2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Imperial Institute lions
SW7, Imperial College Road, Queen's Tower
Of the four lions that used to flank the entrance to the Imperial Institute two remain here, the other two were taken to the Commonwealth...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
The Vintners
EC4, Little Trinity Lane
Believed to be the first public sculpture in London commissioned by a Livery Company. We would have expected the inscriptions (WDR and W...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Tower of London execution site
EC3, Tower Green, Tower of London
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushion look lovely and comfy - just the place to lay a weary head...
10 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Wimpey
EC3, Aldgate High Street
OK, a bit Henry Moore-lite but we like this piece although the setting rather lets it down. But we love the Christmas-decorated pub in t...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
St Andrews - charity girl
EC4, St Andrew Street, St Andrews Church - west door
This building is St Andrews Holborn. There has been a church here since at least 951 AD. It escaped the 1666 Great Fire but was so dilapi...
1 subject commemorated
Sunley and Icarus
EC4, Old Change Court
Ayton also designed the unusual bronze plinth for this location, a garden atop a car-park. Note how the tiled ground rises towards the t...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Vitruvian man
SW1, Belgrave Square
This statue is a representation of 'The Vitruvian Man', a world-renowned drawing by Leonardo da Vinci in about 1487. Wikipedia tells all ...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
Suffragettes sculpture scroll
SW1, Victoria Street, Christchurch Gardens
This is made of fibreglass finished in cold cast bronze, and the scroll form was apparently chosen because it forms an 'S'. Designed by R...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
International Brigade
SE1, Jubilee Gardens
The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lewis’s 1938 poem, The Volunteer. “Yet, Freedom… against the wi...
1 subject commemorated,
6 creators
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