List of public art in Knightsbridge

This is a list of public art in Knightsbridge, a district in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.

Map of public art in Knightsbridge

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Stags	Albert Gate 51°30′09″N 0°09′31″W	before 1839	Peter Turnerelli after Francesco Bartolozzi	Thomas Cubitt	Statues on gateposts	Grade II	Formerly stood at the Piccadilly entrance to the Deputy Ranger's Lodge in Green Park; Cubitt acquired the stags prior to the building's demolition. The gates and stone piers are twentieth-century replacements for Cubitt's originals of 1844–1845.^[1]
	Drinking fountain	Outside The Lanesborough 51°30′07″N 0°09′09″W	1860	?	N/a	Drinking fountain	Grade II* (with old hospital building)	One of the earliest gifts of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association; the hotel building behind was originally St George's Hospital, which was felt to be a particularly appropriate location for a drinking fountain.^[2]
	Pediment sculpture	Hyde Park Barracks, South Carriage Drive	1878–1880 c. 1878–1880	Thomas Earp	T. H. Wyatt (original setting); Basil Spence (current setting)	Pediment sculpture	N/a	Salvaged from the riding school of the Victorian Knightsbridge Barracks, which were demolished in 1965.^[3]
	Busts Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, Lord Salisbury and Archbishop Temple	55–91 Knightsbridge	1902–1903 c. 1902–1903	?	W. D. Caröe	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	The block was built on land belonging to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by Caröe, their architect. The busts are in the pediments of the first-floor windows.^[4]
	Triga	1 Knightsbridge Green (formerly Caltex House)	1958	Franta Belsky	Stone, Toms and Partners (1955–1957) Hurley, Robertson and Associates (2001 refurbishment)	Sculptural group	N/a	A reinforced concrete sculpture with metal coating, commemorating Tattersall's racehorse auction yard which formerly stood on this site.^[5]^[6]
More images	The Rush of Green or The Bowater House Group	Edinburgh Gate 51°30′09″N 0°09′44″W	1959	Jacob Epstein	N/a	Sculptural group	Grade II	Unveiled April 1961. A mother, father, child and dog, driven by the sound of Pan's pipes, rush towards Hyde Park. Epstein was adding the finishing touches to the group on the night he died.^[7]
	The Innocence of Childhood	Raphael Street	1998 c. 1998	Richard Kindersley	Hurley, Robertson and Associates	Brick relief	N/a	Showing a child's-eye view of a busy street, the relief has been severely compromised by the insertion of a window and a door in the wall.^[8]
	Hyde Park Gates	Edinburgh Gate 51°30′08″N 0°09′38″W	2010	Wendy Ramshaw	N/a	Gates	N/a	Commissioned from the artist and jeweller as part of the One Hyde Park residential development.^[9]
More images	Search for Enlightenment	One Hyde Park 51°30′09″N 0°09′41″W	2011	Simon Gudgeon	N/a	Sculptures	N/a	Unveiled 19 January 2012 to mark the first anniversary of One Hyde Park.^[10] The developers, Candy & Candy, had previously installed a cast of the work at Riverside Walk Gardens, Millbank, in 2011.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Façade sculpture	Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, south façade	1961	Elisabeth Frink	Michael Rosenhauer	Reliefs	N/a	Eighteen curved, non-geometric shapes in copper set between three columns.^[11] Variously titled Four Season or Bird Forms, this early work of Frink's dissatisfied her soon after its completion and she came to repudiate it.^[12]
	Memorial to the victims of the 1983 Harrods bombing	Harrods	1985	George Cook		Stele and plaque	N/a	The memorial to the police officers killed erected by the Police Memorial Trust, that of the civilians killed by the borough council.^[13]

List of public art in Knightsbridge

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