This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Eastcote
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Eastcote War Memorial | Memorial Gardens, Field End Road | 1921 | Louis Frederick Roslyn and Edmund John Shelmerdine | Memorial cross | — | Unveiled 12 June 1921.[1][2] | |
Coat of arms of Middlesex | East façade of Eastcote Library, Field End Road 51°34′50″N 0°24′01″W / 51.5805°N 0.4003°W |
1959 | Municipal works team of Middlesex County Council |
Harefield
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Harefield War Memorial | The Green 51°36′15″N 0°28′49″W / 51.6041°N 0.4803°W |
1921 | Frederick Herbert Mansford | Obelisk | Grade II | [3] |
Making Space | Heart Science Centre, Magdi Yacoub Institute | 2004 | Antony Gormley | Sculpture | — | [4] | |
Prometheus Magdi Yacoub |
Harefield Hospital 51°36′25″N 0°28′58″W / 51.6069°N 0.4828°W |
2008 | Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis[5] | Statue | — | Unveiled 21 November 2008 by Gordon Brown.[6] | |
Harefield village green main (globe) sign | The Green (public green) partly facing the south end of the large hospital site 51°36′11″N 0°29′02″W / 51.603°N 0.484°W |
2008 | Circular (band) sign and finial-style statue | — | Hare as in the name of the place. Australia and Britain due to the injured treated at the large hospital in World War I. |
Harmondsworth
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial | Harmondsworth Moor 51°29′24″N 0°29′21″W / 51.4901°N 0.4893°W |
1995 | Memorial stone with plaque | [7] | |||
The Hurdler | Forecourt of the Lodge, Harmondsworth Lane | 1984 | Diana Thomson | Sculpture | — | Commissioned by APC International and inspired by the 1984 Summer Olympics, the sculpture later became the basis for the company's logo.[8] |
Heathrow Airport
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) baseline: the northern of its two commemorative cannons | West of where Nene Road meets Northern Perimeter Road, being at one of the places known as "King's Arbour" (a notably large tree). 51°28′47″N 0°27′01″W / 51.47980°N 0.4502°W |
1791 | William Mudge | Grade II | The corresponding south cannon is next to LEH School, Hampton.[9] | ||
Alcock and Brown | Newall Road, on north side of the airport 51°28′50″N 0°26′36″W / 51.48053°N 0.4433°W |
1954 | William McMillan | Sculptural group | — | [10] | |
Custom Shed Screen | Custom House, Nene Road | 1967 | Robert Adams | Screens | — | [8] | |
Speedbird motifs | Hatton Cross tube station 51°27′59.83″N 0°25′24″W / 51.4666194°N 0.42333°W |
1975 | After Theyre Lee-Elliott | Mosaics | — | [11][12] | |
Atlas | Outside the Compass Centre, Northern Perimeter Road West | 1993 | c.Hylton Stockwell | Sculpture | — | [13] | |
Moving World (Night & Day) | Terminal 5 51°28′24″N 0°29′22″W / 51.47322°N 0.48938°W |
2008 | Langlands & Bell | Pair of illuminated neon and steel walls | — | [14] | |
Animated Crest | Terminal 5 51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W |
2008 | Christopher Pearson | — | [15] | ||
Oak Seasons | Terminal 5 51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W |
2008 | Christopher Pearson | — | [15] | ||
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Emirates A380 sculpture | At north access to/from Terminals 2 & 3 access tunnel 51°28′50″N 0°27′11″W / 51.48061°N 0.4530°W |
2008 | Penwal | — | [16] | |
Cloud | Terminal 5 51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W |
2008 | Troika | Sculpture | — | [15] | |
All the Time in the World | Terminal 5 51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W |
2008 | Troika | — | [15] | ||
Yan Shu (swan letter) | Terminal 5 51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W |
2008 | UnitedVisualArtists | Sculpture | — | [17] | |
Sculpture marking the 150th anniversary of the London Underground | Ticket hall at Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 tube station 51°28′16.67″N 0°27′8.64″W / 51.4712972°N 0.4524000°W |
2013 | Sculpture | — | [18] | ||
Turkish Airlines Globe | Near main access tunnel, on central roundabout (between Terminals 2 & 3) 51°28′19″N 0°27′11″W / 51.47189°N 0.4531°W |
2013 | Sculpture | — | [19] | ||
London Taxi | Terminal 2 51°28′10.62″N 0°27′4.87″W / 51.4696167°N 0.4513528°W |
2014 | Benedict Radcliffe | Sculpture | — | [20] | |
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Slipstream | Terminal 2 51°28′10.8″N 0°26′58.8″W / 51.469667°N 0.449667°W |
2014 | Richard Wilson | Sculpture | — | [21] |
Hayes
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Hayes War Memorial | Church Road 51°31′04″N 0°25′09″W / 51.51766°N 0.419146°W |
Post-World War II | ? | Wooden Calvary on raised stone plinth with brick surrounding walls and carved inscriptions | — | [22] | |
Skylark | Lake Farm Country Park 51°30′42″N 0°25′31″W / 51.51166°N 0.425146°W |
2002 | c.Ben Dearnley | Sculpture | — | ||
Tiling | Underpass at Hayes and Harlington railway station | 2003 | Lubna Chowdhary | — | [23] | ||
The Converse Wall of Clash | Powerhouse building, Blyth Road 51°30′15.96″N 0°25′34.5″W / 51.5044333°N 0.426250°W |
2014 | Remi Rough and System (Agents of Change) | — | [24] | ||
Night scene | Norman Leddy Memorial Gardens 51°31′14″N 0°25′24″W / 51.52046°N 0.423206°W |
Tom "Carver" Harvey | Tree sculpture | — | [25] | ||
Man looking for his dog | Barra Hall Park 51°31′05″N 0°25′24″W / 51.51816°N 0.423416°W |
