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List of public art in the London Borough of Lewisham

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

Blackheath

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coordinates		 DateArtist / designerTypeDesignation Notes
Lion Lawn in front of Holly-Hedge House, Wat Tyler Road

51°28′13″N 0°00′20″W / 51.4703°N 0.0056°W / 51.4703; -0.0056 (Lion)		 Early 19th century? Sculpture Grade II The tablet held by the lion is inscribed NELSON/ CXXII BATTLES.[1]
Jubilee Memorial Drinking Fountain
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria		 Tranquil Vale

51°28′02″N 0°00′24″E / 51.4672°N 0.0066°E / 51.4672; 0.0066 (Jubilee Memorial Drinking Fountain)		 1897? Drinking fountain Grade II [2]

Brockley

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Saint Mary Magdalene St Mary Magdalen's Church, Howson Road c. 1898–1899?Young Bolton Statue in niche N/a [3]
War memorial Outside St Mary Magdalen's Church, junction of Howson Road and Comerford Road

51°27′33″N 0°02′17″W / 51.4593°N 0.0380°W / 51.4593; -0.0380 (St Mary Magdalen's Church War Memorial)		 1917?N/a Calvary cross Grade II Unveiled 7 July 1917.[4]

More images		 Deptford War Memorial Junction of Upper Brockley Road and Lewisham Way

51°28′16″N 0°01′48″W / 51.4710°N 0.0299°W / 51.4710; -0.0299 (Deptford War Memorial)		 1919–1921William Wheatley WagstaffWilliam Roberts War memorial with sculpture Grade II Unveiled 1921 by Major-General Sir Charles Townshend.[5]

Catford

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More images		 Catford Centre Cat Rushey Green

51°26′45″N 0°01′11″W / 51.4458°N 0.0198°W / 51.4458; -0.0198 (Catford Centre Cat)		 1974Owen Luder/Embassy Signs Sculpture [6]
Pensive Girl Catford Town Hall 1992Gerda Rubinstein Sculpture [6]
Water Line Rushey Green 2006Oliver Barratt [7]
Chariot / Blue on Green Catford 2006Oleg Prokofiev [6]
Statue of Henry Cooper Bromley Road 2011–2019Carl Payne Statue The boxer is shown holding his title belts in both hands.[8]
Statue of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah Mountsfield Park 2025Hannah Stewart Statue A life-sized statue of the nine-year-old girl who was the first person to have air pollution recorded as a cause of death.[9]

Crofton Park

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More images		 War memorial St Hilda's Church

51°27′09″N 0°02′22″W / 51.4524°N 0.0394°W / 51.4524; -0.0394 (Crofton Park (St Hilda's) War Memorial)		 1920F. H. Greenway and J. E. NewberryW. Richards (stonemason) Celtic cross Grade II Unveiled 29 May 1920.[10]

Deptford

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More images		 War memorial St Paul's churchyard

51°28′47″N 0°01′33″W / 51.4797°N 0.0258°W / 51.4797; -0.0258 (Deptford (St Paul's) War Memorial)		 1920? Obelisk Grade II Unveiled 24 May 1920 in its original location at the Sandford Estate, Hornshay Street, New Cross. Moved here in 1986.[11]
Gates Sayes Court Park 2010? Ornamental gates The motifs of a mulberry stem, leaf and fruit refer to "Evelyn's Mulberry", a tree said to be from the garden of the diarist and horticulturalist John Evelyn.[12]
Pig sculptures Thames Walk Sculptures

Forest Hill

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Plaque commemorating the gift of Frederick John Horniman Horniman Museum, London Road 1901F. W. PomeroyCharles Harrison Townsend Relief Grade II* [13]
Humanity in the House of Circumstance Horniman Museum, London Road c. 1902Robert Anning BellCharles Harrison Townsend Mosaic Grade II* [14]

More images		 Totem pole Horniman Museum gardens 1985Nathan JacksonN/a Totem pole N/a [15]

Honor Oak

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Bridge Parapets (southern road bridge over railway) Honor Oak

51°26′59″N 0°02′46″W / 51.4497°N 0.0462°W / 51.4497; -0.0462 (Bridge Parapets)		 1960 c. 1960William Mitchell [16]

Lewisham

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Obelisk and drinking fountain Lewisham Hill 1866?N/a Obelisk N/a [17][18]
Prudentia Former Prudential Building, 187–197 High Street 1908F. W. PomeroyPaul Waterhouse Statue in niche Grade II [19]
Lewisham Military Hospital War Memorial University Hospital Lewisham, High Street

51°27′26″N 0°00′54″W / 51.4572°N 0.0151°W / 51.4572; -0.0151 (Lewisham Military Hospital War Memorial)		 after 1918?N/a Memorial stones N/a [20]
Lewisham War Memorial Memorial Gardens, High Street

51°27′13″N 0°00′58″W / 51.4536°N 0.0160°W / 51.4536; -0.0160 (Lewisham War Memorial)		 1921E. A. Stone Obelisk Grade II Unveiled 7 May 1921.[21]
St Stephen's Church War Memorial St Stephen's Church

