List of public art in Tower Hamlets

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Notes
More images	Milligan, RobertRobert Milligan	Museum of London Docklands Hertsmere Road	1813	Westmacott, RichardRichard Westmacott
More images	Testa Addormentata	Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street	1983	Mitoraj, IgorIgor Mitoraj					[1]
More images	Couple on a Seat	Cabot Square	1984	Chadwick, LynnLynn Chadwick					[2]
More images	Centurione I	Columbus Courtyard	1987	Mitoraj, IgorIgor Mitoraj					[3]
More images	Leap	Jamestown Harbour	1987–9	Belsky, FrantaFranta Belsky					[4]
More images	Two Men on a Bench	Cabot Square	1990	Penny, GilesGiles Penny					[5]
	Gate	Westferry Circus	1992	Lund, GiuseppeGiuseppe Lund					[6]
More images	Centauro	Upper Bank Street	1994	Mitoraj, IgorIgor Mitoraj					[7]
More images	Man With Arms Open	West India Avenue	1995	Penny, GilesGiles Penny					[8]
More images	Figurehead for Docklands	Poplar Dock	1997	Bisset, AnnaAnna Bisset					[9]
	Clemm !Portrait relief of Michael von Clemm	Cabot Square	1998	Laing, GeraldGerald Laing					[10]
More images	Traffic Light Tree	roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013)	1998	Vivant, PierrePierre Vivant					[11]
More images	Original Form	25 North Colonnade	1999	Rand, KeithKeith Rand					[12]
More images	Six Public Clocks	Reuters Plaza	1999	Grcic, KonstantinKonstantin Grcic					[13]
More images	Vanishing Point	Westferry Circus	1999	Battle, JayJay Battle					[14]
More images	Columbus Screen	Columbus Courtyard	2000	Ramshaw, WendyWendy Ramshaw					[15]
More images	Hibbert Gate	Adjacent to North Dock West	2000	Stevenson, LeoLeo Stevenson					[16]
More images	Returning to Embrace	10 Cabot Square	2000	Buck, JonJon Buck					[17]
More images	It Takes Two	One Canada Square	2002	Allen, BobBob Allen					[18]
More images	HSBC lions	8 Canada Square	2002	Wagstaff !after W. W. Wagstaff
	Arbor	Montgomery Square	2003	Ross, NigelNigel Ross					[19]
	Cross Way	Montgomery Square	2003	Ross, NigelNigel Ross					[19]
	Sacrificial Anode	Montgomery Square	2007	O'Connell, EilisEilis O'Connell					[20]
More images	Sasso Cosmico	Westferry Circus	2007	König Vassilakis, DoDo König Vassilakis					[21]
	Avatar	Westferry Circus	2009	Worley, RobertRobert Worley					[22]
More images	Torsion II	Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit	2009–11	Hadcock, CharlesCharles Hadcock					[23]
More images	Drawing Cube (Blue)	Montgomery Square	2010	Dutt, SureshSuresh Dutt					[24]
	Domino Players	Clove Crescent	1992	Bennet, KimKim Bennet					[25]
	London River Man	Ensign House, Marsh Wall
More images	Renaissance	Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock		Blik, MauriceMaurice Blik					[26]
More images	Spirit of Enterprise	South Dock, Canary Wharf 51°30′9.83″N 0°1′29.04″W / 51.5027306°N 0.0247333°W / 51.5027306; -0.0247333	1987	Taylor, WendyWendy Taylor					[27]
	Speaking of the River	Canary Riverside 51°30′22.48″N 0°1′43.72″W / 51.5062444°N 0.0288111°W / 51.5062444; -0.0288111	2000	DeJong, ConstanceConstance DeJong	audio benches				[28]
	Windwand	Canary Riverside 51°30′20.87″N 0°1′41.43″W / 51.5057972°N 0.0281750°W / 51.5057972; -0.0281750	2000	Arad, RonRon Arad		carbon fibre	50 m high		[28]
	Chimney	Westferry Circus 51°30′19.74″N 0°1′34.55″W / 51.5054833°N 0.0262639°W / 51.5054833; -0.0262639	2008	Burton, AndrewAndrew Burton		recycled fired bricks, steel			[28]
	12 Planters	Columbus Courtyard 51°30′22.53″N 0°1′30.69″W / 51.5062583°N 0.0251917°W / 51.5062583; -0.0251917	2001–2002	Orloff, TatianaTatiana Orloff		bronze			[28]

