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Brown Dog affair

The Cenotaph

Civil Service Rifles War Memorial

Great Western Railway War Memorial

London and North Western Railway War Memorial

Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

Royal Artillery Memorial

Royal Naval Division War Memorial

Tower Hill Memorial

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65

National Police Memorial (United Kingdom)

Richard Coeur de Lion (statue)

Statue of James II, Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square

List of public art in the City of Westminster

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Public Sculpture of Britain

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• Cavanagh, Terry (2007), Public Sculpture of South London, Public Sculpture of Britain, vol. 10, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

  Covers the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth.

• Cavanagh, Terry (2022), Public Sculpture of Kensington and Chelsea with Westminster South-West, Public Sculpture of Britain, vol. 22, Watford: PSSA Publishing

• Lloyd, Fran; Potkin, Helen; Thackara, Davina (2011), Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

  Covers the boroughs of Croydon, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Sutton.

• Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003), Public Sculpture of the City of London, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

• Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

  Covers part of the City of Westminster, excluding, among other areas, the former boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone. Also excludes architectural sculpture, which is to be covered in a future volume.

The Buildings of England

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Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1997), London: City of London, The Buildings of England, vol. 1, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1983), London: South, The Buildings of England, vol. 2, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1991), London: North West, The Buildings of England, vol. 3, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002), London: North, The Buildings of England, vol. 4, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005), London: East, The Buildings of England, vol. 5, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003), London: Westminster, The Buildings of England, vol. 6, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Other general reference works

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Gomme, George Laurence (1910), Return of Outdoor Memorials in London: Other Than Statues on the Exterior of Buildings, Memorials in the Nature of Tombstones, Memorial Buildings and Memorial Trees, London: London County Council: Full text online. Brief descriptions useful for older public art but they may have been moved since 1910.

Borenius, Tancred; Hoppé, E. O. (1926), Forty London Statues and Public Monuments, London: Methuen

Cooper, Charles Samuel (1928), The Outdoor Monuments of London: Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials, The Homeland Association

Sitwell, Osbert (1928), The People's Album of London Statues, London: Duckworth

Baker, Margaret (1968), Discovering London: Statues and Monuments, Shire Publications

Thompson, Godfrey (1971), London's Statues, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

White, Paul William (1971), On Public View: A Selection of London's Open-Air Sculpture, Hutchinson

Gleichen, Lord Edward (1973), London's Open-Air Statuary, London: Chivers

Byron, Arthur (1981), London Statues: A Guide to London's Outdoor Statues and Sculpture, London: Constable

Blackwood, John (1989), London's Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues, London and Oxford: Savoy Press

Blundell, Joe Whitlock; Hudson, Roger (1998), The Immortals: London's Finest Statues, London: Folio Society

Pearson, Lynn (2006), Public Art Since 1950, Princes Risborough: Shire Publications

Asprey, Ronald; Bullus, Claire (2009), The Statues of London, London and New York: Merrell

Hibbert, Christopher; Keay, John; Keay, Julia; Weinreb, Ben (2011), The London Encyclopaedia, London: Macmillan

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

Kershman, Andrew (2013), London’s Monuments, London: Metro Publications

Ovenden, Mark (2013), London Underground by Design, London: Penguin

Pearson, Lynn (2013), Postwar murals database, Academia.edu

Pearson, Lynn (2016), Public Art 1945–95, Introductions to Heritage Assets, Historic England: See especially the bibliography.