Tom "Carver" Harvey | Tree sculpture | — | [25] |
Art installation
editOn Sunday 5 August 2012, Jeremy Deller's art installation Sacrilege (an inflatable life-size model of Stonehenge) was installed in Barra Hall Park from 10.30am to 6pm. An estimated 1,400 people visited on the day.[26]
Northwood
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Northwood War Memorial | Green Lane, near Northwood tube station 51°36′42″N 0°25′30″W / 51.6116°N 0.4250°W |
1921 | William Aumonier Jr. | F. D. Bedford | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 13 February 1921.[27] |
Green Man and town sign | Green Lane | 2011 | William Lee | — | Sculptures | — | [28] |
Ruislip
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Ruislip War Memorial | Eastcote Road, opposite St Martin's Church 51°34′39″N 0°25′38″W / 51.5775°N 0.4272°W |
1921? | Local craftsmen | Memorial cross | — | [29] |
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Polish Air Force Memorial Polish Air Force in Great Britain |
South Ruislip 51°32′56″N 0°24′01″W / 51.5488°N 0.4002°W |
2 November 1948 | Mieczysław Lubelski | War memorial with sculpture | Grade II* | [30] |
Cast concrete abstract frieze | Ticket hall of South Ruislip station | 1961 | c.Henry Haig | Frieze | — | [31] |
Stockley Park
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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In the Garden | Outside 3 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park | 1983 | Peter Randall-Page | Arup Associates; Charles Funke (landscape architect) | Sculpture | — | Installed here in 1992; the work was previously untitled.[32] | |
Synchronised Sculpture | Lake in front of the Arena Building, Bennetsfield Road, Stockley Park | 1988 | Kevin Atherton | — | Sculpture | — | Eight bronze legs cast from Sarah Northey, the British Synchronised Swimmer of the Year in 1987.[32] | |
Soaring American Eagle | Outside 4 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park | 1990 | c.? | Peter Foggo Associates | Sculpture | — | Commissioned by Electronic Data Systems.[32] | |
Lot's Wife | Outside 1 Furzeground Way, Stockley Park | 1990 | Robin Caiger-Smith | Geoffrey Darke & Associates | Sculpture | — | Dow Chemicals commissioned the work, which alludes to the metamorphosis whereby brine is produced by mining salt deposits, as well as to Dow as a "forward-looking company".[33] | |
Osirisisis | Outside 5 Longwalk Road, Stockley Park | 1991 | Stephen Cox | Foster Associates | Sculpture | — | [34] | |
Tetra Trellis | Outside 1 Longwalk Road, Stockley Park | 1993 | William Pye | Arup Associates | Sculpture | — | Commissioned by Tetra Pak.[34] | |
Challenge | Stockley Park | 1995 | Wendy Taylor | Sculpture | — | [35] |
Uxbridge
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Girder from Chepstow Railway Bridge | Brunel University | 1852 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Girder | — | ||
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Uxbridge War Memorial | The Old Graveyard, Windsor Street 51°32′40″N 0°28′51″W / 51.5445°N 0.4808°W |
1924 | Adrian Jones | War memorial with sculpture | — | Unveiled 11 November 1924.[36] |
Winged wheels | Entrance to Uxbridge tube station 51°32′46″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5461°N 0.4789°W |
1934 | Joseph Armitage | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | [37] | |
Coats of arms of the Basset family, of Middlesex and of Buckinghamshire | Exit from Uxbridge tube station 51°32′46″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5462°N 0.4788°W |
1934 | Ervin Bossányi | Stained glass | Grade II | [38] | |
Saint Andrew's Gate | Hillingdon Road roundabout 51°32′38″N 0°28′22″W / 51.5439°N 0.4729°W |
1957 | [39] | ||||
Shoreditch College Golden Jubilee 1969 | Brunel University | 1969 | Attributed to Philip John Whitten | Relief | — | [40] | |
Anticipation Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II |
Uxbridge town centre, outside The Chimes 51°32′45″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5459°N 0.4789°W |
25 June 2002 | Anita Lafford | — | [41] | ||
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Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Brunel University 51°31′59″N 0°28′30″W / 51.53307°N 0.47497°W |
6 July 2006 | Anthony Stones | Statue | — | [42] |
Connect | Brunel University | 2016 | Maria Celina Reyes Gallo, Huda Alnabhan, Abdurrahman Ozdemir and Yeqing Zheng | Sculptural group | — | [43] | |
Hawker Hurricane | Outside Battle of Britain Bunker Museum, RAF Uxbridge 51°32′26″N 0°27′52″W / 51.54051°N 0.464428°W |
Gate guardian | [44] | ||||
Supermarine Spitfire | Outside Battle of Britain Bunker Museum, RAF Uxbridge 51°32′25″N 0°27′52″W / 51.54031°N 0.464568°W |
Gate guardian | [44] | ||||
Four Concrete Forms with White | Brunel University | Justin Knowles | Sculpture | — | Given by Arts Council England.[45] |
West Drayton
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Yiewsley and West Drayton War Memorial | Harmondsworth Road, outside the entrance to West Drayton Cemetery 51°30′00″N 0°28′05″W / 51.49995°N 0.46798°W |
After 1918 | ? | — | War memorial | — | [46] |
Yiewsley
editImage | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Yiewsley War memorial | St Matthew's Church, Yiewsley | 1921 | War memorial | — | Unveiled on 28 May 1921 by Lady Delia Peel | |||
