List of public art in Warwickshire
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This is a list of public art in the Warwickshire county of 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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Atherstone
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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120x120px | Atherstone Ball Game | The Co-op, Station Street, Atherstone Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Michael Disley | Sculpture | Stone | North Warwickshire Borough Council | Based on the Shrovetide Ball Game
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Leamington Spa
The Parade
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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120x120px | Queen Victoria | Town Hall, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1901 | Albert Toft | Statue | Sicilian marble on red Aberdeen granite pedestal | 3 metres high statue on a 4 metres high pedestal | Grade II listed [1] | Warwick District Council and Royal Leamington Spa Town Council | Is a similar statue to this in Worcester at the Shire Hall |
War Memorial | Parade, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1922 | Albert Toft | War memorial Statue | Bronze | Grade II listed [2] | Warwick District Council and Royal Leamington Spa Town Council | |||
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Firemen and a Manual Pump | RA Bennett & Partners, Euston Place, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1965 | Sculpture | Metal, painted | 100cm high x 120cm wide approx. | Warwick District Council and Royal Leamington Spa Town Council | Two figures, wearing helmets and fireman's uniforms, are either side of a cart. Moved to Euston Place in 1965. It was the premises on Locke and England. The emblem was previously at 166 Parade when it was 33 Lower Parade (the firm moved there in 1875). [3]
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Bath Street
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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120x120px | Blue waves | Outside the Jug & Jester – Bath Street, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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120x120px | The Jug & Jester | Jug & Jester – Bath Street, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2010 | Sculpture | Bronze | JD Wetherspoon | The Jug & Jester opened in November 2010 [4]
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Jephson Gardens
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Dr Henry Jephson | Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1848 | Peter Hollins | Statue | Marble | Grade II listed [5] | Warwick District Council and Royal Leamington Spa Town Council | ||
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Elephant Circle | Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1988 | Nicholas Dimbleby | Sculpture | Bronze | Warwick District Council and Royal Leamington Spa Town Council | Originally outside the Royal Priors Shopping Centre, it was moved to Jephson Gardens in 2008 [6]
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Nuneaton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) | Newdegate Street, Nuneaton Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1986 | John Letts | Statue | Bronze | Statue: 130cm high x 120cm wide x 120cm deep. Plinth: 120cm high x 120cm wide x 120cm deep | Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council | [7] | |
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Boer War Memorial | Riversley Park, Nuneaton Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2008 | Alan Beattie Herriot | Statue | Bronze | Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council | The original memorial was unveiled in 1905 and was sculpted by Adolphus E L Rost. That was stolen in 2006. This copy was made in 2008 [8]
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Rugby
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Rupert Brooke | Jubilee Gardens, Rugby Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1988 | Ivor Roberts-Jones | Statue | Bronze | Rugby Borough Council | Poet born in Rugby [9] | ||
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William Webb Ellis | Rugby School, Rugby Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1997 | Graham Ibbeson | Statue | Bronze | 229cm high | Rugby School | The inventor of Rugby football in 1823 [10]
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Market Place
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The American Fountain | Junction of Wood Street and Rother Street, Market Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1887 | Jethro Cossins & Robert Bridgeman & Sons of Lichfield | Drinking Fountain | Stone | Grade II* listed [11] | Stratford on Avon District Council | Donated to the people of Stratford by George W. Childs (when there was no suitable memorial to Shakespeare in England at the time) [12]
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Bancroft Gardens
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Gower Memorial | Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1876 | Ronald Gower | Statue | Bronze | Grade II* listed [13] | Stratford on Avon District Council | Statue of William Shakespeare surrounded by characters from his plays. Unveiled in 1888. [14] It was outside the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until it burned down in 1926. It was moved to its present site in 1933. | |
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William Shakespeare | Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2016 | Lawrence Holofcener | Statue | Bronze | Stratford on Avon District Council | The American artist gave the statue to the town to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death [15] | ||
120x120px | Hermaphroditus or Youth at the Stream | Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1844 | John Henry Foley | Statue | Bronze | Stratford on Avon District Council | Cast in bronze by J.A. Hatfield in 1851 for the Great Exhibition. Alfred Bullard donated it to Bancroft Gardens in 1932. [16] | ||
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Country Artists Fountain | Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1996 | Christine Lee | Fountain | Marble and Stainless Steel | 450cm high x 250cm wide x 250cm deep | Stratford on Avon District Council | Commemorates the 800th anniversary of the granting of market rights to the town of Stratford-upon-Avon by Richard I. [17]
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Henley Street
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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120x120px | The Stratford Jester | Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1994 | James Walter Butler | Statue | Bronze | Stratford on Avon District Council | The character of the jester or fool appears in many of Shakespeare's plays [18] | ||
120x120px | Untitled Abstract Relief | The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1964 | Douglas Wain Hobson | Relief | Bronze | 150cm high x 200cm wide x 35cm deep approx. | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust | The sculptor intended to represent Shakespeare's greatness. [19] | |
120x120px | Eagle | The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1964 | Sculpture | Bronze | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |
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Warwick
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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120x120px | Guy and the Boar | Traffic island, Coventry Road, Warwick Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1964 | Keith Godwin | Statue | Cast concrete, set on a stone plinth and concrete base | Warwick District Council | Depicts Guy of Warwick. Commissioned by the Annol Development Company and presented to Warwick Council.[20] | ||
Randolph Turpin | Market Place, Warwick Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2001 | Carl Payne | Statue | Bronze | Warwick District Council | ||||
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The Herons and Fishes | Warwickshire County Council, Market Place, Warwick Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
2000 | Rachel Higgins | Sculpture | Steel | Warwick District Council | Millennium pond sculpture. It reflects the rich wildlife of Warwickshire
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References
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