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
Juggling figure
N1, Hoxton Market
Juggling figure To commemorate the traditions of Theatre and Music Hall in Hoxton and Shoreditch. Funded by Dalston City Challenge and Lo...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
International Memorial to Seafarers
SE1, Albert Embankment, International Maritime Organisation
{On a plaque to the left of the sculpture (in English and also in 2 non-Latin scripts):} International Memorial to Seafarers Unveiled b...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Breathing sculpture
W1, Langham Street
This memorial has its own webpage: Broadcasting House memorial. The 10 metre high inverted glass spire (or plastic beaker) is lit at nig...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Zimbabwe House - Epstein
WC2, Strand, 429
Don’t believe Wikipedia when it says that "the mutilated condition of many of the sculptures has nothing to do with prudish censorship". ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Golden Boy & Great Fire of London
EC1, Giltspur Street
The sign of the magpie was once at this corner and it was from this bird that this corner became known as Pie Corner. The figure is of oa...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
city boundary dragons
EC4, Victoria Embankment
A second 1849 cast-iron heraldic dragon rears up on the other side of the busy road. The Pity of London has a short video showing the ins...
1 subject commemorated,
4 creators
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