Mile End and Bow

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Green !Statue of Richard Green	East India Dock Road	1865/6	Wyon, Edward WilliamEdward William Wyon	Statue	C !Grade II	[29]
	Gladstone !Statue of William Ewart Gladstone	In front of Bow Church, Bow Road	1882	Bruce-Joy, AlbertAlbert Bruce-Joy	Statue	C !Grade II
	Edward 7 !Bust of Edward VII	39 Mile End Road	1911	?	Bust	C !Grade II	Unveiled 12 October 1911.[30]
	Attlee !Statue of Clement Attlee	Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road	1988	Forster, FrankFrank Forster	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 30 November 1988 in its original location, outside Limehouse Library, by Harold Wilson, the last living member of Attlee's cabinet.[31] The figure holds a copy of the National Assistance Act 1948. In 2005 the work was badly vandalised and was boxed up to prevent further damage; it was removed to its current location in 2010.[32] Peter Mandelson gave the statue its second unveiling on 4 April 2011.[33]
	Knowledge	Library Square on the campus of Queen Mary, University of London
	Renaissance	junction of Saffron Avenue and Clove Crescent		Blik, MauriceMaurice Blik

Poplar

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Children's Memorial	Poplar Recreation Ground	1919	Adams, A. R.A. R. Adams		C !Grade II	Unveiled 23 June 1919.[34] Commemorates the 18 children who were killed in a bombing raid (the first daylight raid of World War I) on Upper North Street School on 13 June 1917.[35]
	Shadow Play	In front of Compass House, Mulberry Place	1992	King, DaveDave King			[29]
	Virginia Settlers Monument	Jamestown Way	1999	Taylor, WendyWendy Taylor			[29]
	Meridians and Metaphors	Near the junction of Clove Crescent and Saffron Avenue		Jacobson, DavidDavid Jacobson

Rotherhithe

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Walker !Bust of James Walker	Greenland Dock	1990	Rizzello, MichaelMichael Rizzello	Bust	N/A	[36]

St Katharine's Dock

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Cannon	Entrance to St Katharine Docks	18th century				[37]
	Anchor of Amsterdam	St Katharine Docks, at entrance to East Dock	1748 (placed here 1980s)				[37]
More images	Girl with Dolphin	Beside River Thames between Tower Bridge and entrance to docks	1973	Wynne, DavidDavid Wynne			[37]
More images	Timepiece	Entrance to St Katharine Docks	1973	Taylor, WendyWendy Taylor			[37]
	Elephants	Entrance to Ivory House, on gateposts	1973	Drew, PeterPeter Drew			[37]
	Geese	Thomas More Street	1990	Norris, DavidDavid Norris			[37]
	To Meet Again	Thomas More Street	1990	Beck, MichaelMichael Beck			[37]
	Angelic Musician	Thomas More Street	1991	Milles, CarlCarl Milles			[37]
	Exotic Birds and other sculptures	Various locations around St Katharine Docks	1995–97	Haughney, PaulaPaula Haughney			[37]

Shadwell

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Edward 7 !Memorial to Edward VII	King Edward Memorial Park	1922	Mackennal, BertramBertram Mackennal	Drinking fountain (formerly)		The bronze portrait medallion of Edward VII was stolen in 2007.[38]
	Navigators' Memorial	King Edward Memorial Park	1922	?	Commemorative stone		[38]

Spitalfields

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	I Goat	Brushfield Street	2011	Hunter, KennyKenny Hunter	Sculpture	N/A	[39]
	Vortex	Lamb Street	1999	Sandler, BarbaraBarbara Sandler	Sculpture	N/A	[40]

