List of public art in Paddington

This is a list of public artworks in the former Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in London, now a part of the City of Westminster. Architectural sculpture in the area is covered in the list of architectural sculpture in the City of Westminster.

Bayswater

Bayswater is a largely residential district north-west of Charing Cross, bordering with the northern end of Kensington Gardens. Its essential character is now defined by the stuccoed terraces erected from 1827 onwards, which spread in a westerly direction over the course of the 19th century.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Eagle	Orme Square	1814			Sculpture on pillar		The square is named after Edward Orme, a Bond Street print seller, who also sold two ship-loads of building gravel to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, when he visited London in 1814, and Orme built the square in the same year. The eagle dates from then. Its meaning is a mystery; it is not the eagle from the Orme family crest, and has only one head, so is definitely not the Russian imperial eagle.
	War memorial	St John’s Church, Hyde Park Crescent	after 1919			Cross		Commemorates parishioners who died in World War I.
	Memorial Cross Statues of Saints George, Louis, Maurice, Longinus, Adrian, Florian and Eustace	Lancaster Gate	1921	Lawrence A. Turner	Walter Tapper	Memorial		Unveiled 27 March 1921. Commemorates residents of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington who gave their lives in World War I. Severely damaged in the Great Storm of 1987. Re-erected on present site on 11 November 2002.
	Memorial to Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath	Lancaster Gate	1934	Joseph Hermon Cawthra		Memorial	Grade II	Unveiled 24 May 1934. The inscription on the east face reads, "One King, One Empire, Empire Day"; that on the north, "To him the British Empire was a goodly heritage to be fashioned unto a city of God!"
	Coronation of the Virgin	Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Queensway	mid–late 20th century			Mosaic	Grade II (with church)	Donated by Mrs Catherine Weston. Built as the United Methodist Free Church, the church was converted to Catholic use in 1954.
	Tempesta	The Lancasters, Bayswater Road	2012 (unveiled)	Helaine Blumenfeld		Sculpture		Unveiled 2 May 2012. Carved from Carrara marble at Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, the work stands at 4m high.
	Skanderbeg	Lady Samuel’s Garden, Inverness Terrace	2012			Bust		Unveiled 28 November 2012. Marks the centenary of Albanian independence.

Maida Vale

Maida Vale is an area of residential terraces and mansion blocks, defined at its southern end by the Regent’s and Grand Union Canals.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Memorial cross	St Mark’s Church, Hamilton Terrace	after 1918			War memorial		Commemorates parishioners who died in World War I.
	System No. 12	4 Maida Vale	2006	Julian Wild	EDCO Design	Sculpture		A commission by the property developers Crest Nicholson.
	Mural	Westminster Drug Project, Harrow Road	2009	"Bleach", "Busk" and "Zadok" (from the Elsewhere Collective)		Mural

Paddington

Paddington is the area west of Marylebone, in the postal district W2. Much of the recent public art in the area is connected to the Paddington Waterside developments.

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Sarah Siddons	Paddington Green	1897	Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud		Statue	Grade II	14 June 1897 by Sir Henry Irving. Modelled after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783), now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Siddons attended St Mary’s Church on the Green and is buried in the churchyard, near her statue.
	War memorial	St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Rowington Close	after 1918		Martin Travers	Crucifix
More images	Great Western Railway War Memorial	Facing Platform 1, Paddington station	1922	Charles Sargeant Jagger	Thomas S. Tait	Stone screen with statue	Grade I (with station)	Unveiled 11 November 1922 (Armistice Day) by Viscount Churchill. The figure of a soldier stands reading a letter from home in front of a panel of black marble, suggesting the entrance to a trench dugout.
	World War II Memorial Gates	Norfolk Place, between St Mary's Hospital and medical school	1950 (unveiled)	Charles Wheeler		Wrought iron gates		Unveiled 20 July 1950.
	Paddington Boy Scouts Memorial	Paddington Recreation Ground	1952 (unveiled)			Memorial		Commemorates the Boy Scouts of Paddington killed in World War II. The symbol of a circle with a dot in the centre is a sign used by Scouts meaning "gone home".
	Murals	Westway flyover, near Royal Oak tube station	1976–7	Public Art Workshop (Desmond Rochford and David Savage)				Dedicated "to the working people of Paddington", these were, at the time of their completion, the largest exterior murals in England. A critic for the Observer noted shortly after their completion that "a large dose of social realism has done wonders for the grey desert of Royal Oak".
More images	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	Paddington station	1982	John Doubleday		Statue		Unveiled 26 May 1982. One of two statues of Brunel commissioned by the Bristol & West building society; its companion, a standing figure, was unveiled in Bristol the same day. Originally stood on the main concourse at the entrance to the Underground; relocated in 1998.
	Tile motifs	Paddington station	1984–7	David Hamilton		Overprinted industrial ceramic tiles		The scheme reproduces patent drawings for Sir Marc Isambard Brunel’s early tunnelling shield for the Thames Tunnel, a precursor to those used for the London Underground.
120x120px	The Messenger	In front of St Mary’s Hospital, South Wharf Road	1993	Allan Sly		Statue
	Walking Man and Standing Man	PaddingtonCentral	1998 and 2000	Sean Henry		Statues
	Paddington Bear	Paddington station	2000	Marcus Cornish		Statue		Unveiled 24 February 2000 by Michael Bond, the character’s creator. Represents his first appearance in A Bear Called Paddington (1958), sitting on a battered suitcase with a label round his neck reading "Please look after this bear. Thank you."
	The Family	PaddingtonCentral (Sheldon Square)	2001	Jon Buck		Sculptural group
	Untitled (Yellow)	PaddingtonCentral (One Kingdom Street)	2001	Stephen Gontarski		Sculpture		Made of glass fibre painted bright yellow and lacquered, the sculpture is intended to invite a "corporeal reception by the public" and to "create a heart in the midst of an urban setting."
	Lock, Level, Line	West End Quay, Paddington Basin	2004	Danny Lane		Sculptures		The work consists of four towers made from stacked corten steel and layered glass, which are intended to reflect the changing levels of water in the lock.
	Clove 2007	Cleveland Terrace	2007	Bryan Kneale		Sculpture
	Billy Bob & Mishke	PaddingtonCentral	2008	Gary Webb		Sculpture		Pendant sculptures, located in water features at the extreme edge of the PaddingtonCentral development, of metal frameworks which support "blobs" of steel, painted in bright colours.
	Europea 1 and Europea 2	PaddingtonCentral	2008	John Aiken		Sculptures		Twin sculptures fashioned from Portuguese silver-grey granite with coloured enamel panels attached.
	Panels	Lindo Wing, St Mary’s Hospital	2012	Julian Opie		Panels		Opie wished to go against the general trend of artworks in hospitals by producing works with the aim "not to calm but rather to enliven".
	Mary Seacole, Alan Turing and Michael Bond (pictured)	St Mary’s Square	2013			Statues		Three two-dimensional steel statues of notable people who lived (or in Bond’s case, still live) in Paddington, as voted for by local residents. From the Portrait Bench series of similar sculptures, commissioned by the charity Sustrans to stand along new cycling routes.
	Sir Simon Milton	Merchant Square	2014	Bruce Denny		Statue		Unveiled 11 September 2014 by Eric Pickles. Milton played an instrumental role in the regeneration of Paddington Basin and was a friend of the sculptor.
	Mural	Grand Union Canal		Kevin Herlihy		Mural		Made of debris collected by Stowe Youth Club.