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List of public art in the City of London

List of public art in the City of London

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This is a list of public art in the City of London, including statues, busts, commemorative plaques and other memorials.

The Temple Bar Marker

The City of London is the historic nucleus of London as well as its modern financial centre. The City of London Corporation, its municipal governing body, states that "around almost every corner in the City you will find an unusual piece of public art or a commemoration of the City's great history".[1] This article lists the various permanent works of public art by the ward in which they are located.

In the 19th century, sculpture was incorporated into major engineering schemes such as the Victoria Embankment and the Holborn Viaduct. Entrances to the City are marked by statues of dragons (often mistakenly called griffins)[2] bearing the City's shield. The most elaborate of these is the Temple Bar Marker of 1880, which replaced a gate to the City, while two on the Victoria Embankment were originally made for the Coal Exchange building in 1849, and were repurposed as boundary markers in 1963.

Since 2010, the City has hosted an annual exhibition of public sculpture, called "Sculpture in the City".[3]

Map of public art in the City of London

Aldersgate

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Aldgate

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Bassishaw

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Billingsgate

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Bishopsgate

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Broadgate

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Liverpool Street station

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Bread Street

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One New Change

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Bridge and Bridge Without

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Broad Street

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Candlewick

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Castle Baynard

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Eastern end of Fleet Street to Ludgate Circus

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St Paul's Cathedral

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St Paul's Churchyard

See also Emily Young's Angel series above, in the ward of Bread Street
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Cheap

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Coleman Street

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Chartered Accountants' Hall

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Cordwainer

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Cornhill

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Gibson Hall

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Cripplegate

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Dowgate

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Farringdon Within

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Old Bailey

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St Bartholomew-the-Great

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Farringdon Without

Chancery Lane

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Fetter Lane

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Holborn

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Smithfield

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Temple and western end of Fleet Street

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Victoria Embankment

Langbourn

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Lime Street

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Portsoken

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Queenhithe

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Tower

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Vintry

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Walbrook

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Bank of England

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