Wapping

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Bluecoat Girl	Raine's House		?	Statue in niche
	Bluecoat Boy	Raine's House		?	Statue in niche
	Rennie !Bust of John Rennie the Elder	Spirit Quay	1992	Ravera, JohnJohn Ravera	Bust	N/A	[38]
	Blitz Memorial	Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden	2008	Taylor, WendyWendy Taylor	Sculpture	N/A	Unveiled in July 2008 by Hazel Blears, then the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and Alf Roffey, a survivor of the Blitz. On the site of Hermitage Wharf, which was destroyed in a bombing raid on 29 December 1940.[41]

Whitechapel

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	Alexandra !Statue of Alexandra of Denmark	Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital	1908	Wade, George EdwardGeorge Edward Wade		C !Grade II	[42]
More images	Edward VII Memorial Drinking Fountain	Mile End Road	1911	Frith, William SilverWilliam Silver Frith		C !Grade II	[43]
	Booth !Bust of William Booth	Mile End Road	1927	Wade, George EdwardGeorge Edward Wade			[44]
	Booth !Statue of William Booth	Mile End Road	1979 (casting)	Wade, George EdwardGeorge Edward Wade			[45]
	Les Naïdes	45 Whitechapel Road	1985	Abrahams, IvorIvor Abrahams			[45]
	Spitalfields Column	Middlesex Street	1995	Perry, RichardRichard Perry
	Ram and Magpie	Allen Gardens Playground, Buxton Street	1996	Haughny, PaulaPaula Haughny
	Shaheed Minars Martyr monument Altab Ali	Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane	1999	Shaheed Minar			[45]
	Booth !Statue of Catherine Booth	Mile End Road	2015	Wade !After an original by George Edward Wade	Statue	N/A	Unveiled 2 July 2015.[46]
	Goodman's Fields Horses	Goodman's Fields Piazza	2015	Mackie, HamishHamish Mackie		N/A	Winner of the PMSA's Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Fountains.[47]

References

Bibliography

• Matthews, Peter (2012), London’s Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications 

External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets at Wikimedia Commons

