This is alist of public art inCovent Garden, a district in theCity of Westminster and theLondon Borough of Camden.
| 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″N0°07′15″W / 51.5128°N 0.1207°W /51.5128; -0.1207 (Augustus Harris drinking 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 bybrackets adorned witha Masonic motif. Below is a relief of infants personifying Comedy and Tragedy, reclining over arusticated basement, within which are a lion's head water spout and basins. Alyre crowns thepediment and other musical instruments are represented in bronze reliefs on the columns.[1] |
 | Memorial toDavid Garrick | 27Southampton Street 51°30′40″N0°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 | N/a | A profile portrait of the actor is flanked by figures of theTragic andComic Muses. InscribedDAVID GARRICK/ LIVED HERE/ 1750–1772/ΜΕΛΠΟΜΕΝΗ/ΘΑΛΕΙΑ[2] |
.jpg) More images | Young Dancer | Broad Court, offBow Street 51°30′49″N0°07′21″W / 51.5136°N 0.1225°W /51.5136; -0.1225 (Young Dancer) | 1988 | Enzo Plazzotta | N/a | Statue | N/a | Unveiled 16 May 1988. A gift to Westminster City Council by the sculptor's estate.[3] |
 | Neptune Fountain | Churchyard ofSt Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′41″N0°07′25″W / 51.5114°N 0.1235°W /51.5114; -0.1235 (Neptune Fountain) | 1995 | Philip Thomason | Donald Insall | Fountain with sculpture | N/a | Part of the southern gate of the church, reconstructed toInigo Jones's design after it had been removed in 1877. The material used is a very close match toCoade stone,[4] the recipe for which has been lost. |
.jpg) | Sculpture | Maiden Lane 51°30′38″N0°07′25″W / 51.5105°N 0.1236°W /51.5105; -0.1236 (Eamonn Hughes sculpture on Maiden Lane) | 1998 | Eamonn Hughes | N/a | Sculpture | N/a | [5] |
 More images | Market Memorial | Southampton Street 51°30′41″N0°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 | N/a | Commemorates the fruit traders who worked atCovent Garden Market from 1670 to 1974. The deliberately crude style is intended to be in the spirit of thechapbooks popular in the 18th century.[6][7] |
.jpg) More images | The Conversion of Saint Paul | Churchyard ofSt Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′42″N0°07′26″W / 51.5117°N 0.1238°W /51.5117; -0.1238 (The Conversion of St Paul) | 2010 | Bruce Denny | N/a | Equestrian sculpture | N/a | Unveiled 20 March 2015 byJudi Dench.[8] Originally commissioned for an exhibition of 2010 marking the tercentenary of the rebuilding ofSt Paul's Cathedral.[9] |
.jpg) More images | Memorial toAgatha Christie | Corner of Great Newport Street and Cranbourn Street 51°30′42″N0°07′39″W / 51.5118°N 0.1274°W /51.5118; -0.1274 (Memorial to Agatha Christie) | 2012 | Ben Twiston-Davies | N/a | Memorial with sculpture | N/a | Unveiled 18 November 2012. Marks the 60th year of the run of Christie's playThe Mousetrap, the longest in theatrical history, which is staged nearby atSt Martin's Theatre. The memorial takes the form of a book as Christie is also the world's best-selling novelist.[10]Miss Marple,Hercule Poirot, theOrient Express and a country house are depicted in relief on the book's cover.[11] |
.jpg) | Diamond Jubilee Memorial Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II | Churchyard ofSt Paul's, Covent Garden 51°30′41″N0°07′25″W / 51.5115°N 0.1236°W /51.5115; -0.1236 (Diamond Jubilee labyrinth) | 2012 | ? | N/a | Relief set into pavement | N/a | A small, brick labyrinth encircling a relief of an over-sized coin.[12] |
%2c_Bull_Inn_Court%2c_Covent_Garden%2c_March_2024_01.jpg) More images | Powerhouse | Bull Inn Court | 2013 | John Atkin | N/a | Relief attached to building | N/a | The cogs represent the power station of the Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company that was on this site.[13] |
 More images | The Dorothea Dorothea of Caesarea | Mercer Walk | 2017 | Jill Watson | N/a | Relief attached to building | N/a | Unveiled 2017. Dedicated toDorothea of Caesarea, the patron saint of orchards. Situated on land donated to theWorshipful Company of Mercers in 1530 byJoan Leche, Lady Bradbury, widow of Mercer andLord Mayor of London Thomas Bradbury. |
| 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″N0°07′35″W / 51.5160°N 0.1263°W /51.5160; -0.1263 (Drinking Fountain) | 1897 | ? | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | Presented by theSt Giles Board of Works through theMetropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.[14] |
 More images | Drama Through the Ages | FormerSaville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue | 1930–1931 c. 1930–1931 | Gilbert Bayes | T. P. Bennett & Son | Frieze | Grade II | A pageant of figures includingSybil Thorndike asSaint Joan, aGreek chorus,Shakespearean characters, theChester players,Bacchanalian dancers, aharlequinade and achorus line.[15] |
%2c_June_2018.jpg) | Roundels | FormerSaville 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 andAssyrian;Roman andGrecian;Italian Renaissance andMedieval;Elizabethan andGeorgian; andPompadourian andVictorian.[15] |
 More images | Seven Dials Monument | Seven Dials 51°30′50″N0°07′37″W / 51.5138°N 0.1270°W /51.5138; -0.1270 (Seven Dials monument) | 1988–1989 | N/a | Andrew ("Red") MasonafterEdward Pierce | Column | N/a | Unveiled 29 June 1989 by QueenBeatrix of the Netherlands, as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary ofWilliam III andMary II's accession. The original Sundial Pillar was erected byThomas Neale in the early 1690s; it was pulled down in 1773 in order to deter "undesirables" from congregating around it.[16] |
 More images | ob 08 | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street 51°30′57″N0°07′41″W / 51.5158°N 0.1280°W /51.5158; -0.1280 (ob 08) | 2008 | Steven Gontarski | N/a | Sculpture | N/a | 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".[17] |
 | William | Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street 51°30′57″N0°07′38″W / 51.5158°N 0.1273°W /51.5158; -0.1273 (William) | 2010 | Rebecca Warren | N/a | Sculpture | N/a | Adapted from a smaller work by the sculptor also titledWilliam. 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.[17][18] |
 More images | Family: from another place | Action for Children headquarters,Great Queen Street 51°30′58″N0°07′14″W / 51.51598°N 0.12048°W /51.51598; -0.12048 (Family: from another place) | 2010 | David Worthington | N/a | Sculpture | N/a | Seven sculptures made from red Iraniantravertine.[19] |