51°27′51″N 0°00′37″W / 51.4641°N 0.0103°W / 51.4641; -0.0103 (St Stephen's Church War Memorial)		 1921?N/a Hooded Calvary cross Grade II Unveiled 3 September 1921.[22]
The Whisper Bromley Road 1983André WallaceN/a Sculptural group N/a [23]
Blue Well University Hospital Lewisham 2007Chris Marshall Sculpture N/a Alludes to the namesake of Ladywell, a well on the medieval pilgrimage route to Canterbury which was renowned for its healing properties.[24]
Riverside Light Installation Riverside Building, University Hospital Lewisham 2007? Light installation N/a [25]
Memorial to Asquith Gibbes Lewisham Police Station 2019Simon Smith Relief N/a Unveiled 27 June 2019. Gibbes was the founder of the Lewisham Equality Council, in 1981.[26] Inscribed "Race Equality/ Asquith Gibbes MBE/ 4 November 1934 – 16 July 2013"

New Cross

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Statue of Robert Aske Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School

51°28′05″N 0°02′37″W / 51.4681°N 0.0436°W / 51.4681; -0.0436 (Statue of Robert Aske)		 1825William CroggonN/a Statue Grade II [27]
Francis Drake and Robert Blake Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road

51°28′31″N 0°02′16″W / 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)		 1905Henry PooleH. V. Lanchester, James Stewart and E. A. Rickards Architectural sculpture Grade II* [28]
Admiral Lord Nelson and an admiral of 1905 Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road

51°28′31″N 0°02′16″W / 51.4754°N 0.0379°W / 51.4754; -0.0379 (Deptford Old Town Hall)		 1905Henry PooleH. V. Lanchester, James Stewart and E. A. Rickards Architectural sculpture Grade II* [28]
Water and Wine Goldsmiths, University of London 1990Michael KennyN/a Sculpture N/a [29]
Black Door Goldsmiths, University of London Svein MøxvoldN/a Sculpture N/a [30]

Sydenham

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Livesey Hall War Memorial
South Suburban Gas Company		 Perry Hill, Lower Sydenham

51°25′53″N 0°02′14″W / 51.4314°N 0.0372°W / 51.4314; -0.0372 (Livesey Hall War Memorial)		 1920Sydney March War memorial with sculpture Grade II [31]

Telegraph Hill

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Memorial to Olaudah Equiano Telegraph Hill Lower Park 2008Pupils of Edmund Waller Primary School, and the Friends of Telegraph Hill Park Memorial N/a [32]

References

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  1. ↑ Historic England. "Carving on lawn in front of Holly-Hedge House (1194163)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Jubilee Memorial Drinking Fountain (1031857)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Brockley – St Mary Magdalen". Taking Stock: Catholic Churches of England & Wales. Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Crofton Park (St Mary Magdalen) War Memorial (1449916)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Deptford War Memorial (1406592)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 Lewisham Council – Catford public art. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "water line | oliver barratt sculpture". www.oliverbarratt.co.uk.
  8. ↑ Henry Cooper (1934–2011). Art UK. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  9. ↑ Lydall, Ross (4 April 2025). "Statue unveiled of girl whose air pollution death inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez clean air zone". Evening Standard. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  10. ↑ Historic England. "Crofton Park (St Hilda's) War Memorial (1449909)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  11. ↑ Historic England. "Deptford (St Paul's) War Memorial (1449913)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  12. ↑ Sayes Court Park Gates. Art UK. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  13. ↑ Smith, Charlotte Fell (1912). "Horniman, Frederick John" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 304.
  14. ↑ Banerjee, Jacqueline. "The Horniman Museum by Charles Harrison Townsend". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  15. ↑ Other Horniman Sights to See. Horniman Museum & Gardens. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Historic filming in Forest Hill – SE23 Forum | Forest Hill & Honor Oak". www.se23.com.
  17. ↑ Obelisk. Art UK. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  18. ↑ "Lewisham". mdfcta.co.uk. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  19. ↑ Prudentia. Art UK. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  20. ↑ "Lewisham Military Hospital". War Memorials Register. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  21. ↑ Historic England. "Lewisham War Memorial, Memorial Gardens (1435882)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  22. ↑ Historic England. "St Stephen's Church War Memorial, Lewisham (1437645)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  23. ↑ The Whisper. Art UK. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  24. ↑ Blue Well. Art UK. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  25. ↑ Riverside Light Installation. Art UK. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  26. ↑ Simon Smith – Back the Bid!. Lewisham Council. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  27. ↑ Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). Macmillan. pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
  28. 1 2 Curl, James Stevens (3 December 2023). "Rickards remembered". The Critic. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  29. ↑ Water and Wine. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  30. ↑ Black Door. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  31. ↑ "South Suburban Gas Company". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  32. ↑ Patient, Alan. "Olaudah Equiano – SE14". London Remembers. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
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