# List of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Map of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

## Belgravia

    See the list of public art in Belgravia.

## Brompton

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
| More images | Statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman | Brompton Oratory | 1895 | Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud | Statue under canopy | Campanella marble and Portland stone | Grade II | Unveiled 15 June 1896. Architects: G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner. |

## Chelsea

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
| More images | Statue of Charles II | Royal Hospital, Figure Court 51°29′14″N 0°09′28″W﻿ / ﻿51.4871°N 0.1577°W﻿ / 51.4871; -0.1577﻿ (Charles II) | 1676 | Grinling Gibbons | Statue | Gilt bronze | Grade I | Commissioned by the royal servant Tobias Rustat, presented to the King in 1682 and installed in the Royal Hospital in 1692. Gilding removed 1782 and restored 2002. |
| | Millar Obelisk | King's Road, Dovehouse Green | 1751 | ? | Obelisk | | — | |
| | Chillianwallah Memorial | Royal Hospital, South Grounds | 1853 | Charles Robert Cockerell | Obelisk | | Grade II | |
| | Two women, a warrior over a chariot and horses, two eagles and two caryatids | The Pheasantry, King's Road | 1881 | Amédée Joubert | Architectural sculptures | | Grade II | |
| | Herbert Stewart Memorial Fountain | Hans Place | late 19th century | Joseph Whitehead and Joseph Edgar Boehm (medallion) | Drinking fountain with relief sculpture | | — | Erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Stewart lived nearby at 40 Cadogan Place. |
| | Christ, the Apostles, bishop, king and an angel with the Shield of the Trinity | Over entrance to Holy Trinity, Sloane Street | 1890 | John Dando Sedding | Architectural sculpture (relief) | | Grade I | |
| More images | Chelsea War Memorial | Sloane Square 51°29′33″N 0°09′25″W﻿ / ﻿51.4926°N 0.1570°W﻿ / 51.4926; -0.1570﻿ (Chelsea War Memorial) | 1920 | Reginald Blomfield | Cross | | Grade II | Unveiled 24 October 1920. Follows Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice design. |
| | Fountain | Wellington Square | 1926 | ? | Fountain with sculpture | | — | |
| | Portrait roundel of William Friese-Greene | King's Road, outside No. 208 | 1934 | Newbury Abbot Trent | Architectural sculpture | | — | |
| | Statue of Nell Gwyn | Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue | | | Architectural sculpture | | — | |
| More images | Venus Fountain | Sloane Square | 1953 | Gilbert Ledward | Fountain with sculpture | Bronze | Grade II | Unveiled 26 October 1953. Architect: Sir Charles Maufe. |
| | Girl with Doves | Cadogan Square | 1970 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze | — | |
| | The Dancers | Cadogan Square | 1971 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze | — | |
| | Dancer with Bird | Cadogan Square | 1974 | David Wynne | Statue | Bronze | — | |
| | Young Girl | Sloane Gardens | 1980 | Karin Jonzen | Statue | Bronze | — | |
| More images | The In-Pensioner | Royal Hospital, North Front | 2000 | Philip Jackson | Statue | Bronze | — | Unveiled 4 May 2000. |
| | My Children | Duke of York Square | 2002 | Allister Bowtell (sculptures), Richard Kindersley (pedestal) | Sculptures | Bronze | — | The two sculptures represent children from the Royal Military Asylum formerly in the square. |
| More images | Statue of Hans Sloane | Duke of York Square | 2005 | Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | Portland stone | — | Unveiled 14 June 2007. |
| More images | In-Pensioner | Royal Hospital, Light Horse Court | 2009 | Mary Catterall | Statue | Bronze | — | A gift of the sculptor. |
| | Chelsea Arts Club frontages | 143 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6EB 51°29′17″N 0°10′29″W﻿ / ﻿51.48806°N 0.17472°W﻿ / 51.48806; -0.17472 | various | various | Murals | | — | |

### Chelsea Embankment

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
| More images | George Sparkes Memorial Drinking Fountain | Cheyne Walk | 1880 | Charles Barry Jr. | Drinking fountain | Granite | — | |
| More images | Statue of Thomas Carlyle | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, west of Oakley Street 51°29′00″N 0°10′09″W﻿ / ﻿51.4832°N 0.1691°W﻿ / 51.4832; -0.1691﻿ (Thomas Carlyle) | 1882 | Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue | Bronze statue on red granite pedestal | Grade II | |
| More images | Memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, outside 16 Cheyne Walk (Rossetti's house) 51°29′01″N 0°09′57″W﻿ / ﻿51.4837°N 0.1658°W﻿ / 51.4837; -0.1658﻿ (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Memorial) | 1887 | Ford Madox Brown (bust) | Drinking fountain with bust | Grey granite and bronze | Grade II | Unveiled 14 July 1887 by William Holman Hunt. Designed by the architect John Pollard Seddon; Rossetti had died in Seddon's cottage in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1882. |
| More images | Carabiniers Boer War Memorial | Built into the railings of Ranelagh Gardens, opposite Chelsea Bridge | 1905 | Adrian Jones | Screen with relief panels | Red brick, Portland stone and bronze | — | |
| More images | Awakening | Roper's Gardens | 1915 | Gilbert Ledward | Statue | Bronze | — | Installed on this site in 1965. |
| More images | Atalanta | Near Albert Bridge | 1929 | Francis Derwent Wood | Statue | Bronze | Grade II | Based on a plaster sculpture of 1907 and one in marble of 1909. A bronze was installed on this site in 1929. |
| More images | Woman Removing Her Dress | Roper's Gardens | 1950 | Jacob Epstein | Bas relief | Portland stone | — | Unveiled 3 June 1972. |
| More images | Statue of Thomas More | Outside Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk | 1968 | Leslie Cubitt Bevis | Statue | | — | Unveiled 21 July 1969. |
| More images | The Boy David | Chelsea Embankment Gardens, east of Oakley Street | 1971 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall after Francis Derwent Wood | Statuette on column | Fibreglass statuette on a pink granite column | — | Unveiled 8 May 1971. Previously Wood's half-size model of the figure for his Machine Gun Corps Memorial stood here; this was stolen in 1969. |
| More images | Boy with a Dolphin | Cheyne Walk, corner of Oakley Street | 1974 | David Wynne | Sculptural group | Bronze | — | Unveiled 13 October 1975. |
| More images | Statue of James McNeill Whistler | Whistler's Reach, near Battersea Bridge | 2003 | Nicholas Dimbleby | Statue | Bronze | — | Unveiled 15 September 2005. |
| More images | Bust of Ralph Vaughan Williams | Chelsea Embankment Gardens | 2012 | Marcus Cornish | Bust | | — | Unveiled 5 September 2012. |
| More images | Statue of Hans Sloane | Chelsea Physic Garden | 2014 | Simon Smith after John Michael Rysbrack | Statue | Portland stone | — | Unveiled 28 April 2014 by Lord Cadogan, a descendant of Sloane's. Based on Rysbrack's marble original of 1733, moved from this site to the British Museum in 1983. This replica is the third to stand here; its predecessors in fibreglass and jesmonite both deteriorated quickly. |

## Kensington

    See the list of public art in Kensington and the list of public art in Kensington Gardens.

## Knightsbridge

    See the list of public art in Knightsbridge.

## Ladbroke Grove

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Memorial to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash | Canal Way | 2001 | Richard Healy | Stele | — | |