hidden Rivers public art project.
	Thames North and Thames South	Outside 199 Old Marylebone Road	2001	Hamish Black		Sculptures		Sculptures formed from sheets of galvanised steel stacked on top of one another.
	Nexus	Outside York House, Seymour Street	2007	Robert Orchardson		Sculpture		Six soaring diamond-shaped forms in steel, painted black.
	World	Broadcasting House, Portland Place	2012	Mark Pimlott	MJP Architects	Work set into pavement
	Wrapper	Edgware Road tube station (Circle and other lines)	2012	Jacqueline Poncelet		Vitreous enamel cladding		The largest vitreous enamel artwork in Europe, decorating a new building and perimeter wall next to the station with patterns inspired by research undertaken in the area.

Regent’s Park

Part of Regent’s Park lies outside the City of Westminster; for works not listed here see the List of public art in Camden.

Regent's Park is one of London’s Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster. The sculptures in Queen Mary’s Gardens (laid out in the 1930s within the Inner Circle or Regent’s Park) were bequeathed by the artist Sigismund Goetze, who lived nearby at Grove House from 1907 until his death in 1939. In 1944 his widow Constance Goetze established a trust fund in his memory, known as the Constance Fund, for the financing of new sculpture in London’s parks.

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Type	Location	Date	Artist	Architect	Notes	Listing
	Eagle	Statue	Queen Mary’s Gardens, near the Island Rock Garden	early 19th century	Anonymous; thought to be Japanese	—	Naturalistic bronze statue of an eagle, with wings outspread, landing on a rock. Presented to the Royal Parks in 1974.	Grade II
	Lion Tazza	Stone bowl supported by sculpted winged lions	Avenue Gardens	1863	Austin and Seeley	—		—
	Readymoney Drinking Fountain Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney	Drinking fountain	Broad Walk	1869	—	—	A gift from the Indian industrialist, in thanks for the protection of the Parsis under British rule. Unveiled by Princess Mary of Teck.	—
	Hylas and the Nymph	Fountain with sculptural group	St John’s Lodge garden	1894	Henry Alfred Pegram	—	Originally titled The Bather. Part of the formal "Dutch" or "Old English" garden in front of St John’s Lodge. Presented to the park in 1933.	Grade II
	Boys with armorial shields	Sculptures	St John’s Lodge Garden	1894 and later	Sir William Goscombe John and Harold Youngman	—	Probably installed for the Marquess of Bute, to whom the lease for St John's Lodge was sold in 1888. Three of the figures are by Goscombe John and date to 1894; one, by Youngman, is of 1938 and the remaining two are undated.	Grade II
	Stealing the Cubs	Sculptural group	West of Three Island Pond, London Zoo	1906 (erected)	Henri Teixeira de Mattos	—	Donated to the Zoological Society of London by J. B. Wolff in 1906.	—
	The Lost Bow	Sculpture	Queen Mary’s Gardens	1913	Albert Hodge	—	Ornamental sculpture of a putto sitting astride a vulture, believed to have been commissioned by Sigismund Goetze for Grove House. Presented to Queen Mary’s Gardens in 1939.	Grade II
	A Mighty Hunter	Sculpture	Queen Mary’s Gardens	1913	Albert Hodge	—	Bronze sculpture of a putto wrestling with a duck, a pendant to The Lost Bow. (See above.)	Grade II
	Zoological Society of London War Memorial	War memorial	Outside the Butterfly House, London Zoo	1919	—	John James Joass	Based on a medieval Lanterne des Morts, a memorial to the dead in La Souterraine in the Creuse Valley, France. Joass was also the co-designer, with Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, of the Zoo’s Mappin Terraces, built 1913–14.	—
	The Goatherd’s Daughter Gertrude and Harold Baillie Weaver	Statue	St John’s Lodge garden	1922	Charles Leonard Hartwell	—	The statue was first exhibited in 1929, when it won the silver medal of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. It was erected on this site in 1931 by the National Council for Animal Welfare, in honour of its founders.	Grade II
	Jubilee Gates	Gates	Queen Mary’s Gardens	1935	—	—	The gates commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V and the official opening of Queen Mary's Gardens.	Grade II
	Boy and Frog	Fountain with sculpture	Queen Mary’s Gardens	1936 (donated)	William Reid Dick	—	A gift of Sigismund Goetze.	Grade II
	Triton Sigismund Goetze	Fountain with sculptural group	Queen Mary’s Gardens	1936	William McMillan	—	Due to the Second World War the fountain was not installed until 1950, when it was awarded a gold medal award for the best sculpture exhibited in London that year. The site was formerly occupied by a large conservatory belonging to the Royal Botanic Society, demolished in 1931.	Grade II
	Lion’s head	Sculpture	New Lion Terraces, London Zoo	c. 1970	William Timym	—	Presented to the Zoo by the sculptor in September 1976. Also on the New Lion Terraces is another sculpted head of a lion, a fragment from the demolished Lion House of 1875–6.	—
	Bear Cub or Winnie Memorial Winnipeg the Bear	Statue	Behind the Reptile House, London Zoo	1981	Lorne McKean	—	Unveiled by Christopher Robin Milne in September 1981, the statue commemorates Winnie-the-Pooh’s namesake, a back bear cub which lived in London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. The statue was a gift from the Trustees of Pooh Properties.	—
