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This is a list of public art in Westminster, a district in the City of Westminster, London. The area's main sculptural showcase is Parliament Square, conceived in the 1860s to improve the setting of the rebuilt Palace of Westminster, to ease traffic flow and as a site for commemorating politicians of note. Carlo Marochetti's statues of the engineers Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel were initially considered for the square, but were rejected as not fitting in with the political theme. (They were ultimately erected outside Euston station and on the Victoria Embankment.) The square took on its present configuration in a refurbishment of 1949–50 by the architect George Grey Wornum, though four statues of twentieth-century figures have since been added.

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  • This is a list of public art in Westminster, a district in the City of Westminster, London. The area's main sculptural showcase is Parliament Square, conceived in the 1860s to improve the setting of the rebuilt Palace of Westminster, to ease traffic flow and as a site for commemorating politicians of note. Carlo Marochetti's statues of the engineers Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel were initially considered for the square, but were rejected as not fitting in with the political theme. (They were ultimately erected outside Euston station and on the Victoria Embankment.) The square took on its present configuration in a refurbishment of 1949–50 by the architect George Grey Wornum, though four statues of twentieth-century figures have since been added. Another two political memorials (one of which, the Buxton Memorial Fountain, was moved by Wornum from Parliament Square) and The Burghers of Calais, a work on an historical theme by Auguste Rodin, are to be found in Victoria Tower Gardens. As the memorials therein all touch on the theme of opposition to injustice, the gardens have been described by David Adjaye, the designer of a projected national Holocaust memorial for that location, as a "park of Britain's conscience". (en)
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  • Statue of Queen Anne, Queen Anne's Gate, London (en)
  • Statue of Millicent Fawcett (en)
  • Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial, London (en)
  • Jubilee Fountain, Westminster (en)
  • Lines for The Supreme Court by Andrew Motion, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (en)
  • Knife Edge Two Piece - Henry Moore (en)
  • Oliver Cromwell statue, Westminster (en)
  • Statue of George V in Westminster (en)
  • Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Westminster Scholars War Memorial (en)
  • Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of David Lloyd George, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of the Earl of Derby, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of Lord Palmerston, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of Benjamin Disraeli, Parliament Square, London (en)
  • Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London (en)
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  • A group depicting the crucified Christ with the Good and Bad Thieves, donated to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey in 1993. (en)
  • Initially a statue of Peel was commissioned from Carlo Marochetti. This was ready by 1853 but was considered to be far too large. Marochetti produced a smaller work which was placed at the entrance to New Palace Yard; this was removed in 1868 and melted down in 1874. (en)
  • A replacement for a 19th-century fountain which had become derelict. Installed as part of the redevelopment of the Westminster Hospital site. (en)
  • Given by Henry Gage Spicer, the director of a paper firm, for the poor children of the area who used the Gardens as a playground. The extent of "Miss Harris's" involvement in the art deco sculptures is questionable. (en)
  • Commemorates Lord Raglan and other ex-pupils of Westminster School who died in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Sculptures represent Saint George and the Dragon, Edward the Confessor and Henry III , Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. (en)
  • Parliament's gift to the Queen on her Golden Jubilee. The inscription around the rim is from Henry VI, Part 3: (en)
  • Commemorates the 120 parishioners of the church who died in World War I. (en)
  • Four marble statues from the altarpiece of the Catholic chapel at the Palace of Whitehall, commissioned by James II and designed by Christopher Wren. The altarpiece was dismantled after the Whitehall Palace fire of 1695. These fragments are in very poor condition. (en)
  • Commissioned by the Vincent Square Residents Association to mark the bicentenary of the square's creation as playing fields for Westminster School, of which Dean Vincent was headmaster. Based on a portrait by William Owen and inscribed , an oft-heard utterance of the Dean's. (en)
  • Erected in Parliament Square in 1865–66. Commissioned by Charles Buxton as a memorial to his father Sir Thomas Buxton and his colleagues in the Abolitionist movement, particularly those associated with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Removed in 1949 and re-erected on this site in 1957. (en)
  • Awarded the Royal Society of British Sculptors' silver medal in 1987. (en)
  • Gigantic sculptures of English fruit, made to appear as if they have fallen from the plane trees nearby. The scheme won the UK Landscape Award for Artworks in 2012. (en)
  • Unveiled July 1920. A replica of the statue of Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Initially the statue was to be erected in 1914, but this was postponed until 1917. By that time some favoured an alternative statue by George Grey Barnard; this was eventually erected in Manchester. (en)
  • The London Underground roundel in the pan-African colours, with 54 stars representing the countries of Africa. (en)
  • The complete text of a poem by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, which he also read out at the Supreme Court's opening ceremony. (en)
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