London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Districts	Bethnal Green Blackwall Bow Bow Common Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath Canary Wharf Coldharbour Cubitt Town Globe Town East Smithfield Fish Island Hackney Wick Isle of Dogs Leamouth Limehouse Mile End Millwall Old Ford Poplar Ratcliff St Katharine Docks Shadwell Spitalfields Stepney Tower Hill Wapping Whitechapel
Attractions	Brick Lane Christ Church, Spitalfields Fournier Street Museum of Childhood Museum in Docklands Ragged School Museum St Katharine Docks Tower Bridge Tower of London Traitors' Gate Whitechapel Art Gallery London Olympic Park
Street markets	Petticoat Lane Brick Lane Columbia Road Old Spitalfields Roman Road
Parks and open spaces	Altab Ali Park Bartlett Park Island Gardens Langdon Park Mile End Park Mudchute Tower Hamlets Cemetery Victoria Park
Governance	London borough council Directly elected mayor Civic mayor/speaker of council Constituencies: Bethnal Green and Bow Poplar and Limehouse
Bridges and tunnels	Blackwall Tunnel Greenwich foot tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Tower Bridge
Tube and rail stations	Aldgate East All Saints Bethnal Green Bethnal Green Blackwall Bow Church Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath Canary Wharf (DLR) Canary Wharf (tube) Crossharbour Devons Road East India Heron Quays Island Gardens Langdon Park Limehouse Mile End Mudchute Poplar Shadwell Shadwell South Quay Stepney Green Tower Gateway Tower Hill Wapping railway station West India Quay Westferry Whitechapel
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Public art and memorials in London
Statues	Monarchs Richard I Charles I Charles II James II Anne St Paul's Westminster George III George IV George V George VI Others Alanbrooke Becket Bolívar Brunel Burns Cambridge Canning Chaplin Churchill Clive Cook Cromwell Derby Devonshire Disraeli Frere Freud Gagarin Gandhi Greathead Haig Havelock Herbert Holmes Irving Jenner Kitchener Lawson Lincoln Lloyd George Mandela Moore Montgomery Mountbatten Myddelton Napier Newman Nightingale Orwell Outram Palmerston Peel Raikes Reynolds Roberts San Martín Shakespeare Slim Smuts Trajan Wallenberg Washington Wellington City Hyde Park Corner Wesley St Paul's Shoreditch Westminster White Winehouse Wolseley
Memorials	7 July Memorial Albert Memorial Queen Alexandra Memorial Anti-Air War Memorial Bali Bombings Memorial Bazalgette Memorial Bolan's Rock Shrine Breathing Bromhead Memorial Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial Edith Cavell Memorial Cheylesmore Memorial Agatha Christie Memorial Donne Memorial Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross (Charing Cross) Faraday Memorial George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial Golden Boy of Pye Corner Grace Gates Memorial to the Great Exhibition Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice Hogg Memorial Holocaust Memorial Kennedy Memorial Kindertransport – The Arrival Lister Memorial The Monument National Firefighters Memorial National Police Memorial Nelson's Column Pankhurst Memorial Queen Elizabeth Gate Suffragette Memorial Victoria Memorial Twelve Responses to Tragedy ("Yalta Memorial") Wellington Arch Wellington Monument Whittington Stone A Conversation with Oscar Wilde Duke of York Column
War memorials	Pre-WWI Animals in War Crimean War Gurkhas (1816–) Marble Arch New Zealand Campaign (1863–64) Royal Marines (1899–) Siege of Cádiz Westminster School WWI WWII Australia Baltic Exchange Battle of Britain Belgium Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red Bromley Canada Cavalry The Cenotaph Chindits Chingford Chipping Barnet Civil Service Rifles Cockfosters Croydon La Délivrance Enfield Town (3 memorials) Finchley Flanders Fields Memorial Garden Fulham Golders Green Great Eastern Railway Great Western Railway Guards Division Hampton Wick Hendon Hornsey Imperial Camel Corps Islington London and North Western Railway London Troops Machine Gun Corps Memorial Gates Merchant Navy Monken Hadley New Barnet New Zealand Paddington Poland Poplar Rainham Royal Air Force Rifle Brigade RAF Bomber Command Royal Artillery Royal Fusiliers Royal Naval Division Royal Tank Regiment South Africa (Richmond) South Suburban Gas Company Southwark Submarines Women of World War II Wood Green Post-WWII Korean War
Fountains	Buxton Memorial Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Diana Fountain, Bushy Park Diana Fountain, Green Park Fawcett Memorial The Horses of Helios Guilford Place Matilda Fountain Revolving Torsion Roehampton St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene Shaftesbury Memorial ("Eros") Lady Henry Somerset Memorial Victoria Park
Murals	Brixton Cable Street Poplar Rates Rebellion Sutton twin towns Sutton Heritage Mosaic Topolski Century
Other works	ArcelorMittal Orbit The Arch 1979–1980 The Barbican Muse Big 4 Boadicea and Her Daughters Bull The Burghers of Calais Christ Child Crystal Palace Dinosaurs The Diver Dolphin lamp standards Dragon boundary marks Elfin Oak Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square Fulcrum The Gold Smelters Homage to Leonardo Icarus Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Labyrinth London Noses London Pride The Messenger Millennium Dial The Naked Ladies Nike Old Father Time Paternoster Paternoster Vents Physical Energy Platforms Piece Quantum Cloud The Queen's Beasts Rush of Green St Paul's Cross Single Form (Memorial) A Slice of Reality Slipstream South Bank Lion Still Water Traffic Light Tree Winged Figure World World Cup Sculpture The Young Lovers Three Standing Figures 1947 Talking Statues Works formerly in London
Blue plaques	Camden Kensington and Chelsea City of Westminster
By borough	City of Westminster Hyde Park Kensington Gardens (partly in Kensington and Chelsea) Paddington St Marylebone Architectural sculpture City of London (not a London borough) Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth
Organisations	Art on the Underground London Mural Preservation Society Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
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