	Guy the Gorilla	Statue	Near main entrance, London Zoo	1982	William Timym	—	Unveiled 10 November 1982. A gift from Timym, the statue originally stood on the south side of the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys, but by 2009 it had been moved to its current site.	—
	Globe Sundial	Sundial	Next to the Macaw Aviary, London Zoo	1989	Wendy Taylor	—	Plaque inscribed This Globe Sundial shows in miniature how the Earth/ is bathed in sunlight./ Time is indicated by the fin which casts the least shadow./ The combination of the tilt of the earth's axis and the/ varying speed of its progress on an elliptical path around/ the sun causes a difference between the time shown and/ mean time of up to 16 minutes. The greatest differences/ occur in February and October. A work in aluminium on a brick pedestal, it was a gift of Alcan Aluminium Ltd.	—
	Memorial to Anne Sharpley	Urn	St John’s Lodge garden	after 1989	—	—	Plinth inscribed In affectionate/ memory of/ ANNE SHARPLEY/ 1928 – 1989/ journalist/ who/ loved this garden. Sharpley was a reporter for the Evening Standard.	—
	Dove	Sculpture	Members’ Lawn, London Zoo	c. 1990	—	—		—
	New Life	Sculpture	In front of Education building, London Zoo	1990	Willi Soukop	—		—
	Ambika Paul Memorial Fountain	Fountain with sculpture	Ambika Paul Children’s Zoo, London Zoo	1994	Shenda Amery	—	Ambika Paul was the daughter of Swraj Paul, later a peer, who funded the Children’s Zoo named in her memory. She died of leukaemia, aged 5, in 1968.	—
	Harry Colebourn and Winnipeg the Bear	Sculptural group	Children’s Zoo (behind café), London Zoo	1995 (unveiled)	Bill Epp	—	This second memorial to the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh shows the bear with the Canadian soldier who donated her to the Zoo; A cast of a group originally unveiled in Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1992. The model for the figure of Colebourn was his son, Fred.	—
	Plaque commemorating restoration of gardens	Plaque in pavement	Broad Walk	1996	Richard Kindersley	—	Inscribed THIS PLAQUE CELEBRATES THE RESTORATION OF THE AVENUE GARDENS BETWEEN 1993 & 1996. THESE GARDENS WERE DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD, 1794–1881 & CREATED BETWEEN 1863 & 1865.	—
	Plaque commemorating the Regent's Park victims of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings of 20 July 1982	Plaque on wall	Bandstand	1982	—	—	Inscribed TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE BANDSMEN OF THE 1ST BATTALION/ THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS/ WHO DIED AS THE RESULT OF A TERRORIST ATTACK/ HERE ON THE 20TH JULY 1982.	—
	The Awakening Anne Lydia Evans	Sculpture	St John’s Lodge garden	1998	Unus Safardiar	—	Plinth inscribed THE AWAKENING/ IN/ FOND MEMORY OF/ ANNE LYDIA EVANS/ 1929 – 1999/ WHO SHARED/ THE SECRET/ OF THIS GARDEN. Evans was a general practitioner in Marylebone who campaigned to improve the medical care of victims of torture.	—
	Unseen Prey	Sculptural group	Members’ Lawn, London Zoo	c. 1999	Shenda Amery	—	Amery’s website gives the following commentary on the work: "Here the artist is expressing the violent force of nature, but without malice. We see two cheetahs frozen in the moment of their pursuit, their prey is unseen. The outcome of the chase is invariably the kill, but the cheetahs are working in co-operation and are hunting out of necessity in order to survive."	—
	Dung Beetles	Sculptural group	B.U.G.S., London Zoo	1999	Wendy Taylor	—	Unveiled July 1999 by Queen Elizabeth II when opening the Web of Life exhibition, now called B.U.G.S.	—
	Swraj Paul, Baron Paul	Bust	Ambika Paul Children’s Zoo, London Zoo	2002 (erected)	Sadiq	—	A donation of £1m from Paul, an Indian-born industrialist, prevented the Zoo from being closed down in 1992.	—
	Sundial	Sundial	Thames Water Garden, London Zoo	2003	David Harber	—		—
	Gorillas	Sculptures	Gorilla Kingdom, London Zoo	2007	Bruce Pollin	—		—
	Clock	Animated clock	Blackburn Pavilion (Tropical Aviary), London Zoo	2008	Tim Hunkin	—	The result of a commission on the theme of Victorian attitudes towards nature, Hunkin’s clock takes inspiration from the work of the cartoonist Saul Steinberg and from Rowland Emett’s Guinness Clock for the 1951 Festival of Britain.	—
	Giant Tortoise	Sculpture	Giant tortoises display, London Zoo	2009	Owen Cunningham	—		—
	Girl and the Jaguar, Fox and the Girl, Boy and Butterflies	Sculptures	Regent’s Park	2010	Tom Harvey	—	The sculptor worked with a pupils from St James’s and St Michael’s Primary Schools to come up with ideas for the sculptures.	—
	Boris the Polar Bear	Statue	Broad Walk, near the Amphitheatre, London Zoo	2012	Adam Binder	—	Originally displayed for a month in Sloane Square, the life-size bronze statue of a polar bear then became a permanent fixture at the Zoo.	—
	Hari and his Mother	Sculptural group	Entrance to Tiger Territory, London Zoo	2013	Linden Hamilton	—	This replaced a statue by Carol Orwin titled Meow or Newborn Tiger Cub which was previously on the site.	—
	Hari Stretches	Statue	Tiger Territory, London Zoo	2013	Christine Close	—	A copper and bronze resin sculpture of a tiger stretching itself.	—
	Pouncer	Sculptures	Tiger Territory, London Zoo	2013	Carol Orwin	—	A bronze statue of a tiger cub learning to hunt, its eyes set on a flying frog.	—
	Territorial Challenge	Statue	Tiger Territory, London Zoo	2013	Teresa Martin	—	An iron and marble resin statue of a tiger on its hind legs, fighting.	—
	Tiger Going for a Swim	Sculpture	Tiger Territory, London Zoo	2013	Christy Symington	—	A bronze resin sculpture of a partly submerged tiger.	—