Other books and articles

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"Monuments on the Move", 3rd Dimension, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, 3 May 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014 [on Charles Bacon's equestrian statue of Prince Albert, Holborn Circus]

Black, Jonathan (December 2003), ""The Real Thing": Eric Kennington's 24th Infantry Division Memorial in Battersea Park, London (1921–24)", The Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, no. 1209, pp. 854–859, JSTOR 20073318

Black, Jonathan (2013), "Making the Rock of Gibraltar: Ivor Roberts-Jones and the Sir Winston Churchill Commission for Parliament Square (1970–73)", in Black, Jonathan; Ayres, Sara (eds.), Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones, London: Philip Wilson Publishers, pp. 63–83

Brooks, Chris, ed. (2000), The Albert Memorial: The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation, London and New Haven: Yale University Press

Brown, Stephanie (2007), G. F. Watts, Physical Energy, Sculpture and Site, Studies in the Art of George Frederic Watts, Compton: Watts Gallery

Chandler, Andrew (1999), Christian Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: Ten Statues on the West Front of Westminster Abbey, London: Dean and Chapter of Westminster

Colin-Russ, Valerie (2012), London Pride: The 10,000 Lions of London, London: Frances Lincoln

Cooke, Steven (July 2000), "Negotiating memory and identity: the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London", Journal of historical geography, 26 (3), Academic Press: 449–65, doi:10.1006/jhge.2000.0238

Crellin, Sarah (26 March 2016), "Missing in Action: Charles Wheeler's Post-War Architectural Sculpture", 3rd Dimension, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, retrieved 21 June 2016

Darby, Elisabeth (2003), "The Memorial to the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations and a Missing Statue of Queen Victoria", Sculpture Journal (9): 72–89 (Memorial to the Great Exhibition)

Darley, Gillian (6 February 2015), "Comings and goings: Paolozzi and public art", Apollo, retrieved 6 February 2015 [Eduardo Paolozzi's Tottenham Court Road murals, Meridian by Barbara Hepworth and murals by Gordon Cullan and Dorothy Annan]

Dorment, Richard (January 1980), "Alfred Gilbert's Memorial to Queen Alexandra", The Burlington Magazine, 122 (922): 47–54

Dresser, Madge (1 October 2007), "Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London", History Workshop Journal, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 162–199, doi:10.1093/hwj/dbm032, JSTOR 25472939

Echlin, Dominic (2000), "The Garden at St James's Church, Piccadilly: 'Poignant Memorial from the first days of post-war reconstruction'", The London Gardener, 6: 42–50 [Viscount Southwood Memorial]

Edwards, Jason (2006), "Allegorizing love in fin de siècle London: Eros and 'Piccadilly' Aestheticism, c. 1886–93", Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 93–132

Eyres, Patrick (2002), "The Archer: Eric Aumonier's icon of urban travel and of the pre- and post-war London Underground", Sculpture Journal (8): 36–53

Goodwin, Katey (21 October 2021), Revealing the facts and figures of London's statues and monuments, Art UK, retrieved 24 October 2021

Greenberg, Allan (March 1989), "Lutyens's Cenotaph", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 48 (1): 5–23, JSTOR 990403

Griffin, Christopher; Mundy, Jennifer, eds. (2015), Henry Moore: Sculptural Process and Public Identity, Tate, retrieved 14 February 2016

Hobhouse, Hermione, ed. (1991), "Architectural sculpture and decorative treatment", County Hall, Survey of London, vol. 17, London: Guild & School of Handicraft, pp. 57–69, retrieved 10 February 2015

Jenkins, David Fraser (2010), "The Meeting Place by Paul Day: a very public commission at St Pancras Station, 2006/9", Sculpture Journal, 19 (1): 91–101

Jolivette, Catherine (December 2008), "London pride: 1951 and figurative sculpture at the South Bank Exhibition", Sculpture Journal, 17 (2): 23–36

Kerley, Paul (22 January 2016), "The bright red work of art (and 40 others) now protected", BBC News Magazine, BBC, retrieved 14 February 2016

Lapp, Axel (1998), "The Freedom of Sculpture: The Sculpture of Freedom – The international sculpture competition for a monument to the unknown political prisoner, London 1951–3", Sculpture Journal (2): 113–23

Mace, Rodney (2005), Trafalgar Square: Emblem of Empire, London: Lawrence and Wishart

