List of public art in Shropshire
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This is a list of public art in the county of Shropshire, England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.
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Bridgnorth
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | Bridgnorth Town Park, Bridgnorth Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
War memorial statue | Bronze |
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Ironbridge
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | High Street, Ironbridge Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
War memorial statue | Bronze | Lifesize | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust | Depicts a soldier in a World War I uniform [1]
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Oswestry
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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120x120px | The Borderland Farmer | Church Street (Red Square), Oswestry Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1990 | Ivor Roberts-Jones | Statue | Bronze | Shropshire Council | Bronze statue of a shepherd with a ram, on a dome of rocks. [2]
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Shrewsbury
Charles Darwin
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Charles Darwin | In front of Shrewsbury Library Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1897 | Horace Montford | Seated statue | Bronze | 2.6m high approx | Grade II listed [3] | Shropshire Council | Shrewsbury Library building used to house Shrewsbury School, which Darwin attended as a boy. [4] | |
Charles Darwin | Outside Shrewsbury School Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Statue | Bronze | Shrewsbury School | ||||||
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The Quantum Leap | Mardol Quay Gardens, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2009 | Pearce & Lal | Sculpture | Stone cast in cement | 12 metres high and 17.5 metres long | Shropshire Council | Unveiled to mark Darwin's bicentenary [5] | ||
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Darwin Gate | Mardol Head, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2004 | Mark Renn & Mick Thacker | Sculpture | cast glass, copper, bronze, stainless steel and stone | Shropshire Council | The starting point of the Darwin Trail [6] | |||
120x120px | Darwin Window | The Darwin Shopping Centre, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Stained glass window | The Darwin Shopping Centre | It depicts an animal scene in a clear nod to Charles Darwin who was born in Shrewsbury [7]
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The Quarry
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial | St Chad's Terrace, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1902 | Caffin of Regent Street | War memorial statue | Stone | Grade II listed [8] | Shropshire Council | |||
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War Memorial | The Quarry, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1922 | George Hubbard and Son, Allan Wyon | War memorial statue | granite and bronze | Grade II listed [9] | Shropshire Council | |||
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Copy of the Farnese Hercules | The Quarry, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Early 18th Century | John Nost | Statue | Lead | 1.6m high approx | Grade II listed [10] | Shropshire Council | It was originally at Condover Hall. It was moved to the entrance of The Quarry in 1851. It was later moved to its current position in 1881 [11] | |
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | Queen Mother Centenary Rose Garden, The Quarry, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2001 | Sculpture | Bronze | Shropshire Council |
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Town Centre
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Clive of India | Shrewsbury Square, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1860 | Carlos Marochetti | Statue | Bronze | 2.75m high approx | Grade II listed [12] | Shropshire Council | [13] | |
120x120px | The Spread Eagle emblem | Barclays, 46 Castle Street, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Sculpture | Barclays | [14] | ||||||
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High Cross | Pride Hill junction with St Mary's Street, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1952 | High Cross | fine white limestone | 5.5m high overall, cross 1.21m high approx | Shropshire Council | On the site of earlier crosses. Was the site of execution [15] | |||
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The Lion | The Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1777 | John Nelson | Lion sculpture | Stone | Grade I listed [16] | The Lion Hotel |
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English Bridge Gardens
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Viscount Hill | Shrewsbury Sixth Form College - English Bridge Gardens, Shrewsbury Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1876 | Matthew Noble | Statue | White marble | 2m high approx | Grade II listed [17] | Shropshire Council | Unveiled in English Bridge Gardens in 1907. [18]
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References
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