List of public art in Somerset

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Districts of Somerset
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Map of districts of Somerset.
1 Somerset
2 North Somerset
3 Bath and North East Somerset

This is a list of public art in the Somerset county of England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.

The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of three unitary authorities, Somerset (administered by Somerset Council), North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.[1]

Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.[2] It occupies an area of 220 square miles (570 km2), two-thirds of which is green belt.[3] BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.[3] The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley. BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.[3]

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
DateArtist / designerTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignationOwner / administratorWikidata Notes

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Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument Lansdown Hill

51°25′53″N 2°23′58″W / 51.431389°N 2.399444°W / 51.431389; -2.399444
1720 Ashlar stone masonry,25 feet (8 m) high. Grade II* listed building, scheduled monument[4][5][6][7]Q7526126

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Frederick, Prince of Wales Queen Square, Bath 1738John Wood, the Elder ObeliskStone15m tall Grade II* listed building Shortened after a gale in 1815.[8][9]

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Queen Victoria Jubilee Obelisk Royal Victoria Park, Bath

51°23′10″N 2°22′23″W / 51.3862°N 2.3731°W / 51.3862; -2.3731
1837G.P. Manners (architect) ObeliskStone Grade II*Q1752215

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Edward VII Parade Gardens, Bath c.1911Newbury Abbot Trent[10] Statue on pedestalBronze & Portland stone Grade IIQ26673296
Jupiter Royal Victoria Park, Bath

51°23′10″N 2°22′23″W / 51.3862°N 2.3731°W / 51.3862; -2.3731
1839John Osborne Bath StoneHead 183 centimetres (72 in) high. Base and pedestal 600 centimetres (240 in) high.[11]
Memorial to the 1968 flood By the River Chew in Woollard

51°22′42″N 2°31′47″W / 51.3784°N 2.5298°W / 51.3784; -2.5298
Stone, from destroyed bridge and plaque
Sham Castle Bathampton

51°22′57″N 2°20′15″W / 51.3825°N 2.3375°W / 51.3825; -2.3375
1755Sanderson Miller Stone Grade II* listed buildingQ7487351
Medici lions Royal Victoria Park, Bath

51°23′03″N 2°21′53″W / 51.3843°N 2.3646°W / 51.3843; -2.3646

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Rebecca Fountain Beside Bath Abbey 1859, erected 1861Rushton Walker of Bristol Sculpture and fountainStone and marble Grade IIQ26674838 [12]

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Queen Victoria Exterior of Victoria Art Gallery, Bath c.1897Andrea Carlo Lucchesi Sculpture and surroundStone [13]
Fossil Tree milepost on National Cycle Route 24 Near Radstock

51°17′50″N 2°25′29″W / 51.2972°N 2.4247°W / 51.2972; -2.4247
John Mills
Somerset coalfield Radstock

51°17′37″N 2°26′55″W / 51.2936°N 2.4485°W / 51.2936; -2.4485

North Somerset

Somerset (district)

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