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Serenity in the City: Karin Jonzen's sculptures
Four works by the 20th century sculptor in the City of London. One of the pleasures of walking around the Square Mile is the wide variety...
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London On The Ground
- May 27
- 3 min
Fire, Air, Water and Earth: stone relief for Lloyd's
Fire, Air, Water and Earth: stone relief for Lloyd's. The carving, in a hidden City of London alleyway, represents the Four Elements.
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London On The Ground
- Mar 16
- 5 min
Senate House: Stalinist or Art Deco?
The University of London's 1937 landmark by Charles Holden: views differ. Senate House in Bloomsbury is the administrative centre of the...
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London On The Ground
- Mar 4
- 5 min
St Olaf House: an Art Deco classic at Hay's Wharf
Striking 1930s entrance hall and staircase, sculpted river front panels and other fine architectural details. I recently took some...
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London On The Ground
- Feb 24
- 6 min
The Royal Exchange frieze: a freeze frame of history
Sculptures on the Victorian building tell of the City of London's past It is easy to miss the sculpted details on the the Royal Exchange,...
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London On The Ground
- Feb 2
- 6 min
Temple Bar Memorial: Victorian delights you may not have noticed
The fearsome dragon is impressive, but the plinth contains hidden treasures. Temple Bar Memorial, where The Strand becomes Fleet Street,...
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London On The Ground
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Frederic Leighton's art at Leighton House
An excellent collection of 19th century paintings and sculpture by Frederic Leighton. The painter, draughtsman and sculptor was one of...
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London On The Ground
- Nov 24, 2023
- 3 min
Angel Wings sculpture: not just for Christmas
Angel Wings is a year-round 'Christmas decoration' on an epic scale, a play on the Angel Islington's name and link to the Nativity story.
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London On The Ground
- Nov 5, 2023
- 7 min
Shakespeare in Shoreditch: a statue and The Stage
A statue and visitor centre for The Theatre and The Curtain playhouse sites. The Theatre and The Curtain, both in Shoreditch, were...
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London On The Ground
- Sep 15, 2023
- 3 min
A quartet of carved clergy: the Bishops' Tree at Fulham Palace
Four wooden Bishops await visitors to the gardens of Fulham Palace.
Environmental sculptor Andrew Frost carved them from a dead cedar tree
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London On The Ground
- Jun 10, 2023
- 4 min
Sanctuary, Naomi Blake's sculpture for victims of oppression
A moving sculpted art work sits alone outside St Botolph Aldgate in the City of London. Walks and tours available for booking The London...
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London On The Ground
- Apr 7, 2023
- 5 min
Emily Young's serene stone angels near St Paul's need to be seen
See the angel heads by Britain's "greatest living stone sculptor" on public display next to St Paul's. Five angel heads by Emily Young,...
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London On The Ground
- Mar 10, 2023
- 4 min
Tim Crawley's City of London stone sculptures
The City of London boasts fine examples of work by Tim Crawley, one of the UK's foremost sculptors of stone. Tim Crawley describes...
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London On The Ground
- Feb 24, 2023
- 5 min
Ludgate, London, Lud and legend
Lud, a pre-Roman ancient Briton, founded London, according to legend. There is a very old legend that a king called Lud ruled in ancient...
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London On The Ground
- Nov 25, 2022
- 4 min
The City of London's only modern sculpture of school children
Andrew F Brown's bronze on Newgate Street immortalises the 470 year old 'Bluecoat school'. The sculpture commemorates Christ's Hospital,...
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London On The Ground
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
The delicate terracotta Cutlers
An exquisitely shaped frieze depicting skilled craftsmen adorns a red brick Victorian building in the City of London. The building is...
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London On The Ground
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
Seven Ages of Man: Shakespeare, BT & brutalism
Shakespeare's 'All the world's a stage' inspired a 22ft sculpture at BT's brutalist City of London building. The statue, entitled 'Seven...
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London On The Ground
- Feb 4, 2022
- 7 min
Old Queens: Ten of Six in the City
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee prompts a look at ten public statues of six past queens in the City of London. By my count, ten statues of...
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London On The Ground
- Dec 10, 2021
- 4 min
London knights: Cnihtengild statue guards Devonshire Square
Unusual bronze sculpture evokes a guild of knights of 1,000 years ago. This impressive work of art in the east of the City of London was...
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London On The Ground
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Monument to the slave trade: Gilt of Cain in Fen Court
A poem and sculpture hidden away in the City of London commemorates the abolition of the slave trade. Sculpted by Michael Visocchi with...
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