This is a list of public art in the City of London, including statues, busts, commemorative plaques and other memorials.
The City of London is the historic nucleus of London as well as its modern financial centre. The City of London Corporation, its municipal governing body, states that "around almost every corner in the City you will find an unusual piece of public art or a commemoration of the City's great history".[1] This article lists the various permanent works of public art by the ward in which they are located.
In the 19th century, sculpture was incorporated into major engineering schemes such as the Victoria Embankment and the Holborn Viaduct. Entrances to the City are marked by statues of dragons (often mistakenly called griffins) bearing the City's shield. The most elaborate of these is the Temple Bar Marker of 1880, which replaced a gate to the City, while two on the Victoria Embankment were originally made for the Coal Exchange building in 1849, and were repurposed as boundary markers in 1963.
Since 2010, the City has hosted an annual exhibition of public sculpture, called Sculpture in the City.
See main article: Aldersgate.
See main article: Aldgate.
See main article: Bassishaw.
See main article: Bishopsgate.
See main article: Broadgate.
See main article: Bread Street.
See main article: One New Change.
See main article: Bridge (City of London ward).
See main article: Broad Street (ward).
See main article: Candlewick (ward).
See main article: Castle Baynard.
See main article: Fleet Street and Ludgate Circus.
See main article: St Paul's Cathedral.
See also Emily Young's Angel series above, in the ward of Bread Street
See main article: Cheap (ward).
See main article: Coleman Street Ward.
See main article: Chartered Accountants' Hall.
See main article: Cordwainer (ward).
See main article: Cornhill, London.
See main article: Gibson Hall, London.
See main article: Cripplegate.
See main article: Dowgate.
See main article: Farringdon Within.
See main article: St Bartholomew-the-Great.
See main article: Farringdon Without.
See main article: Chancery Lane.
See main article: Fetter Lane.
See main article: Holborn.
See main article: Smithfield, London.
See main article: Temple, London and Fleet Street.
See main article: Langbourn.
See main article: Lime Street (ward).
See main article: Portsoken.
See main article: Queenhithe.
See main article: Tower (ward).
See main article: Vintry.
See main article: Walbrook.
See main article: Bank of England.