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Artorius | Outside Virtus London 6, Ironbridge Road North, Prologis Park West London, Yiewsley 51°30′36″N 0°27′09″W / 51.5101°N 0.4524°W |
1990 | John Raimondi | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Sculpture | — | [47] |
References
edit- ^ "Eastcote Cross". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ [Eastcote] War Memorial. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ [Harefield] War Memorial. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Making Space. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Longhurst, Chris (26 November 2008). "Greek god statue pays tribute to pioneer of heart surgery". Uxbridge Gazette. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Kirk, Tristan (21 November 2008). "Gordon Brown unveils statue for Sir Magdi Yacoub". Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ Harmondsworth Moor War Memorial. London Borough of Hillingdon. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ a b Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 81.
- ^ Historic England. "Monument at north-western end of General Roy's survey base (1119717)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Gallop, Alan (2005). Time Flies: Heathrow At 60. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 1-85310-259-8.
- ^ 111. The platform tiles at Hatton Cross
- ^ Historic England. "HATTON CROSS STATION (1311086)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^ Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 85.
- ^ "Heathrow Terminal 5". Contemporary Art Society. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ a b c d Art commissions at Heathrow Terminal Five. de zeen magazine. 22 January 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ "Emirates Unveils London Newest Landmark". Emirates (airline). Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ HSBC unveils light sculpture at Heathrow T5. U.K. Airport News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ "Dsc02187". Flickr. 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Turkish Airlines Globe". JCDecaux. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ "Emerging artist's London Taxi sculpture unveiled at Terminal 2". Heathrow Media Centre. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "Richard Wilson: my giant Heathrow sculpture started in a vat of margarine". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ Hayes War Memorial (PDF). London Borough of Hillingdon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ "Tile Gazetteer – London Hillingdon – TACS".
- ^ "Video: Old Vinyl Factory building transformed in stunning street art takeover". 5 March 2014.
- ^ a b "Brightening up your green spaces" (PDF). Hillingdon People, p. 12. London Borough of Hillingdon. May–June 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ Griffith, Jack (8 August 2012). "Monument as bouncy castle". Uxbridge Gazette. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Northwood". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Green Man and Town Sign. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "Ruislip". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Polish War Memorial. London Borough of Ealing. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 93.
- ^ a b c Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 101.
- ^ Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 98.
- ^ a b Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 99.
- ^ "About". Wendy Taylor. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Uxbridge – WW1 and WW2 figure". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ "Concrete Cathedrals – Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground Stations". The Beauty of Transport (Wordpress). 5 February 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "The Stained Glass at Uxbridge". 150 Great Things About the Underground. 23 June 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ St. Andrew's Gate Photo. Flickr. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- ^ Shoreditch College Golden Jubilee 1969. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ Griffith, Jack (15 June 2012). "Uxbridge marks Jubilee sculpture anniversary". Uxbridge Gazette. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ New statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel to be unveiled at Brunel University. Brunel University. 28 June 2006. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ Connect. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ a b The Battle of Britain Bunker – Deep Below RAF Uxbridge. Londoneer. 9 September 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- ^ Four Concrete Forms with White. Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ Urban District of Yiewsley and West Drayton Memorial outside West Drayton Cemetery. Hillingdon Council. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Lloyd, Potkin & Thackara 2011, p. 100.
Bibliography
edit- Lloyd, Fran; Potkin, Helen; Thackara, Davina (2011). Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London. Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
External links
edit- Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Hillingdon at Wikimedia Commons