# List of public art in Covent Garden

This is a list of public art in Covent Garden, a district in the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden.
Map of public art in Covent Garden

## City of Westminster

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
| More images | Augustus Harris Memorial Drinking Fountain | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Catherine Street) 51°30′46″N 0°07′15″W﻿ / ﻿51.5128°N 0.1207°W﻿ / 51.5128; -0.1207﻿ (Augustus Harris drainking fountain) | 1897 | Thomas Brock | Sidney R. J. Smith | Wall monument with drinking fountain and sculpture | Grade I | Unveiled 1 November 1897. The bust of Harris is in a niche flanked by brackets adorned with a Masonic motif. Below is a relief of infants personifying Comedy and Tragedy, reclining over a rusticated basement, within which are a lion's head water spout and basins. A lyre crowns the pediment and other musical instruments are represented in bronze reliefs on the columns. |
| | Memorial to David Garrick | 27 Southampton Street 51°30′40″N 0°07′21″W﻿ / ﻿51.5112°N 0.1224°W﻿ / 51.5112; -0.1224﻿ (Memorial to David Garrick) | 1901 | Henry Charles Fehr | Charles Fitzroy Doll | Plaque with relief sculpture | — | A profile portrait of the actor is flanked by figures of the Tragic and Comic Muses. Inscribed DAVID GARRICK/ LIVED HERE/ 1750–1772/ ΜΕΛΠΟΜΕΝΗ/ ΘΑΛΕΙΑ |
| More images | Young Dancer | Broad Court, off Bow Street 51°30′49″N 0°07′21″W﻿ / ﻿51.5136°N 0.1225°W﻿ / 51.5136; -0.1225﻿ (Young Dancer) | 1988 | Enzo Plazzotta | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 16 May 1988. A gift to Westminster City Council by the sculptor's estate. |
| | Neptune Fountain | Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′41″N 0°07′25″W﻿ / ﻿51.5114°N 0.1235°W﻿ / 51.5114; -0.1235﻿ (Neptune Fountain) | 1995 | Philip Thomason | Donald Insall | Fountain with sculpture | — | Part of the southern gate of the church, reconstructed to Inigo Jones's design after it had been removed in 1877. The material used is a very close match to Coade stone, the recipe for which has been lost. |
| | Sculpture | Maiden Lane 51°30′38″N 0°07′25″W﻿ / ﻿51.5105°N 0.1236°W﻿ / 51.5105; -0.1236﻿ (Eamonn Hughes sculpture on Maiden Lane) | 1998 | Eamonn Hughes | — | Sculpture | — | |
| | Market Memorial | Southampton Street 51°30′41″N 0°07′21″W﻿ / ﻿51.5115°N 0.1225°W﻿ / 51.5115; -0.1225﻿ (Covent Garden Market Memorial) | 2006 | Glynis Jones Owen | Covent Garden Housing Project Architects | Bronze relief panel | — | Commemorates the fruit traders who worked at Covent Garden Market from 1670 to 1974. The deliberately crude style is intended to be in the spirit of the chapbooks popular in the 18th century. |
| More images | The Conversion of Saint Paul | Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′42″N 0°07′26″W﻿ / ﻿51.5117°N 0.1238°W﻿ / 51.5117; -0.1238﻿ (The Conversion of St Paul) | 2010 | Bruce Denny | — | Equestrian sculpture | — | Unveiled 20 March 2015 by Judi Dench. Originally commissioned for an exhibition of 2010 marking the tercentenary of the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral. |
| More images | Memorial to Agatha Christie | Corner of Great Newport Street and Cranbourn Street 51°30′42″N 0°07′39″W﻿ / ﻿51.5118°N 0.1274°W﻿ / 51.5118; -0.1274﻿ (Memorial to Agatha Christie) | 2012 | Ben Twiston-Davies | — | Memorial with sculpture | — | Unveiled 18 November 2012. Marks the 60th year of the run of Christie's play The Mousetrap, the longest in theatrical history, which is staged nearby at St Martin's Theatre. The memorial takes the form of a book as Christie is also the world's best-selling novelist. Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, the Orient Express and a country house are depicted in relief on the book's cover. |
| | Diamond Jubilee Memorial Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II | Churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′41″N 0°07′25″W﻿ / ﻿51.5115°N 0.1236°W﻿ / 51.5115; -0.1236﻿ (Diamond Jubilee labyrinth) | 2012 | ? | — | Relief set into pavement | — | A small, brick labyrinth encircling a relief of an over-sized coin. |
| More images | Powerhouse | Bull Inn Court | 2013 | John Atkin | — | Relief attached to building | — | The cogs represent the power station of the Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company that was on this site. |

## London Borough of Camden

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Drinking fountain Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria | High Holborn 51°30′58″N 0°07′35″W﻿ / ﻿51.5160°N 0.1263°W﻿ / 51.5160; -0.1263﻿ (Drinking Fountain) | 1897 | ? | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | Presented by the St Giles Board of Works through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. |
| More images | Drama Through the Ages | Former Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue | 1930–1931 c. 1930–1931 | Gilbert Bayes | T. P. Bennett & Son | Frieze | Grade II | A pageant of figures including Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, a Greek chorus, Shake­speare­an char­act­ers, the Chester players, Bacch­an­al­ian dancers, a har­le­quin­ade and a chorus line. |
| | Roundels | Former Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue | 1930–1931 c. 1930–1931 | Gilbert Bayes | T. P. Bennett & Son | Reliefs | Grade II | Five overlapping pairs of roundels re­pre­sent­ing artistic eras: Egypt­ian and As­syr­ian; Roman and Grecian; It­alian Re­naiss­ance and Medi­eval; Elizabethan and Georgian; and Pomp­a­dour­ian and Vict­or­ian. |
| More images | Seven Dials Monument | Seven Dials 51°30′50″N 0°07′37″W﻿ / ﻿51.5138°N 0.1270°W﻿ / 51.5138; -0.1270﻿ (Seven Dials monument) | 1988–1989 | — | Andrew ("Red") Mason after Edward Pierce | Column | — | Unveiled 29 June 1989 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of William III and Mary II's accession. The original Sundial Pillar was erected by Thomas Neale in the early 1690s; it was pulled down in 1773 in order to deter "undesirables" from congregating around it. |
| More images | ob 08 | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street 51°30′57″N 0°07′41″W﻿ / ﻿51.5158°N 0.1280°W﻿ / 51.5158; -0.1280﻿ (ob 08) | 2008 | Steven Gontarski | — | Sculpture | — | The bright red abstract sculpture, which stands 5 metres high, is made of painted and lacquered glass-fibre-reinforced plastic. Gontarski wished to "create a heart in the midst of an urban development". |
| | William | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street 51°30′57″N 0°07′38″W﻿ / ﻿51.5158°N 0.1273°W﻿ / 51.5158; -0.1273﻿ (William) | 2010 | Rebecca Warren | — | Sculpture | — | Adapted from a smaller work by the sculptor also titled William. The fluid, anonymous figure is intended to "speak of the ever-shifting present" and not of the past, and thus have the opposite qualities to most public sculpture. |
| More images | Family: from another place | Action for Children headquarters, Great Queen Street 51°30′58″N 0°07′14″W﻿ / ﻿51.51598°N 0.12048°W﻿ / 51.51598; -0.12048﻿ (Family: from another place) | 2010 | David Worthington | — | Sculpture | — | Seven sculptures made from red Iranian travertine. |