Malvern, Sue (2004), ""For King and Country": Frampton's Edith Cavell (1915–20) and the writing of gender in memorials to the Great War", in Getsey, David J. (ed.), Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c. 1880–1930, British Art & Visual Culture Since 1750: New Readings, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 219–44 (Edith Cavell Memorial)

Meades, Jonathan (25 October 2012), "At Hyde Park Corner", London Review of Books, retrieved 7 February 2015 (RAF Bomber Command Memorial)

Munsell, F. Darrell (1991), The Victorian Controversy Surrounding the Wellington War Memorial: The Archduke of Hyde Park Corner, Studies in British History, Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press (Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot)

Pereira, Dawn (2012), "William Mitchell and the London County Council: the evolution of a classless form of public art", Sculpture Journal, 21 (1): 57–70

Purdon, James (May 2013), "Unreal City", Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 178 (609): 60–5 [Interwar architectural sculpture in London: the Bank of England, Broadcasting House, Thames House and Zimbabwe House]

Siddall, Ruth; Clements, Di (January 2013), Urban Geology: The War Memorials at Hyde Park Corner and Green Park (PDF), retrieved 28 November 2014

Smith, Nicola (1999), "The Ludgate Statues", Sculpture Journal (3): 14–26

Stevens, Quentin; Sumartojo, Shanti (2015), "Memorial planning in London", Journal of Urban Design, 20 (5): 615–635, doi:10.1080/13574809.2015.1071655

Ward-Jackson, Philip, Royal Air Force Memorial (PDF), Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, retrieved 5 February 2015 [This is identical to Ward-Jackson 2011, pp. 357–9]

Watkins, Nicholas (2008), A Kick in the Teeth. The equestrian monument to ‘Field Marshal Earl Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France 1915–1918’ by Alfred Hardiman (PDF), Leeds: Henry Moore Institute

Welsh, Jack (4 February 2015), A Permanent Fixture? The Paolozzi Mosaics at Tottenham Court Road, retrieved 7 February 2015

"The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions", Municipal Dreams, 21 July 2015, retrieved 14 February 2016

"The LCC and the Arts II: the 'Patronage of the Arts' Scheme", Municipal Dreams, 28 July 2015, retrieved 14 February 2016

The Burlington Magazine editorials

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Websites

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• Art@Site
• Art on the Underground at LysterPhoto
• C20 Society Murals Campaign (Twentieth Century Society)
• Commissions (London School of Mosaic)
• Exploring East London  
• Invader-Spotter (in French)
• London Art News (ianVisits)
• London Gardens Online
• London Mural Preservation Society
• London projects (Art in the Open)
• London Remembers, "aiming to capture all memorials in London"
• London's best new public art (Time Out)
• London's Statues and Monuments (English Heritage)
• London Stone and Metal  
• Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association Drinking Fountains
• National Heritage List for England (Historic England)
• Ornamental Passions  
• Outdoor artwork in London on Art UK
  • Lists of London
• Permanent artwork / Permanent projects (Art on the Underground)
• Permanent commissions (Tideway)
• Public Art Commissions (Contemporary Art Society)
• Public art list of major works in the borough (Camden London Borough Council)
• Public Art Online Bibliography (up to c. 2008)
• Public Art (Sculpture) 1945–85: Designation, Exhibition and Guidance (Historic England)
• Regeneration and the Arts in London Docklands - archived copy (London Docklands Development Corporation)
• Sculpture in London described on Bob Speel's website  
• Sculpture in the borough (Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council)
• The Line, "London's first dedicated modern and contemporary art walk"
• Tile Gazetteer – London (Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society)
• UK Sporting Statue Database (The Sporting Statues Project)
• Walks of Art by Frances Barry
• War Memorials Archive (Imperial War Museums)
• War Memorials Online (War Memorials Trust)
• Westminster City Council conservation area audits

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