Works no longer on public display in Regent’s Park

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Type	Location	Date	Artist	Architect	Notes	Listing
	Bear and Child	Sculptural group	London Zoo	1928	"E. M. A."	—	Donated to the Zoological Society of London by Constance Goetze in memory of her husband. The sculpture’s location within the Zoo changed several times; in 2013 it took up residence in the ZSL’s library.	—
	The Seated Hand	Sculpture	Next to the Macaw Aviary, London Zoo	1988	Diane Maclean	—		—

St John’s Wood

St John’s Wood, a suburban area of largely Victorian buildings in the northern extremity of the City of Westminster, was declared a conservation area in 1968.

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Type	Location	Date	Artist	Architect	Notes	Listing
	Memorial to Edward Onslow Ford	Obelisk with sculpture	Abbey Road / Grove End Road	1903	Andrea Carlo Lucchesi	John William Simpson	Unveiled 13 July 1903. At the front of the memorial is a casting of Onslow Ford’s own Muse from his Shelley Memorial in University College, Oxford; behind is a portrait head of the sculptor by Lucchesi.	Grade II
	Grace Gates W. G. Grace	Gates	Lord’s Cricket Ground	1923	—	Sir Herbert Baker		Grade II
	Old Father Time	Weathervane	Lord’s Cricket Ground	1926	—	Sir Herbert Baker	A gift by Baker, the architect of the Grandstand, to the Marylebone Cricket Club and Lord’s. Moved to the Mound Stand in 1996 to allow for the demolition of Baker’s Grandstand and the construction of its replacement by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.	—
	Sporting figures	Bas-relief	Lord’s Cricket Ground, Wellington Road	1934	Gilbert Bayes	—	13 sportspeople, including tennis players, golfers, cricketers, swimmers, oarsmen and footballers are depicted in a procession. The inscription PLAY UP PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME is taken from Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" (1892). The setting was remodelled in 1995–6.	Grade II
	St Marylebone War Memorial	Equestrian statue	St John’s Wood roundabout, top of Park Road	1935 c. 1935	Charles Leonard Hartwell	—	Hartwell designed the bronze group of Saint George spearing the dragon for a war memorial in Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by Earl Haig. This later casting was a gift of the artist Sigismund Goetze.	Grade II
	Memorial to Alice Drakoules	Bird bath with relief sculpture	St John’s Wood Churchyard	1937	—	—	Alice Drakoules was the treasurer of the Humanitarian League who lived near this site, at Regent’s Park; the relief depicts a stag, a fox, a heron, a squirrel, a horse, a cat and a dog, representing the broad compass of the organisation’s work.	—
	St John the Baptist	Statue	St John's Wood Church	1977	Hans Feibusch	—	Predominantly a muralist, Feibusch turned to sculpture in 1970 as his eyesight began to decline; he produced a St John in cast resin in 1973. This cast of 1977 was installed in to mark the completion of the church’s new hall.	—
	Bowler	Statue	Lord’s Cricket Ground	2002	Antony Dufort	—	A figure of a cricketer in the first stage of the "follow through" position.	—
	Sundial	Sundial	Gardens of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth	—	—	—		—